MUMBAI: The Lion of Bhangra Daler Mehndi has launched a search for the new face for his next video. The singer recently announced a new contest �Wanna Be Daler's Jugni' on his official facebook fanpage.
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MUMBAI: With the roll out of Phase III announced, My FM has restructured its senior level management team.
Abhilash Dave has been promoted as cluster business head – Punjab. He was previously the station head of Chandigarh.
Rajnish Thapiyal will take over as cluster head- Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh from his earlier postion as cluster head in Rajasthan. Satyen Purandare has been promoted as the national activations head in Delhi, who was hitherto the cluster head in Madhya Pradesh.
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NEW DELHI: Veteran singer Asha Bhosle has crooned an English song with Bappi Lahiri for a Hollywood movie �Will to Live'
The title track of the film is sung by famous International singer M C Hammer, and Sunidhi Chauhan, Kumar Shanu, Sherron Prabhakar, Reema Lahiri and Mamta Sharma are other singers of the movie.
Lahiri has blended western and Indian music for the film based on a true story of a courageous father who travels to the jungles of Himalyas in the quest of a rare herb that may cure his son`s cancer.
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MUMBAI: EMI has signed an agreement with MXP4 to integrate its vast catalogue into Bopler Games social music gaming app for facebook.
For the first time any major music company has licensed its catalogue for sale within social games on facebook on this scale, and the deal demonstrates how the music industry can benefit from the growth of social gaming revenues which are projected to hit $5 billion by 2015.
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MUMBAI: Canadian AM radio stations have decreased from 177 in 2006 to 141 in 2010 but the revenues remained stable, whereas the FM stations reported higher revenues and profits on the strength of improved local and national advertising sales, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) report.
CRTC released statistical and financial information on the 654 commercial radio stations operating in Canada for the broadcast year ending 31 August, 2010.
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MUMBAI: To notch up the superlative dose of musical fiesta, watch the 2 hour special of irresistible performance by the No. 1 band of the US Billboard 200 and also the highest selling debut album of all time both in the US and Worldwide, �Guns N' Roses exclusively on Vh1. Get a chance to peek into and be a part of the band members life with �Get to know them' on Vh1 Legends.
Tune in to witness some heart throbbing rock music from Guns N' Roses only on �Tata Manza presents Vh1 Legends from Sunday July 17th, at 12 pm.
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MUMBAI: Established in 2006, Cinephonix has grown from its roots as a composer agency, representing composers for film, advertising and television, to a full services music publishing company, offering a large catalogue of production music exclusively owned by Cinephonix, sound studios and a diverse range of professional composers and musicians for bespoke music commissions.
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MUMBAI: Scratch Music Group, a fast growing music and technology company, has closed a $3.3 million round of growth financing. Contour Venture Partners led the round with additional funding from the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) and angel investors Jason Finger and Todd Arky, of SeamlessWeb, and Jacob Pechenik, co-founder and CEO of YellowJacket Software.
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NEW DELHI: Employees of Prasar Bharati held a protest meeting to protest the decision of the Board to what they term outsourcing of the direct-to-home platform DD Direct Plus, outside broadcast of cricket on Doordarshan and All India Radio, and procurement and projects under the strategy for New Year.
The National Federation of Akashvani and Doordarshan Employees (NFADE) chairman Anilkumar S told indiantelevision.com that if employees remained silent, both All India Radio and Doordarshan would be sold out to private agencies.
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MUMBAI: BBC World Service audiences have fallen 14 million in the past year, largely as a result of service closures and platform changes due to cuts to central Government grants.
The overall audience estimate for the year is 166 million, down from 180 million last year.
The World Service, currently funded by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, had its budget cut in the Government's Spending Review and in January announced that five language services would close along with significant platform changes to other services.
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