MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM continuation to offering exciting on-air content to its listeners and celebrating "Tamilian's pride", today for the first time in Chennai got its breakfast show RJ BIG Dheena to host live on-air link from a "hot air balloon" organized by ERA star property developers.
RJ BIG Dheena who hosts BIG Vanakkam show between 7.00 am to 11.00 am weekdays had a chance to go live on-air from the Hot Air Balloon where he shared his experience with the listeners.
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MUMBAI: The shareholders of the US radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications Inc have approved the $17.9 billion takeover of the company by private equity funds Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H Lee Partners LP.
As per Clear Channel, approximately 97 per cent of the shares, voted at a special shareholders meeting on 24 July, were cast in favour of the deal.
This will end a 20-month effort as the merger agreement of Clear Channel with the Bain/Lee group was first drafted in November 2006. Now, the parties are planning the $36-a-share buyout on 30 July.
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MUMBAI: A Maharashtra based NGO Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha-MVSS has acquired the licence to run a community radio last week, becoming the first in the NGO sector in the country to join the CR (community radio) network. The NGO works for empowering the women in rural areas and got the license for aswad village in Satara. MVSS president Chetna Gala Sinha asserts, "Many NGOs had applied with the I&B Ministry and we were the first ones to obtain it. The radio station would be an extension of our NGO activities and will be used as a tool to propagate our financial plans.
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MUMBAI: UK is the leading mobile music market in the EU-5, says a report by eMarketer. The report says that the EU-5 mobile music mobile retail revenue will exceed US $1.4 billion in 2012.
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MUMBAI: Motorola launched the 3G Motorazr V9 Ferrari special edition in India on 24 July.
The Ferrari phone offers an integrated 2 megapixel camera with 8x zoom. It also has wireless broadband with 3G HSDPA, EDGE/GPRS Class 10 & 12, music player with stereo Bluetooth headphones capability, video streaming, video capture and playback.
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MUMBAI: Bhasker Groups My FM has planned a slate of special programming concentrating on the International Potato Day on 24 July.
As part of the celebration My FM will give more tit-bits on potato to the listeners on its stations.
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MUMBAI: Bringing a 'Whatte Fun' flavour to the 'City of Nawabs', Hyderabad's Radio City 91.1FM concluded the three day 'Great Biryani Eating Competition' at Hyderabad House, Road No-3, Banjara Hills today. Getting Hyderabad's families together to savour the city's renowned Hyderabadi Family Pack Biryani, the FM station short-listed 10 families to participate at the Finale. RJ Vamsee, host of 'Whatte Fun Mornings' cheered on the contenders who raced to consume more and more of this scrumptious...
MUMBAI: After over a week of bad-mouthing and back-biting each other on television, the 'gorgeous' girls seem to have turned over a new leaf. Viewers of the bitchiest, sexiest and nastiest reality show on television may be in for one helluva surprise. The girls, after much bitterness and rancour towards each other, are apparently apologetic and even nice to one another Ĺ“ an unheard of occurrence on the show.
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