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 Jun, 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 also won the Indian Television Academy's best Kannada TV channel award in the year 2001 and 2002. It also forayed into FM radio broadcasting by launching Vishaka FM, an FM channel in Vishakapatnam. It was a free-on-air channel till 1 Aug 2004, when it was made a pay channel with a subscription fee of Rs.18. In Feb 2006, the directors of Udaya TV were Mr. Kalanidhi Maran, Mr. S. Selvam and Mrs. Kaveri Kalanidhi. S. Selvam was also the Director of the Bangalore Bureau of Udaya TV. In Nov 2006, Udaya TV Ltd. was merged with Sun TV Ltd. along with Gemini TV Ltd.
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