NEW DELHI: Sony Music has entered into a strategic alliance with Promo Sapiens to book and market its talent including Indian Idol -5 (Except Sreeram) and India's Got Talent.
Promo Sapiens will work as booking agents while Sony music continues to develop and manage their careers.
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MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 FM, the first and Number one fm station of North Bengal joined hands with Bangla Gaan Utsav committee to organize path-breaking festival of Bengali songs. The four-day festival had Popular Bengali bands Chandrabindu and Saptak performing live at this utsav.Noted Writer Samaresh Majumder unveiled the statue of Rabindranath Tagore during the four-day festival to commemorate the poet's 150 birth anniversary. West Bengal Urban Development Minister Asok Bhattachary...
MUMBAI: Beginning 16 January, aspiring singer-songwriters will be able to showcase original songs and compete for the title of Best Original Song at www.BestOriginalSong.com. Weekly live internet shows will give viewers the chance to listen and vote. The world premier show will be on 16th Jan at 8 pm EST (India time 6.30 am on Jan 17) and all shows will be available to vote for one full week after the shows. Viewers from all over the world will vote for their favorite song/artist....
MUMBAI: our favorite four best friends from Minnesota are hitting it big with their first DVD, Big Time Rush: Season One, Volume One Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan trade in their hockey sticks and parkas for a chance at music superstardom in Los Angeles, but the road to success isn't easy! Can they handle being thrown into the glamorous Hollywood scene and are they dedicated enough to make their dream a reality? This brand-new two-disc set includes the first eleven episodes of the series plus a bonus episode with special features and guest appearances by Nicole Scherzinger, Chris M...
MUMBAI: Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 52 (19-25 Dec /10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening reveals that it was yet another week of negligible shifts in market shares.
Gains and losses in the 4 metros (at =/> 0.2% of own share) were:
Gains (%):
(1) Mumbai: BIG FM - 0.4; Red FM - 0.3; AIR FM 1 Rainbow – 0.3; Radio One - 0.2; Oye! – 0.2
2) Delhi: AIR FM Vividh Bharati – 0.5; Hit FM – 0.4; Fever FM – 0.2
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MUMBAI: Music labels are getting more aggressive to co-opt FM Radio networks to play out non-film music, and Saregama India has been busy with various networks, seeking out the biggest to launch such albums. In end-2010 we saw it tie up with the network with the largest physical presence, BIG FM, to launch its Asha Bhosle-Shujaat Khan album across all HSMs. And today, Hidayat Hussain, the son of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan, is out with his second album, Sawariya, and Saregama has tied up...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said Monday that the Central Board for Film Certification had been given the mandate of judging the item songs or other scenes in films.
On a question about a directive of the Allahabad High Court on item songs in films, Soni said the Ministry had conveyed this in its reply to the Court notice.
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NEW DELHI: The Group of Ministers is expected to meet shortly to take a decision on phase III of FM Broadcasting and raising of foreign direct investment in FM radio, even as Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Ambika Soni, admitted that the government was not opposed to increasing the FDI from the present 20 per cent
She was speaking to mediapersons soon after receiving the report of the Committee on TRPs headed by FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra.
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