MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV - the DTH service from Bharti Airtel – today announced that it would be replacing the 10 WorldSpace Satellite Radio channels on its DTH platform with 10 All India Radio channels effective January 1, 2010. This replacement would be automatic and at no additional cost for all subscriber of the Music Plus Top Up and for those who were receiving the WorldSpace channels as part of their subscription pack.
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MUMBAI: Sony Music has bagged the music rights of A R Rahman's next project Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya. The music was launched earlier this week at the Bafta Awards with much fanfare.
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MUMBAI: New Year's eve events at prominent venues in Mumbai may get jeopardised due to the issuing of legal notices by licensing body PPL to defaulting hotels and pubs for not securing licences for public performances for the scheduled events.
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MUMBAI: The much anticipated New Year's Eve is just a few hours away. Clubs, restaurants, joints are gearing up for the day which brings them business and keeps them on their toes. But the fun is going to be different in different metros around India.
Mumbai will party till 4 am on 1 January 2010 - and is the most fortunate city in this respect. Bangloreans will have to stop at 1 am, while Pune and Delhi around 12:30 am - that makes Mumbai the best place to party on Thursday evening. The city that never sleeps will also be a destination which will party while it's awake.
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MUMBAI: If the songs of 3 Idiots gave wings to your imagination when you first heard them, watching them on the big screen will complete the fantasy.
It's an awesome team that has put together the music of 3 Idiots and then woven it into the screenplay - Raju Hirani, shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire - all of whom appear to have immersed themselves in the core concept of the film to craft lyrics, music and situations that blend in seamlessly with the story, not to mention create just...
BANGALORE: Kannada Sugama Sangeeth and theater artiste and film music composer C Ashwath's death on his seventy first birthday yesterday was followed by the demise of Kannada film thespian Vishnuvardhan in the early hours of Wednesday morning of cardiac arrest in Mysore. Vardhan was a film actor and a singer.
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MUMBAI: Oscar winning music maestro A R Rahmnan has been voted as the Indian of the year in a poll conducted by MSN for its readers. Winning with a thumping majority, among a line-up of leaders from politics, business and non-government sectors the ace musician got a clear public mandate securing 22 per cent of the votes leaving behind the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Gandhi, Nandan Nilekani and Madhavan Nair.
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MUMBAI: After obtaining injunctions in Tier 2 cities in Karnatka and Tamil Nadu last week, Indian Music Industry's licensing arm- Public Performance License (PPL) is targeting venues in the national capital.
PPL on Tuesday secured an order from the Delhi High Court directing malls, pubs to pay the license fee before playing music on the occasion of New Year's eve. The court further directed that they would continue to pay the license fee fixed by the court in September 2005 along with a 15 per cent addition to it
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NEW DELHI: Music channel MTV has forayed into everything from shoes to credit cards and mobile phones to provide a �different revenue stream and touch base with the audiences', says Viacom 18 vice president (Communications and Consumer Products) Sandeep Dahiya.
However, in a brief interview with Radioandmusic.com, Dahiya insisted that music-based programmes will remain the focus of the channel.
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MUMBAI: The popularity of web music searches is hardly unknown. As 2009 comes to an end, Guruji.com, a popular music search engine released a list for the 'Top Music Searches of 2009'. So what exactly is it that bollywood music lovers have been searching for?
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