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Where’s the Official Website of Bigg Boss 3

Where’s the Official Website of Bigg Boss 3
Contestants for Bigg Boss Season 3 include Sherlyn Chopra, Aditi Gowitrikar, Poonam Dhillon, Claudia Ciesla , Raju Srivastava, Ismail Darbar, Jaya Sawant (Rakhi Sawant’s mother), Rohit Verma, Tanaaz Currim, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Vindu Dara Singh, Kamaal Rashid Khan and Shamita Shetty (Shilpa Shetty’s sister).

‘Big Boss’ success prompts telecast of ‘Big Brother’

‘Big Boss’ success prompts telecast of ‘Big Brother’
Fresh from the success of ‘Big Boss Season 2’ on Colors, Viacom18 is launching the international version ‘Big Brother’ on Vh1, its international music and lifestyle in India. The show would be aired from Sun-Wed at10pm starting 10pm and the version shown in India shall be ‘Big Brother Season 9’ shown in USA, also known as ‘Till Death Do You Part’.

The Balika Vadhu Effect: Colors set to become number one TV channel

The Balika Vadhu Effect: Colors set to become number one TV channel
Remember 2001, when the beleaguered Star Plus channel launched KBC and Kyunki Saas…. to instantly garner the top spot in the Indian TV market. Now 7 years hence, Colors channel has Anandi to its help and is slated to become the number one channel after overtaking Sony and Zee to already become the second most watched channel after leader Star Plus.

Star-Balaji-9X episode witnesses new twists

Star-Balaji-9X episode witnesses new twists
The growing number of Hindi GEC has finally taken its toll, with talks of channel 9X selling itself to Balaji Telefilms gaining steam. 9X is run by INX Media, which is promoted by former Star TV India Chief Peter Mukherjee who along with his wife has a 50% stake in the company.

Colors adopts novel marketing strategies to become channel leader

New channel, Colors launched by Viacom18 has already created a stir among the Hindi GEC owing to its a little off line programming list. In its latest initiative to become the market leader, Colors is undertaking innovative promotions targeting Hindi speaking audience in 90 Indian cities.

Viacom18 unveils a new entertainment channel, Colors

Viacom18 unveils a new entertainment channel, Colors
In the growing breed of GEC channels in India, another new channel is to be launhced in July called ‘COLORS’. The channel is brought by Viacom18, which is a equal JV between Viacom and Network18.

Alibaba ventures into Indian market, in partnership with Network 18

Alibaba ventures into Indian market, in partnership with Network 18
World’s largest B2B portal Alibaba.com has tied up with India’s largest yellow pages company, Infomedia India (owned by Network 18 Fincap) to officially foray into the lucrative Indian market and cater the needs of 80 lakh small and medium Indian businesses.

Post Mortem of the stock market meltdown

Post Mortem of the stock market meltdown
Arguably Indian market’s best known face, CNBC-TV18′s Udayan Mukherjee has come out with his own take of the crazy market situations being witnessed over the last few days. Amidst all this, one thing that emerges from sure is that if you money, just go and buy those stocks in which you see exceptional value and have been battered recently.

Forbes magazine makes entry into India, ties up with TV18

Forbes magazine makes entry into India, ties up with TV18
Forbes, America’s third biggest business magazine after BusinessWeek and Fortune, is going to make an Indian entry in early 2008. And since only 26% FDI is permitted in print media in India, it has chosen Television18 as its Indian partner.

Anil Ambani enters into highly lucrative Live Sports Entertainment biz

Anil Ambani enters into highly lucrative Live Sports Entertainment biz
The Reliance – ADAG groups is making its foray into organising large format live events through their company, Adlabs Films under a new banner ‘Big Live’. The group will mainly organise sports and entertainment events rather than managing sports personalities.