Udaya TV is an Indian

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

language

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channel owned by

Sun TV Network Sun TV Network Limited is a Indian media company, headquartered in Chennai. It is a part of Sun Group and was established on 14 April 1993 by Kalanithi Maran. It owns a variety of television channels and radio stations in multiple languages ...

. Udaya TV is telecast in several nations like India, some

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countries and the United States. Udaya TV was launched on 1 June 1994.

History

Udaya TV was incorporated on 1 June 1994 as a private limited company engaged in television broadcasting with a registered office at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.Financial and other details related to Udaya TV are mentioned in It was launched by the chairman of Sun TV,

Kalanithi Maran Kalanithi Maran (born 24 July 1964) is an Indian billionaire media proprietor. He is the chairman and founder of Sun Group, one of India's largest media conglomerates. He owns multiple television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio station ...

, and it started broadcasting from 1 June 1994.History of Sun TV network and its channels is mentioned by It was the first Kannada satellite channel to go on air. It grew rapidly and by May 2000, Udaya TV has captured 70% of ad spending on TV in the state of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

.A biography of Kalanidhi Maran is presented by In 2000 and 2001, it won the Indian Television Academy's award for the best

TV channel for 2001 It forayed into FM radio broadcasting by launching Vishaka FM, an FM channel in

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. It was a free-on-air channel until 1 August 2004, when it was made a pay channel with a subscription fee of Rs. 18.Udaya TV being made a pay channel is mentioned by In February 2006, the directors of Udaya TV were

, S. Selvam and Kaveri Kalanidhi. S. Selvam was also the Director of the Bangalore Bureau of Udaya TV. In November 2006, its owner

merged Udaya TV Ltd. with

along with

Gemini TV Gemini TV is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Sun TV Network. It is the first satellite TV channel in Telugu. It was launched on 9 February 1995 by the Gemini Group of Hyderabad (run by Akkineni ...

Ltd for IPO listing of

.Merger of Udaya TV with Sun TV is discussed by

Programming

Current broadcasts

Former broadcasts

;Original series

Reality shows

Sister channels

Defunct channels

Udaya News

Udaya News is India's first

language News Channel owned by

. it was launched on 5 August 2004 as (Udaya Varthegalu) and later renamed as Udaya News. the channel ceased its operation after 19 years on 24 October 2017 due to mounting losses and competition. Udaya News was shut down on 1 February 2019.

Awards

* Indian Television Academy's award for the best

TV channel for 2001 – A picture report. * Indian Television Academy's award for the best Kannada TV channel for 2002

References

External links

* {{Kannada TV Channels Kannada-language television channels Television channels and stations established in 1994 Sun Group Television stations in Bengaluru 1994 establishments in Karnataka