come December, and the air starts humming with excitement. Be it the winter solstice, or new year revelries, festivities crowd the calendar. For a small but devoted section of Indian classical music aficionados, this is the time to head to Chennai where the annual 'music season' is in full swing. Celebrated during the lunar month known as 'Margazhi' in Tamil (mid-December to mid-January), the season has the city reverberating to the drone of the tanpura and the lilt of the mridangam in music concerts organized by the many 'gana sabhas', or music academies, across the city....
MUMBAI: Mumbaikars have been deeply affected by the alleged molestation of two girls by group of young men on the midnight of December 31, 2007. In the light of the matter, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM India's hottest radio station pledges concern and support to the wellbeing of women in Mumbai with "Yeh Mumbai nahi hai meri jaan... campaign.The campaign kicked off on the station earlier this month with specials on the issue, focusing on the incident.
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It may be miniscule right now, but the market for classical music in India is growing at a steady clip, the dominance of Bollywood music notwithstanding. www.radioandmusic.com's Shalabh discovers that more music companies are tapping newer genres within the classical space to get the cash registers ringing. The good news - Indian classical music sales are picking up, slowly but steadily. The bad news - there isn't any, really. Music companies in India have for th...
MUMBAI: A new music company, Swiss Music released its debut album 'Dard bolta hai- Sun zara' at its launch in Mumbai on Wednesday. The event was graced by veteran composer Ravindra Jain, who launched the company's first album featuring new singer Rahul Verma....
MUMBAI: RNW (Radio Netherlands Worldwide), an independent multimedia company based in Holland, plans to create local content for Indian private FM stations customized to local preferences. RNW's Country Representative Amitabh Srivastava says, "First of all, we want to get a clear picture of what's needed in the Indian market....
MUMBAI: In an attempt to spread awareness about basic education among children aged 6-14 years, Red FM, in association with Cry, has initiated a "Sabko Shiksha Saman Shiksha" campaign. Till 21 January, Red FM's tool of free expression, Red Mike will support Cry's objective by asking people in Mumbai to start paying close attention to what is going on in schools and to demand action to make government schools deliver quality education to all children irrespective of their caste, c...
MUMBAI: Trying different techniques ranging from RJ talk, campaigns to contests, FM station are toying with different 'unique' methods to break the clutter in the market. Joining the band wagon is Big FM Chennai, which has re-positioned itself as 'Tamilian's Pride' (Tamizhanin Perumi) with the brand-line 'Kekkalam Pesalam Life Kondadalam'. The station's content both on air and on ground will be plugged around 'Tamilan's Pride'....
MUMBAI: Sun TV Network's S FM has launched in Tiruchy through its subsidiary Kal Radio, taking the total number of stations to 19 across India. Sun TV already operates in places that include Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondlicherry and Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada and Varanasi....
