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Drumbeat: Ad Buzzaar
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Wednesday, May 27, 1998
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To-be-weds flock to Net to find right mates
Two years ago, Tim Gray was just another frustrated groom-to-be, spending hours driving around Pasadena, California, with his fiance looking at reception halls, when he had an epiphany. Planning a wedding could be a lot easier if you used the Internet to do it. His brainstorm led Gray to start the weddingChannel (http://www.weddingChannel.com), a wedding-planning Web site that opened for business last summer and since has grown to 1.5 million page views a month.
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Generation X dumps angst-ridden Channel V for snazzy MTV
Want to see a channel falling apart? Tune into Channel V. The music channel, which was launched by Star TV along with other music companies in its bid to beat back MTV, is today getting beaten fairly and squarely in its own backyard. Viewership-numbers show that audiences are abandoning Channel V and increasingly turning to MTV, the real music channel. And a survey by a research firm recently showed that viewers think that the Channel V programming is dull.
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Sky's the limit: Give your career a flying start
Air travel and the aviation industry has been having a bumpy ride over the past decade. While there has been an enormous growth in the volume of traffic, the entry of private airlines into a once wholly government controlled area has not been a smooth landing. However, today more than over before, larger and larger numbers of people are travelling by air, and further from home for both business and pleasure. And this business can only grow, even if there are less players in the field.
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