Media coverage

Though it is a single-handed effort by the duo –Saptarshi and Angshuman, once they shared the information with others the news did spread like wild fire and media took a note of that.
Definitely the regional media of Sourav Ganguly’s native place, Kolkata was more exuberant on this issue. Both Print and electronic media came forward to support the website. The support is continuously pouring in from different media houses.
Here is some statistics  ---

Print Media

Shaarad Sourav

The news of Wish Sourav – before Challenger cup in 2006 during Durga puja.
(Detailed news in ‘an action packed site ‘ doc)

The news of launch of welovesourav T- shirt as a part of celebration of Dada’s comeback and welovesourav site’s first anniversary Feb 2007 came on Saturday Times at ‘What’s Hot’ (March 10 2007) just during world fever. (Detailed news in ‘an action packed site’ doc)

Ajkaal

--- The quintessential local language newspaper in Kolkata, reputed for its rich collection of sports news backed the site –www.weloevsourav.com quite proactively and on 30th dec, 2005 the news of the site had taken air in evening version –Sandhya Aajkaal. Next day, 31st Dec 2005 the news came in the main paper of Aajkaal in morning edition.

Then onwards couple of news of welovesourav appeared in last two years-

1. Shaard Sourav – A wish for Sourav at challenger trophy and a lucky draw during Durga puja 2006
2. Launch of welovesourav T- shirt as a part of celebration of Dada’s comeback and welovesourav site’s first anniversary Feb 2007.
3. Sourav National Index- an online game based on Sourav’s performance in Australia in 2007-08.

(Detailed news in ‘an action packed site’ doc)

Bartamaan

---31st Dec, 2005, the news of the website came in Bartaman patrika . Since Bartaman is a very popular Bengali Daily in suburban Bengal, the website got enough mileage even in outskirts of Kolkata.
Then another news appeared:

1. Sourav National Index- an online game based on Sourav’s performance in Australia in 2007-08.

(Detailed news in ‘an action packed site’ doc)

Electronic Media

Talk Show

1. NDTV – Sourav Ganguly’s Comeback – Anchored by Dr. Pranay Roy at Eden
2. NDTV -CAB Election – In presence of Ajay Jadeja, Saba karim, Kishore Vimani and Debasish Dutta.
3.  NDTV India – Dropping of Sourav in 2008 Australia One day – participation with Ajay Jadeja and Surindar khanna

News

1. Sourav National index
2. Launch of site
3. Shaarad Sourav
4. T-Shirt Launch

Talk Show

1. IBN 7 – With Jashpal Sharma and Prasanna on one-year completion of Greg Chappel’s Coaching for   Indian Cricket Team
2. CNN-IBN: Helping out Rajdeep sardesai by Providing statistics during interview of Sourav Ganguly at CNN IBN

Zee TV                                   
Electronic media also showed their keen interest in popularizing the website on behalf of the two –Saptarshi and Angshuman. Zee TV was very prompt to showcase a programme on this Sourav Related website during the same day (13th Jan, 2006) of Lahore test toss controversy between Greg-Rahul-Sourav in mid of the ground. Infact Zee telecast the programme in almost all of its regional channel, Zee national news and Zee business.

STAR-Anand

The most popular one Bengali news channel, STAR- Anand felt the need of highlighting the online petition against Chappell (Given in the site) and the work of these two on Sourav Ganguly. They made a repeated telecast on this issue on 9h February, Saturday, the day Anil Kumble reached his 500-wicket mark.

Akash-Bangla(Sky-B)

In west Bengal, perhaps the most popular daily sports programme is –Dash Miniter Khel in Akash Bangla Channel .The   website received a rev review in that programme on 9th April, 2006. One single programme created much ripple effect amongst Kolkatan and suburban people in one shot.
10 Minuter Khel then covered various welovesourav events like:

1. T –Shirt launch
2. Shaarad Sourav

X-tra time –24 Ghonta

Anilava Chatterjee’s X tra time covered couple of our events like:

1. T –Shirt launch
2. Shaarad Sourav
3. Felicitation to Sourav by welovesourav group  in the platform of xtra time before 2007 world cup

Web world

The publication of the news of the website in both –Aajkaal and Bartaman’s web version was immensely instrumental in   bringing the world in his oyster for the site –www.welovesourav.com .As a consequence, a lot of moral support came from different part of the country and abroad via NRIs.The website name came in different e groups and also in blogs, message board section of indiatimes.com, Rediff.com etc.