MUMBAI: India's leading radio station, 94.3 MY FM celebrated the birthday of its humor character �MY Chingum Boy' on the occasion of Children's Day. Chingum Boy is the funniest kid around as he gives MY FM listeners a reason to smile and laugh time & again in a true Jiyo Dil Se style, hence the radio network honored him by celebrating his birthday on the occasion of Children's Day.
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MUMBAI: CD Baby, the largest distributor of music by independent artists in the world, has now paid over $200 million directly to musicians. At the current rate of well over $40 million in commissions paid to unsigned artists each year, the company expects to cross the quarter billion dollar threshold in 2012.
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NEW DELHI: To commemorate 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, renowned filmmakers Buddhadeb Das Gupta and Rituparno Ghosh have planned to make films and television series.
While Dasgupta is producing 13 short films on 13 poems of Tagore, Ghosh will make a documentary titled �Home and the Word'. The films have been approved by the screening committee under the chairmanship of veteran writer-director Shyam Benegal, along with financial assistance from the Government.
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MUMBAI: Nokia has announced the launch of much-awaited Nokia Lumia smartphones series based on Windows Phone in the Indian market.
The Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 will be available across key cities and towns by mid-December, the price is yet to be announced.
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MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group has announced the promotion of David Kokakis and Monti Olson.
Kokakis has been appointed as SVP-head of business & legal affairs/business development and Olson as EVP-head of pop & rock music, creative. Both of them will report directly to UMPG president North America Evan Lamberg and will be based in the company's world-wide headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
Robert Allen SVP/head of business and legal Affairs and Tom Sturges EVP/head of Creative will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
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MUMBAI: With a 280% increase in mobile global shipments in 2011, android smartphones have attained a global market share of 32% from 13% in 2010, according to the �Android Device Base Database by Vendor' report.
The report points out that with the entry of Indian and Chinese vendors into the market, the race to lower android smartphone prices is gaining momentum, which in consequence has lead to the early emergence of mid-tier android devices.
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MUMBAI: BBC World Service broadcasts will receive a grant of Ł90m from UK Government, less than a year after the body revealed cuts to jobs and services.
Last year, foreign office moved the responsibility of funding the service to BBC, following which the corporation unveiled plans to close five of its 32 world language services and axe up to 650 jobs over three years.
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MUMBAI: The DRM consortium organized a meeting in New Delhi recently, bringing together various stakeholders to discuss issues dealing with the roll-out of DRM Digital radio technology in India.
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MUMBAI: Delhi will be engulfed with the power pitched mesmerizing voice of Daler Mehndi as the Bhangra sensation performs at Talkatora Stadium on 15th of November. The concert, presented by Saifi Films and Punjabi Kesari, starts at 6.00 pm and promises to be a highlight on the 2011 social calendar.
The �Powerhouse of Performance', Mehndi's high voltage performances are believed to create an atmosphere that is highly electric. His earlier concerts and live performances had crowds ...
MUMBAI: Bangalore-based spiritual, multi-lingual, satellite television channel Sri Sankara TV is gearing up to launch a new talent hunt show in search of the best bhajan group in south India.
The show - Bhajan Samraat - will premiere on 1 December and will be aired every Thursday-Friday at 7 pm."Bhajan Samraat is a big initiative and we take pride in introducing the concept of reality into the devotional space. We aim to give opportunities to the prodigies to showcase their talent," the channel said.
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