MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV - the DTH service from Bharti Airtel – today announced that it would be replacing the 10 WorldSpace Satellite Radio channels on its DTH platform with 10 All India Radio channels effective January 1, 2010. This replacement would be automatic and at no additional cost for all subscriber of the Music Plus Top Up and for those who were receiving the WorldSpace channels as part of their subscription pack.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mantra 91.9 FM across its network of 8 stations Jalandhar, Karnal, Hissar, Agra, Bareilly, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Ranchi aired a Mega 91+9 countdown. The top songs of the year 2009 were packaged On Air from 11am to 9pm where listeners could vote for their top song by sending a sms to 57272 and if their song made it to the chosen 9, they were gratified with Mantra goodies. Post Countdown, DJ Underground made hands swing and feet tap by spinning the hottest party hits in town.
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MUMBAI: Sony Music has bagged the music rights of A R Rahman's next project Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya. The music was launched earlier this week at the Bafta Awards with much fanfare.
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MUMBAI: Sunday turned out to be a memorable day for the audience of BIG 92.7 FM as they got to hear the 3 Idiots – Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi and R Madhavan, live & exclusive on their favorite radio station. The stars visited the BIG 92.7 FM studio to promote their latest blockbuster and connected with the Mumbai listeners of the station. They also did a multi-city connect with their fans across India. The event was further filled with excitement with BIG 92.7 FM's search for Sabse ...
MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the first and Number one fm station of North Bengal have teamed up with Siliguri food festival committee to organise the fifth Food and Tourism Festival will be held at Kanchenjunga Stadium at Siliguri from 9 to 13 January. This festival draws huge crowd from all over region. Various competitions are held during this event.
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MUMBAI: NINE on 91.9 FM the first FM station of Sikkim partnered The Namprikdang Namsoong Festival 2009 – Winter Festival (Lepcha), organized by the Local authorities under the aegis of Mangan Tourism Development Corporation to mark the beginning of the New Year.
The Namprikdang Namsoong Festival 2009 – one of the major festivals of Lepchas kicked off to a colourful start from 17th December 2009 at Namprithang, Mangan, North Sikkim.
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MUMBAI: It definitely can't get bigger than this, after partnering with this year's super hit flick �3 Idiots', India's No 1 FM Station Network, BIG 92.7 FM draws the curtains on 2009 with Bollywood's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan doing the annual year-end roundup, exclusively on the radio station, offering listeners the best imagined aural treat to end the year. Playing the character of media magnet Vijay Harshwardhan Mallik from his forthcoming movie Rann, the newsmaker turns news anch...
MUMBAI: New Year's eve events at prominent venues in Mumbai may get jeopardised due to the issuing of legal notices by licensing body PPL to defaulting hotels and pubs for not securing licences for public performances for the scheduled events.
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MUMBAI: The much anticipated New Year's Eve is just a few hours away. Clubs, restaurants, joints are gearing up for the day which brings them business and keeps them on their toes. But the fun is going to be different in different metros around India.
Mumbai will party till 4 am on 1 January 2010 - and is the most fortunate city in this respect. Bangloreans will have to stop at 1 am, while Pune and Delhi around 12:30 am - that makes Mumbai the best place to party on Thursday evening. The city that never sleeps will also be a destination which will party while it's awake.
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MUMBAI: The news of Worldspace Radio shutting down has shocked its subscribers in India, a country that housed 95 per cent of its subscription base. Music lovers are aggrieved at the abrupt termination of the music service from 31 December.
It is the loss of music that the users are upset about most, over the monetary damages they will have to bear.
Says a Worldspace regular, "It was the only thing that kept the music alive to the best of quality and diversity. It really feels s...
