Election time is TV time

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/11/2012

Gujarat is seeing a burst of TV channels as the elections draw near. Apart from recent entrants V News and the Sandesh news channel from the Sandesh group, Gujarat Samachar is getting ready to launch a channel. And the answer to Narendra Modi's cable channel Na Mo is the web TV channel from the Gujarat Parivartan Party of Keshubhai Patel, gpptv.in.

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