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Posted: 15 years ago
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n an average, a popular reality television show gets about 7 million cell phone text messages each episode.

At Rs 4 per SMS, that adds up to Rs 28 million per episode.

Over a year (52 weeks), that is an astounding Rs 1,460 million.

On a 50:50 split between the channel and the mobile operator, that works out to Rs 730 million to the channel.

All that money from just one reality show.

To get the SMSs in, they will motivate, inspire, incite, instigate and also lure you

All you people who vote/SMS for reality shows, please note that you are part of a business strategy carefully drawn up in the boardroom and executed carefully by the director.

The regional/language/parochial/sympathy/failing-in-love cards are freely used.

And yes, you can vote as many times as you wish. The more you vote, the greater the chance of your favourite contestant winning. And you have a chance to win too.

Anything to make you send a simple SMS.

'Aapka ek SMS ek career bacha sakta hain(one SMS from you can save a career).'

Beg. Beg. Beg.

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Posted: 15 years ago
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hahaha lol , yeah u r right !! 😆😆😆 And plus they get lots and lots of money from their sponsors !! Really good strategy to make money !!😛
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I loved you're calculations.. 😃 Anyways, I voted for Shakti through SMS texts only last week... I never voted for anyone after Parvez.. 😳
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Posted: 15 years ago
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In did lil masters winner will be from farah khan or sandip soparkar dance academy 😆

sms fixing 😆
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: Dancelover

On an average, a popular reality television show gets about 7 million cell phone text messages each episode.

At Rs 4 per SMS, that adds up to Rs 28 million per episode.

Over a year (52 weeks), that is an astounding Rs 1,460 million.

On a 50:50 split between the channel and the mobile operator, that works out to Rs 730 million to the channel.

All that money from just one reality show.

To get the SMSs in, they will motivate, inspire, incite, instigate and also lure you

All you people who vote/SMS for reality shows, please note that you are part of a business strategy carefully drawn up in the boardroom and executed carefully by the director.

The regional/language/parochial/sympathy/failing-in-love cards are freely used.

And yes, you can vote as many times as you wish. The more you vote, the greater the chance of your favourite contestant winning. And you have a chance to win too.

Anything to make you send a simple SMS.

'Aapka ek SMS ek career bacha sakta hain(one SMS from you can save a career).'

Beg. Beg. Beg.




I agree ! I also think that D-Sir was a paper tiger! Otherwise he wasn't a Shaktishali contestant at all ! I think all they do is - create hype in the mid season but do not rig the final results otherwise why would people like TKT work so hard !

BTW - In your calculation, you need to divide the final number by 2 because DID runs for 6 months and not for 12 months.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: baijubavra




I agree ! I also think that D-Sir was a paper tiger! Otherwise he wasn't a Shaktishali contestant at all ! I think all they do is - create hype in the mid season but do not rig the final results otherwise why would people like TKT work so hard !

BTW - In your calculation, you need to divide the final number by 2 because DID runs for 6 months and not for 12 months.



The SMS costs Rs. 3.

7 million votes per episode??? 😲 The winner in teh grand finale got approx 8 lakhs vote.

7 million means 70 lakhs..... please be reasonable..!!!😛

Agar itna profit hota to sabse aage Vijay Mallya ek reality show lanch karta 😆

According to me.... each episode they have around 10 lakh votes... however in case of DID they have only 8 weeks of public voting.

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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: Its_Sash



The SMS costs Rs. 3.
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7 million votes per episode??? 😲 The winner in teh grand finale got approx 8 lakhs vote.

7 million means 70 lakhs..... please be reasonable..!!!😛

Agar itna profit hota to sabse aage Vijay Mallya ek reality show lanch karta 😆

According to me.... each episode they have around 10 lakh votes... however in case of DID they have only 8 weeks of public voting.</font>

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Good post again~ is there any post of urs tht I didn't like 😆

A perfect result of over exaggerating the money earned from the show and
good example of fallacy of straw man! 😆 ( haha my critical reasoning teacher will be so proud)
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Posted: 15 years ago
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there's actually not that much profit in SMS, it's very exaggerated. I don't think the channels even care about SMS money becuase it's soo less compared to the money they earn from commercials. Each 10 second spot for a commercial is priced up to 1- 2 lakhs rupee for a popular reality show. So 1 minute of adds can make them about 6-12 lakhs.

If SMS was making them that much money they would have kept all these Veto Rounds to rake in more money over more weeks.
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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: keenugill08

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Good post again~ is there any post of urs tht I didn't like 😆

A perfect result of over exaggerating the money earned from the show and
good example of fallacy of straw man! 😆 ( haha my critical reasoning teacher will be so proud)




Ha Ha Ha ! I agree ! I remember in DID 1 finals they said that Salman got 8.4 lakh votes, Alisha got 8 lakh votes and Siddesh got 7.9 lakh votes. So the total is about 24 lakh votes which means = 2.4 million . So if Jai (4h place) got about half of what Siddesh got (It is highly unlikely but I am taking the worst case scenario so please bear with me, BTW I am a huge Jai fan) then the total is still under 3 million.

Now if you consider that about half of the votes are through internet (again worst case scenario!) then it means that in the final episode they got about 1.5 million votes which means people spent 4.5 million Rupees in the final episode. There are about 10 episodes where junta votes (after Dada is done) so, the total would be
2 million Rs* 10 episodes (I took 2 million here because I think people are more charged up in the finals and again it is the worst case scenario)

So the total is
20 Million Rs for the 10 episodes
+ 4.5 million Rs for the final
~ 25 Million RS total

And then a percentage of this would go to the cell operator also. So, in any case it is not more than about 10 to 12 Million Rupees from the SMS. The ads and product placement (e.g.Kit -Kat break, Nokia song) are separate from this calculation.

Also, they must be paying huge money to TL, Remo and GM for 6 months of their time + something to the contestants + 50 lakh prize money + technicians + sets + Dada

What do you guys think? I like the Mallaya analogy LOL !



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Posted: 15 years ago
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Originally posted by: baijubavra




Ha Ha Ha ! I agree ! I remember in DID 1 finals they said that Salman got 8.4 lakh votes, Alisha got 8 lakh votes and Siddesh got 7.9 lakh votes. So the total is about 24 lakh votes which means = 2.4 million . So if Jai (4h place) got about half of what Siddesh got (It is highly unlikely but I am taking the worst case scenario so please bear with me, BTW I am a huge Jai fan) then the total is still under 3 million.

Now if you consider that about half of the votes are through internet (again worst case scenario!) then it means that in the final episode they got about 1.5 million votes which means people spent 4.5 million Rupees in the final episode. There are about 10 episodes where junta votes (after Dada is done) so, the total would be
2 million Rs* 10 episodes (I took 2 million here because I think people are more charged up in the finals and again it is the worst case scenario)

So the total is
20 Million Rs for the 10 episodes
+ 4.5 million Rs for the final
~ 25 Million RS total

And then a percentage of this would go to the cell operator also. So, in any case it is not more than about 10 to 12 Million Rupees from the SMS. The ads and product placement (e.g.Kit -Kat break, Nokia song) are separate from this calculation.

Also, they must be paying huge money to TL, Remo and GM for 6 months of their time + something to the contestants + 50 lakh prize money + technicians + sets + Dada

What do you guys think? I like the Mallaya analogy LOL !





Haha nice analogy, looks like you have been taking lectures of critical reasoning 😆
u should try teachin me some! my head jus spins around when teacher tries to explain! 🤪

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