MUMBAI: There has been a 21 per cent drop in radio channel promotion on television during January - October 2008, as compared to January - October 2007.
Living Media India topped in radio channel promotions on TV during January - October 2008, with its Meow FM being promoted aggressively across all mediums. Fever 104 FM, HT Media's radio station was advertised maximum on TV during January - October 2008.
Overall, however, radio stations' promotions registered a 21 per cent dro...
MUMBAI: All India Radio's children and youth show 'Our Home, The Planet Earth' has won special commendation at the the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union's ABU Prizes 2008, announced in Bali on 24 November 2008.
Among the winners in the radio category are - Legacy Disposal Squad (NHK, Japan) - drama, Smile, Joy and Wonderful, Flip The Expectation (KBS, Korea)- infotainment, A Handless City: Viruses and Hands, Which Is More Lethal To Children? (RTHK, Hong Kong) - Children & Youth (Radio), Repeated Abortions (RTHK, Hong Kong) - News (Radio),
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MUMBAI: BBC World Service director Nigel Chapman is leaving the corporation after 31 years to become chief executive of children's charity Plan International.
Chapman has been director of the World Service since 2004 and has previously been director of BBC Online and controller of English Regions. Chapman has also worked as a producer and editor on a number of news and current affairs programmes, says a report in the Guardian.
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MUMBAI: Nokia India on Tuesday announced the scheduled launch of the beta version of the Nokia Music Store, and has struck up content partnership with the Indian Music India (IMI) that will give it access to a host of international and Indian music companies' music.
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MUMBAI: Zee's music talent hunt Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 first runner up Raja Hasan is ready with his solo album, two years after his share of television fame.
Says Raja, The album has been composed by my father Rafiq Sagar and has seven tracks. It is ready for release early next year.... The album is ready to be launched by a Delhi based label, he says.
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MUMBAI: BBC Radio 3 commemorates the 400th anniversary of the birth of poet John Milton (1608–74) with a host of programmes exploring his life and works next month from 7 December 2008 - 2 January 2009.
Milton was also a polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, his treatise Areopagitica and his radical republican views and thoughts on divorce.
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MUMBAI: At least 100 new FM transmitters with 100-watt capacity will be set up by All India Radio in remote localities of the North East, including Sikkim, during the 11th Plan period to boost transmission in the area.
According to a report in the Assam Tribune, 19 more FM transmitters with one-kilowatt capacity are also in the pipeline in the region during the period. This was stated by All India Radio, New Delhi's engineer-in-chief H R Singh, while inaugurating the Fourth Zonal Conference of the engineering heads of AIR stations of the NE region at Guwahati last weekend.
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MUMBAI: Sunoh.fm has launched its Social Music Discovery Application for Orkut's Open Social Platform, becoming the first startup to provide a converged application enabling social discovery of Indian music to Orkut users.
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MUMBAI: Media marketing company Reasonable Communications' �T-10 Gully Cricket', which will kick off on 15 January 2009 has roped in singers Kailash Kher and Raja Hassan to sing the promotional track of the series.
The music for the track has been composed by Rohit Sharma. Says the composer, While briefing me about the concept, the organisers suggested that the song should command an anthem tone and have a Delhi street feel to it, as it is all about Gully (street) cricket....
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