MUMBAI: Radio One held a star studded preview of the Bollywood movie Via Darjeeling in Mumbai. Sonali Kulkarni, Simone Singh and Sandhya Mridul along with Director Arindam Nandy joined Radio One contest winners and the city's who's who at the screening of the film at PVR cinemas. Present on the occasion were a host of stars including Om Puri, Chairman of the NFDC, Puja Bedi, Meena Gupta, Vidya Malavde, Hard Kaur, Suchitra Pillai, Sudhir Mishra, Shobha Khote, Meghna Naidu, Aditi Govitrikar, Ne...
MUMBAI: Radio Misty has launched 'I am sweet' campaign on 25 June. A special badge will be provided to all listeners of Radio Misty that would say 'I am sweet, certified by Radio Misty'.
Radio Misty CEO Nishat Mittal says, "This unique campaign would cover all major towns of North Bengal. Misty in Bengal means sweet, we want Radio Misty to stay close to people's heart being the first players of North Bengal market."
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MUMBAI: The new N series version of Nokia N78 was launched in the US market on 24 June. The smart phone packs 3G capabilities, integrated Wi-Fi, assisted GPS, and an FM transmitter.
The phone has plenty of options for music lovers. It features a microSD slot letting users hold up to 8 GB of music that can be played on the multimedia player. The device is capable of stereo Bluetooth, and it also has an FM transmitter that allows users to send music from the device to a car stereo.The ph...
MUMBAI: The Universal Music Group (UMG) will market and distribute Disney Music products in both the physical and digital formats in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, effective immediately. India will be included in the agreement, with effect from October, says a report in Hollywood reporter.
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MUMBAI: Music and lifestyle channel Vh1 has announced that its Dance 101's first initiative in India brings the Ministry of Sound - On Tour.
This tour consists of three events back-to-back in Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi on 2, 3 and 4 July respectively.
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MUMBAI: Kolkata based Friends FM has launched a volume of contemporary Bangla songs, Anandgaan Vol 1.
Released on 18 June as a part of its new brand positioning exercise, the CD is infused with a 'lot of experimenting in music, sound and musical instruments'.
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Indian remix guru, DJ Akbar Sami shot to fame with his first remix album'Jalwa'. There has been no looking back since.A veteran now, Sami intends to float a DJ association and start educating aspirants to the field, by early 2009. Some of the recognitions that have come his way over the years include, the All Asian DJ Championship and Channel [V]'s Best Indian Club DJ. He tried his hand at remixing some of the Bollywood numbers too, to finally become a music director himself, with...
MUMBAI: The six stations of Radio One and the Kochi based Radio Mango are celebrating 25 years of India's sole cricket world cup win with day long on air initiatives.
Radio Mango's exercise, termed "1983 LIVE", will air real time updates exactly as and when it happened on 25 June 1983 through this segment, along with interesting facts and trivia related to cricketers and cricket,interviews of celebrities analysing the match after its first innings, as they had done 25 years ago. 1983 Live started at 7.15 am and will include details from toss to post match presentation ceremony.
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MUMBAI: Fever FM has tied with ESPN Star Sports to provide unique and exclusive content of the Star Cricket Asia Cup from 24 June to 6 July.
As part of the tie-up, the FM station has lined up special shows which include Asia Cup Special Morning Shows, Cricket Without Borders, and Mauj Ki Fauj Contest.
In Asia Cup Special Morning Show, Fever 104 will link up with the ESPN Star Cricket commentary team at the venue to provide their insights and perspective, and set the tone and mood for the days game.
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