Mumbai: Following the high decibels of hype and excitement in cities across the country, Chipak Ke Jeeto, India's biggest Radio Realty Show and the biggest endurance test of all times, presented by BIG 92.7 FM in association with Hyundai Motors' newly launched Hyundai i10 kick started on the eve on January 11, 2007 across the cities of Mumbai at In Orbit Mall, Delhi at MGF mega city, Gurgaon, Kolkata at Eedf ground and Hyderabad at Prasad Imax. The on ground arrangements are being put togethe...
Mumbai: The first of the clutch of film awards this year is out, and the music honours have staked their claim in the spotlight. The results of Nokia Star Screen Awards, out recently, have picked out the best of the lot, some of these reserved for that gem of 2007, Taare Zameen Par, which bagged six categories in all. The awards for Best Music and Best Background Music were held by A R Rahman. The most meaningful song of the year, penned by Prasoon Joshi, got him the Best Lyricist award. Shreya Ghoshal and Soham Chakraborty were pronounced as the Best Femal...
After completing almost five decades in the field of playback singing, the first National Award (when it was instituted) winner in 1968 for the song 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti,'Mahendra Kapoor celebrated his 74th birthday on 9 January 2008. Even now, he is enthusiastic about practising and teaching music. Radioandmusic.com's Aaishwari Chouhan involves him in a frank conversation....
NEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today announced a further postponement in Phase II of bidding for FM licenses. This follows the Delhi High Court's dismissal of a review petion filed by the ministry against an earlier court order allowing Radio Today to bid if it fulfilled certain conditions. Following court's dismissal of the petition, the ministry was forced to postpone the bidding due to several complications, and this has triggered widespread confusion amongst industry leaders....
MUMBAI: Sharing a lighter moment with Nagesh Kukunoor while promoting their film Bombay to Bangkok on Zee TV's L'il Champs, Shreyas Talpade said "I think I should donate a share of my earnings to Zee TV. I owe my success to the channel and particularly, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" The actor who wowed the nation with his easygoing portrayals in films like Dor and Om Shanti Om, has promoted all his successful films on Zee's music reality shows, year after year. It all started with Dor that he promoted on Li'l Champs 2006.
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MUMBAI: There is a big surprise in store for viewers of K for Kishore. The show which is a big hit with all Kishore Kumar fans has now inspired a singer to join the show as a celebrity contestant! The singer in question is popular Marathi singer – Milind Ingle. What could possible make a popular singer take part in a reality show?
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MUMBAI: Recognized as India's leading music channel, Channel [v] continues to set benchmarks in youth programming and TV content. And now the cutting edge creative innovation conceptualized by the channel has been recognized by the prestigious Proggy Awards. The most animal friendly TV channel was conferred upon [v] for running animal-friendly youth programming that creates awareness and educates the audiences to get more active on animal right issues.
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MUMBAI: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), that provides content to a clutch of private FM stations in India, is launching two new radio programmes, BBC- Take One and BBC Fun n Games this week. According to BBC's India Development Manager Vineeta Dwivedi, both shows are cast in the 'radio magazine' format, the first such in the country. Both shows will be made available to FM stations subscribing to its current content, according to the BBC.
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MUMBAI: The Kolkata radio station Friends 91.9 FM plans to give the people of Kolkata an opportunity to host their own show from the comfort of their homes.
The show, titled 'Bari Theke Bolchi', goes on air from 14 January and will be aired from 10 pm to 11 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The methodology is simple – call into a dedicated phone number, leave a 45 second message about yourself, and the station selects one person per day from those, and all he/she has to do...
