The Failure of Zee's Sawaal Dus Crore Ka
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTR004
Case Length : 9 Pages
Period : 1991 - 2001
Organization : Zee TV, Star TV
Pub Date : 2001
Teaching Note : Available
Countries : India
Industry : Media and Entertainment
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Zee even changed the timings of its popular prime time soaps.
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To lure back the audience lost due to the KBC effect, Zee launched its Malamaal interactive contest. However, the promotion did not do the trick for Zee, and the KBC menace continued to eat into its TRP ratings and ad revenues. It was at this time that Zee TV decided that it had to come out with a program, which could match KBC. Thus was born Sawal Dus Crore Ka (SDCK). Zee seemed to have hit the wrong note from the very beginning, when it decided to make SDCK a replica of KBC with Anupam Kher and Manisha Koirala as anchors. To lure away KBC viewers, Zee decided to feed on their greed by offering prize money of Rs 100 million to the winner, as against KBC's Rs 10 million, giving the show a tremendous response initially... |
Reality Bites
In January 2001, all the Star channels were blocked for two weeks by cable operators getting their feed from Siticable, cable network. Media reports indicated that SDCK's failure had prompted Zee to use its arm Siticable, to harm KBC's TRPs by preventing it from reaching viewers. (Another view was that Star, riding high on the success of KBC, demanded higher payment for relaying its channels and stopped feeding them to operators, mainly Siticable, who refused to oblige.) Though Star's viewership did suffer as Siticable commanded 17% of the cable business, it stood its ground, forcing Zee to make peace. Following this, Siticable officials had a meeting with Star officials and reached an agreement to restore Star channels...
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