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HC to hear Sony BMG-Ashtavinayak case in Jan '09
RnMTeam 22 Dec 08 16:01 IST
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MUMBAI: The Mumbai High Court has scheduled the final hearing of the  case filed by music label Sony BMG against Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision for use of a song from Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya in its latest production, Golmaal Returns, in January 2009. ...
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Ravi Shukla crowned Star Voice of India
RnMTeam 22 Dec 08 14:08 IST
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Ravi Shukla crowned Star Voice of India MUMBAI: Delhi boy Ravi Shukla has emerged the winner of this year's television music talent hunt, Amul Star Voice of India, featured on Star Plus. In the finale held in Mumbai on Sunday, Ravi Shukla was crowned the winner by chief guest Sonu Niigaam and awarded a brand new car along with a cheque for Rs 2.5 million and a contract for his first album in conjunction with T-Series. While several critics considered runner-up Sikkim girl Saptaparna Chakraborty, a better singer, Shukl...
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Sony music, movie titles on Microvault USB flash drives
ITV 22 Dec 08 12:00 IST
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MUMBAI: Consumer electronics company Sony is bringing some of the top music and movie titles in entertainment history to consumers in an easy-to-use, portable electronic format. The company is introducing a new series of its MicroVault Click USB flash drives pre-loaded with a choice of either Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition... – the best-selling album of all time – or the movies The Da Vinci Code and Men in Black. ...
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MTV UK to cut 80 jobs
ITV 22 Dec 08 11:56 IST
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NEW DELHI: MTV UK will axe 80 jobs, or around 10 per cent of its workforce, as part of its parent company Viacom's global plan to save $250 million in 2009. London-based MTV UK and MTV International, part of Viacom's MTV Networks division, have cut between 70 and 80 jobs out of a workforce of around 750 based in Camden and Oxford Street. MTV UK, which comprises channels like MTV One, VH1 and TMF, told its staff that it would begin a 30-day consultation on the cuts which are expected to affect most of the departments. ...
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UK ready to shift to digital radio by '17: report
RnMTeam 22 Dec 08 09:29 IST
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MUMBAI: Britain could be ready to migrate from analogue to digital radio as early as 2017, according to the final report of UK's Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG). ...
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Sunburn not scorched by Goa ban on beach parties, say organisers
RnMTeam 22 Dec 08 08:59 IST
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Sunburn not scorched by Goa ban on beach parties, say organisers MUMBAI: Even as the Goa government insists that it has banned parties throughout the day from 23 December 2008 to 5 January 2009, the Percept-backed Sunburn Festival says it is on track to begin on 27 December at the popular Candolim beach. Sunburn director Nikhil Chinapa, one of the chief forces behind the venture dubbed as 'Asia's largest music festival' that will see DJs from all over the world converging in Goa, says 'Sunburn runs from 12 noon to 10 pm on private property and has t...
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