LV, as LV Krishnan, the CEO of TAM Media Research is fondly known, is one of India's most respected media professionals and an authority on media research with more than 18 years of rich experience. After completing post-graduation in Mathematics and Astrophysics, he became part of the Indian Media planning community in 1992, when he joined Mediacom (Grey India) to work on Bayer and P&G brands, after which, in 1995, he joined JWT to take custody of me...
MUMBAI: Tips Industries has seen a 50.92 per cent drop in its net profit for the three-month period ended 30 September, pulled down by its movie production and distribution business.
Tips net revenue for the quarter under review was at Rs 22.32 million, down from Rs 45.47 million in the year-ago period.
Tips' income from operations surged 22.59 per cent during the quarter to Rs 115.68 million, as against Rs 94.37 million.
Expenses, however, rose 145.97 per cent to Rs 80.42 million, mainly on account of film distribution and production costs.
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MUMBAI: Nokia's music service, Ovi Music Store, is giving its consumers and Indian rock lovers an opportunity to download legal, good quality digital soundtracks from the recently launched Syd Barrett album, An Introduction To Syd Barrett. Barrett is the founder member and former vocalist of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd.
Apart from that, Nokia will also give out exclusive Barrett posters to the first 200 users who download the album from Ovi Music Store.
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MUMBAI: Karbonn Mobiles has unveiled a new handset for music lovers, the Karbonn K406.
The dual-SIM handset comes with both FM as well as multiple-format playback and a loudspeaker output. It supports MP3 and MIDI formats ff music (Midi, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, Melody, AMR-WB, AAC+, eAAC). Users can play songs in the background while they browse the phone. It sports an expandable memory of up to 8GB, offers one-touch FM channel change, FM alarm, FM recording and playback and FM loudspea...
MUMBAI: Table Tennis Star Subhajit Saha was Live at Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the first and Number One Fm station of North Bengal. In a historic first, India's men's doubles team won the Commonwealth Games gold, beating Singapore in a hotly contested five-game final. The team of Subhajit Saha and Achanta Sharath Kamal won the Gold.
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NEW DELHI: Radio Mirchi's content will now be available to Reliance mobile subscribers on their mobile phones even in the most remote locations in the country.
This follows a tie-up between Spice Global Group, Reliance Communications Ltd (RCOM), and Entertainment Network India Limited which is the holding company of Radio Mirchi.
The tie-up will provide an innovative value added service on the IVR platform on all the networks of Reliance.
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MUMBAI: Demand and crave for music has been the strong point in India, with film music being rigorously played in weddings and religious functions. And where does the songs come from? They are downloaded from several websites catering to illegal downloads of music and films.
In its endurance to help users search for legal online streams and downloads, Google Inc. today launched a music service in India to combat growing digital piracy.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi listeners had the opportunity to hear the versatile actor Manoj Bajpai and promising newcomer Pallavi Sarda on Thursday morning when they came on Mumbai's No 1 show �Hi Mumbai' and chatted with RJ Jeeturaaj. Live on air on Mumbai's hottest station Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, they spoke in length about their upcoming film �Dus Tola'.
The extremely talented Manoj was heard engaging in a warm and friendly conversation with RJ Jeeturaaj where the two were heard pulling each other's leg!
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