Longest Running Weekly Quiz Show on Television Limca Book of Record

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The BSNL Sports Quiz aired by Doordarshan Podhigai has won a mention in the Limca Book of National Records as the longest running weekly quiz show on television in India, it was announced at a press-meet here on Tuesday.

The show, hosted by Sumanth C. Raman, was started in June 2002 with the FIFA World Cup in mind and has since gone on to complete 373 episodes as on July 18.

The popular show, over its seven-year course, has received calls from over 30,000 participants, around 4.5 lakh SMSs and also 2000 e-mails per show on an average. Apart from Indian cities, viewers from as far as Oman, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, China, Latvia and Estonia have participated in the programme.

Speaking at the function, Sumanth, a doctor by training, acknowledged the team-work that had gone into the production of the quiz-show, saying that anchoring was the ‘easier job’ while the programming and engineering teams and the technicians handle the tougher aspects of it.

P.S. Parameswaran, Programme Executive at DD Chennai, who conceived the idea of the quiz show, said that he plans to complete 1000 episodes of the show with Sumanth as the anchor.

S. Mehanathan, Head of Programmes at DD Chennai, N. Thyagarajan, Superintending Enginner at DD Chennai and Shanmugasundaram, Principal GM, Operations, BSNL were also present at the function. — Sports Reporter