MUMBAI: The Copyright Board ended the hearing for this year by announcing the next hearing for mid March 2010.
In the two day session, only three radio witnesses were cross examined. The radio industry believes the Copyright Board sessions were not fruitful and the royalty issue is not getting the attention it requires.
Today's session leaves five more radio witnesses to be cross examined as multiple radio broadcaster has two three witnesses on an average. Post the cross examination of the radio industry, eight music witnesses will be cross examined
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MUMBAI: miRoamer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of listed digital media company Mi Media Holdings Limited (FWB:8MK) and global innovator in the Internet radio industry, announces that Geodesic, a leading provider of award-winning mobile and desktop solutions for instant messaging, VoIP and Internet radio, is utilizing miRoamer's Internet radio platform for Geodesic's Mundu Radio application.
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NEW DELHI: All India Radio covers 24.55 per cent area of the country through FM broadcasting, a service that is operation in 172 towns and cities.
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshakan told Parliament on Tuesday that while a total of 251 private FM channels were broadcasting in 26 states and union territories in the country, no study had been carried out about the area they covered.
The government had approved schemes for installing AIR FM transmitters at 195 more places during the tenth Five Year plan.
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NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday ruled out any proposal to provide financial support to educational institutions and other organisations to launch community radio stations
Parliament was informed that a total of 48 Community Radio stations were functioning in 16 states and union territories at present, which included 42 started by educational institutions and six by non-governmental organizations
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MUMBAI: Keeping in mind the upcoming Football World Cup, Speakal recently flaged off its new range of high Fidelity Audio Speakers and iPod docking station speaker dubbed as miSoccer.
This newest addition adorns an interesting spherical design. Resembling a football, the fabrication allows the speakers to be strategically placed delivering a sound of 360° sound distribution.
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MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the First and Number One Fm station of North Bengal is Official Radio Partner to 17th National Convention of CA Students Global Dreams - CA Vision to be held in Siliguri on 26th and 27th December. This is first time in North East that this convention is organised. Eminent faculties from all over country will participate in this gala event.
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MUMBAI: In an effort to cash in on the Christmas fervour, internet radio station myopusradio.com has launched 'O Carol' a radio channel dedicated for christmas carols and songs.
From popular carols to contemporary renditions that cover jazz, blues, soul, country and many more, O Carol offers 24 hours of non stop Christmas music. Says Sharmon Ibrahim, "The demand for Christmas songs is very high and people generally own one or two albums for Christmas tracks. Which is why we stumbled upon the idea of a separate channel dedicated to the Christmas season."
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BANGALORE: Radio Indigo has appointed Carl Avari as Vice-President Operations.
Also, Stanley Simon has been roped in to handle all marketing activities for both the stations that Radio Indigo operates in – Bangalore and Goa.
Radio Indigo, which recently celebrated its third anniversary in the city, also operates in Goa. The channel today boasts of being the only international hit radio station in Bangalore.
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MUMBAI: Internationally acclaimed group, RDB (Kuly, Manj, Surj & Nindy Kaur) have had nothing less than an epic year. When taking their first steps in Bollywood with tracks such as Rafta Rafta and Singh is King, these artists have soared to unimaginable heights.
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Shortcovers by Indigo Books & Music, Inc. (TSX:IDG), a leading global eBook service, today announced that 1.8 million additional titles from the Internet Archive will be made available free of charge through the Shortcovers store. This partnership will give Shortcovers users access to Internet Archive's recently-launched BookServer project on their smartphones, eReaders and desktops.
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