CHENNAI: Sun TV has topped the popularity charts by a huge margin according to a survey conducted by the School of Media Science, Loyola College.
The survey results were released by lecturer Rajananayakam of the Media Science Department, on the college premises on Friday and clarified that the survey was conducted among 3,025 respondents across the state and that all respondents were above 18 years of age.
The team had conducted this survey over the last two months and people seem to be very clear that the Maran brothers-owned Sun TV was the preferred channel for 51 percent of the respondents and other channels from the Sun TV group like K TV (7.5 per cent), Sun Music (4.3 per cent ) and Sun News (2.6 per cent) too found a place among people’s preferences.
Sun TV also seemed to have topped the charts among various channels for their innovative programming content, providing entertainment and for airing knowledgebased programmes.
The respondents also voted for Kalaignar TV (8.6 per cent), Vijay TV (6.4 per cent) Podhigai (5.7 per cent), Jaya TV (4.2 per cent) and Makkal TV (1.1 per cent).
According to the survey, the respondents also included members of various political parties and across all political parties, all major respondents said that they watched Sun TV.