MUMBAI: The ongoing producer-multiplex tussle has already had the plexes enforcing new programming strategies to garner revenues through alternate streams. And now the tug-of-war has also compelled a few radio stations to change their marketing activities.
Until the commencement of the strike, radio stations were giving away movie tickets of new releases through on-air contests in a bid to attract more listeners. But now with the strike on, a few of them have changed course.
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BANGALORE: Kolkata born Padmabhushan Manna Dey, who turns 90 on 1 May, will perform in Bangalore on 10 May.
Through the Memories come alive concert, Dey, who performed in the city in May 2008, will once again take his fans on a musical journey spanning over six decades along with Archana Udupa.
Jadavpur University Alumni Foundation, Bangalore will felicitate him on this occasion. Funds raised from this concert will be used towards its ongoing project of providing educational ...
MUMBAI: Rediffusion Y&R's advertVandana, for the American India Foundation, is the only Indian entry shortlisted in the Radio category (single entries) for the Clio Awards 2009.Released in September 2008, the ad has been scripted by Mohamed Rizwan.
Anisha Sarin and Ashutosh Karkhanis have been credited as the executive creative directors while Ramanuj Shastry and Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar are the national creative directors for the ad.
The Clio Awards are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and will be held mid May.
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MUMBAI: Essar Group's The MobileStore (TMS) has launched handsets under the brand name �Ray'.
The company says it has worked with equipment manufacturers on the design and features of the handsets. Four models will be rolled out in the first phase.
RAY M20 is the cheapest at Rs 2,399 and comes with an FM radio, MP3 player, expandable memory and GPRS.
The top-end phone at Rs 6,999 offers touch screen display, 3 megapixel camera, FM radio and recording and bluetooth a...
MUMBAI: 'Sukritham', a documentary broadcast by Thiruvananthapuram All India Radio (AIR), has bagged the award for the best family welfare programme at the national level.
In a press release on Monday, AIR's Thiruvananthapuram Station Director said 'Sukritham' narrated the fight of a father and a mother to bring their daughter, born with Down's syndrome, a chromosomal disorder, to the mainstream.
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MUMBAI: Oscar winning sound engineer has for the first time taken up a Malayalam feature film as his next assignment.
Mammootty's historical film Pazhassi Raja, directed by director Hariharan,scripted by literary giant M.T. Vasudevan Nair, will mark the Malayalam debut of Pookutty as a sound mixer, say reports.
The film will be simultaneously released in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi with the same title, and will release on 15 August.
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MUMBAI: SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the inventor and world's largest supplier of flash storage cards, today announced that four new 1,000-song, genre-specific slotRadio™ cards are available for sale at slotRadio.org. The new slotRadio cards (starting at $39.99 MSRP, U.S.) give consumers instant access to some of their favorite styles of music, including Rock, Country, Oldies and Hip Hop/R&B. Each card contains several hand-crafted playlists featuring songs from Billboard's top charting artists.
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MUMBAI: Neeraj Chaturvedi has been elevated as head, national marketing and promotions at Fever FM. This is in addition to his current responsibility as station head, Delhi. He replaces Gowri Satyamoorthy Kapre who has moved to Hindustan, HT Media's Hindi daily as part of the internal transfer. She joined duties at Hindustan on Monday.
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MUMBAI: Music Today latest album titled Jhoola – A World Music Yatra... by distinguished musician and composer Amit Heri is all set to rock the country as it releases this week. The artiste previously conquered the hearts of millions of music lovers through his music for the movie Morning Raaga directed by Mahesh Dattani starring Shabana Azmi & Perizaad Zorabain and his last album Elephant Walk.
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