MUMBAI: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has signed a four-year deal with the BBC to broadcast live ball-by-ball commentary on England's international cricket. This contract ensures that Test Match Special (TMS) is guaranteed on BBC up to and including 2013.
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MUMBAI: Universal Music has acquired Malaysia's largest retailer cum label Music Valley's catalogue and is now taking over its artists management agreements.
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MUMBAI: Best known for its spiritual and devotional titles, music label Times Music will now launch a classical music album, �Raga Symphony' conceived by Pandit Jasraj and presented in a symphony by his son Sharangdev, by the year end.
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MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society has obtained a Delhi High Court order against the Event and Entertainment Management Association, stating that the EEMA has no judicial interim relief to seek exemption from the payment of license fees.
According to the IPRS, the EEMA, a conglomeration of event management companies, filed a writ in the Delhi High Court in July 2008 against the IPRS, and its sibling organisation, the PPL, protesting the payment of license fees for use of music in public events.
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MUMBAI: Music label Sony BMG and social networking site ibibo.com have taken their association a notch further with the launch of an application for soon-to-be-released movie Raaz - The Mystery Continues... (RTMC).
The RTMC application on ibibo offers for the first time in India an opportunity for the audiences to Karaoke to the tracks of the movie and sing straight from their mobiles. The film will release on 23 January 2009.
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MUMBAI: Warner Music Group has asked Google-owned Youtube to remove all its content after the talks between the music content major and the video-sharing site collapsed over revenue sharing.
The order may affect hundreds of thousands of video clips, as it covers tracks by artists signed to Warner Music like Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Kid Rock, as well as songs published by its Warner/Chappel unit, which includes many artists not signed to the label.
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MUMBAI: Ethnic electronic artiste Tatva Kundalini released the album Swaraaj under the Times Music label on Monday night in Mumbai.
Consisting of 12 tracks, Swaraaj is a compilation album and features nine artsites like Aguaflames, Ambrish, A.I.A, Key Fx, Surbahar, Latrama, Kliment, Infra and Taamara from India. The album was launced by well known percussionist Taufiq Quereshi.
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NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM, the radio station from HT Music and Entertainment Company; a subsidiary of HT Media, has launched its very first television commercial for the Kannada market in Bangalore.
The TVC is slated to go on air in the first week of 2009 on Kannada Gecs.
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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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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...
