Officials insisted that the feeds were not available at present due to certain technical problems and would be added in the coming days.

Sun-owned Sumangali Cable Vision — that the DMK helped establish and expand — has been having a monopolistic control over the visual media empire with a bouquet of channels and distribution network.

Since their fallout after publishing a survey report that showed Karunanidhi’s elder son Azhagiri as one of the least preferred for succeeding him as the CM, the family, party, and the state Government have gone all guns blazing against Dayanidhi and his elder brother Kalanidhi Maran, in what is seen here as a fight to finish.

Accusing the Sun Group of colluding with opposition parties (read AIADMK) to act against the state Government and the party, Karunanidhi had directed cadres not to give advertisements to the newspapers owned by the group. A case is currently on at the Madras High Court, as the state Government cancelled advertisements to the organisations, following Karunanidhi’s direction.