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Cartoon Network launches Power Zone Contest
MUMBAI: It’s all about connecting to your audience. Towards that end, leading kids channel Cartoon Network has launched a promotion around its popular Power Zone franchise.
Prizes on offer include a day at an adventure camp where kids get to pack in some trekking, river crossing and rock climbing. With the idea clearly aimed at getting that all important stickiness in viewing, kids have to tune in to Power Zone and catch the password of the day. The password will be aired within the Cartoon Network password bug during Power Zone.
Kids need to write down all the five passwords aired throughout the week and send it to Cartoon Network or log on to www.cartoonnetworkindia.com. In addition to the 10 grand prizewinners of the adventure camp getaway, 100 other kids get to win branded T-shirts and GI Joe toys by participating in the weekly contests.
Only those kids who enter all the weekly contests will be eligible for the grand prize!
The Power Zone contest runs till 7 October and is sponsored by Pepsodent while Funskool is the prize-sponsor.
Launched in 2001, Power Zone is one of the hottest programming franchises on Cartoon Network, according to the channel. Power Zone airs from 4:00 to 5:00 pm weekdays and 11:00- noon on weekends.
MUMBAI: Cartoon Network has kicked off its nationwide campaign for Hojaye Shuru! – The Beyblade Championship.
The Beyblade Championship will be held in Mumbai and Delhi in quest of India’s best beyblader and will offer Indian kids an opportunity to showcase just how adept they are with their Beyblades to win the coveted Beyblade Trophy and a snazzy personal computer.
The Beyblade euphoria also continues on-air on Cartoon Network where kids have to spot the ‘bitbeast’ on their TV screens during the Beyblade show on Cartoon Network, every weekday at 5.30 pm.
Viewers can send their entries across by SMS, phone or online to bag fabulous prizes including a Sony Play Station-2 every week. Also up for grabs at leading outlets of McDonald’s are wild card entries to the grand finale, to be held at Mumbai on 14 May and Delhi on 21 May.
“Following the phenomenal success of the cutting edge programming series Beyblade, as well as the huge popularity of Beyblade merchandise, also launched by Cartoon Network, the network’s first-ever Beyblade championship further reaffirms our promise to provide our audience with multiple touch points to the network, beyond the television set. The ‘Beyblade Championship’ will give kids a chance to test their skills at beyblading and win fantastic prizes,” said Turner Entertainment Networks Asia executive director marketing Asia Pacific Vivek Krishnani.
Aspiring Beyblade masters can enter the on-air contest by watching Beyblade every weekday at 5.30 pm to spot the bit beast and enter their name either online at www.cartoonnetworkindia.com, or sms ‘BB’ followed by the name to 8558 or via phone (19051802233) to win Sony PS-2s and thousands of exciting Beyblade goodies.
Kids who want to participate at the on-ground championship can also sms “BB M” for Mumbai and “BB D” for Delhi to 8558 to win a chance to enter The Beyblade Championship in the two cities.
Beyblade premiered on Cartoon Network on 20 May, 2005 and since then has consistently been rating among the top five programmes on Cartoon Network.
