MUMBAI: Michael Buble's highly anticipated "Christmas" album - his holiday gift to fans around the globe is being released today, October 24th. "Christmas" is the record the multi-Grammy winning Canadian has been dreaming about making for years. "It's always been my favorite holiday and I knew that one day I would record the ultimate Christmas record. I wanted it to sound and feel very authentic -- pretty much like a live studio album. I'm very proud of it," commented Buble. "Christmas" follows up his critically acclaimed "Crazy Love" CD, which sold over seven million copies worldwide....
MUMBAI: Radio One, the joint venture between Next Mediaworks Limited (earlier Mid-Day Multimedia Limited) and BBC worldwide, is scouting for investors even as its promoters are converting part of the debt to equity to reduce over gearing.
The company, which operates Radio One FM stations in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Ahmedabad, is gung ho about phase III expansion and is looking at it as an opportunity to improve its business efficiency in the metros.
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NEW DELHI: Even as Nimbus remains adamant about sharing broadcasting rights with All India Radio, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to take immediate action to ensure that the commentary of the on-going one-dayers between England and India should be given live to AIR.
The Ministry has said that the rights for AIR should not be clubbed with the rights given to Doordarshan under the Sports Broadcasting (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act.
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MUMBAI: Fever FM, the radio arm of HT Media, has swung into operating loss. For the quarter ended September, it has reported an operating loss of Rs 45.4 million compared to an Ebitda profit of Rs 2.8 million a year ago.
Revenue, however, rose 12 per cent to Rs 157 million during the fiscal second-quarter, as against Rs 141 million in the earlier year.
HT Media has employed a capital of Rs 832.7 million in its radio business, according to data provided till 30 September 2011. Fever FM operates FM stations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.
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After the huge success of Taal in 1999, Mozart of Madras AR Rahman has again churned magic in the musically oriented entertainer ‘Rockstar’ which brings many commercially bankable names in the credits. Teaming up for the first time with Imtiaz Ali the duo have bundled some melodious tunes. Even though the title Rockstar gives impression of rock and punk styled tracks, the virtuoso has introduced some new sounds like Sufi rock and flamenco rather than going for most obvious rock. The albu...
MUMBAI: EMI to release Grammy-winning, multi-platinum group Coldplay's fifth studio album, �Mylo Xyloto' on 24 October worldwide.
The album is composed by Brian Eno and produced by Markus Dravs, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson.
Starting tomorrow, Vh1 India will stream songs from the album for three days leading up to the album's release. �Mylo Xyloto' will be released in digital, CD and vinyl format, fans can also long onto ...
MUMBAI: Times Music has launched Raghav Sachar's devotional album �Gayatri', symphonic version of the famous Gayatri Mantra in a contemporary form.
The album compiles of four tracks including Gayatri Mantra, Om Jai Jagdish with the instrumental version of each, arranged and programmed by Raghav Sachar. The album also consists of Gayatri Mantra video.
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MUMBAI: Veteran poet-lyricist Gulzar was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI), a Reliance Entertainment initiative.
Oscar winner lyricist-director Gulzar Saab was felicitated for his outstanding contribution to cinema for a career spanning over five decades.
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MUMBAI: Saregama has launched devotional album �Sai Nathya Namah Namah' rendered in the voice of Shri Chandra Bhanu Satpathyji.
The spiritual album consists of soothing mantra that reveals devotional ecstasy in the form of prayers.
Saregama business head music Adarsh Gupta said, This album is very special as it has the sacred chants of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba rendered in the voice of Guruji. We believe that it will delight the followers of Sai Baba with its unique divine experience and we are proud to be a part of this spiritual journey....
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MUMBAI: Inimitable singer Asha Bhosle has entered the Guinness World Records for the most single studio recordings. The 78-year-old has recorded up to 11,000 solos, duets and chorus-backed songs in over 20 Indian languages since 1947.
Bhosle, who has evergreen numbers like 'Dum maro dum', 'Mehbooba mehbooba' ('Sholay'), 'Piya tu ab to aaja' ('Caravan') and 'Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko'('Yaadon ki Baraat') to her credit, was conferred with the Guinness honour at the Asian awards f...
