Owned by Sun Network | Country India | |
Launched 1 June 199416 March 2017 (2017-03-16) (HD) Broadcast area India, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, United States | ||
Udaya TV is a regional Kannada language Indian cable television station. It is also the first Kannada satellite channel in India. The channel is part of the Chennai-based Sun Network of Tamil Nadu. Udaya TV is telecast in several nations, including India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada and the United States.
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Some of the other Kannada channels from Asian Television Network group are Udaya Movies (a 24-hour Kannada movies channel), Udaya News (a 24-hour Kannada news channel), Udaya Music (a 24-hour Kannada music channel) and Udaya Comedy (a 24-hour comedy channel). On 16 March 2017, Udaya Tv became the Second channel in Kannada Television to be broadcast in 1080i Full HD and 7.1 Dolby Digital sound quality. The High Definition Channel is Udaya HD and was first telecast via Sun Direct DTH service on Channel number 860.
History
Udaya TV was incorporated on 2 May 1994 as a private limited company engaged in television broadcasting with a registered office at Chennai,Tamil Nadu. It was launched by the chairman of Sun TV, Kalanidhi Maran, and it started broadcasting from 1 June 1994. 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.
It won the Indian Television Academy's best Kannada TV channel award in the year 2001 and 2002.
It forayed into FM radio broadcasting by launching Vishaka FM, an FM channel in Visakhapatnam.
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.
In February 2006, the directors of Udaya TV wereKalanidhi Maran, S. Selvam and Kaveri Kalanidhi. S. Selvam was also the Director of the Bangalore Bureau of Udaya TV.
In November 2006, Udaya TV Ltd. was merged with Sun TV Ltd. along with Gemini TV Ltd.