MUMBAI: Live! Singapore 2010, an international event for performing arts and entertainment industry which includes live performences by acclaimed artistes will be held from 8 to 11 June 2010 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore alongside the Singapore Arts Festival. It is a platform for global performing arts professionals and organisations to exchange knowledge do business and network in the Asia Pacific market.
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MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM, has announced the launch of the Fever VIP Club, touted to be India's first Radio loyalty club for its listeners.
Designed and developed for Fever's listeners , Fever VIP club will be launched on 30 November in Delhi and subsequently be launched across its network . Fever VIP club is a mobile based loyalty club and will offer Fever listeners opportunity to register as members and earn points for the time they spend listening to Fever 104 FM.
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MUMBAI: The global downturn has upset Big FM's plans to spread its footprint overseas.
The deal between Reliance Media World, the company which runs its radio business under the Big FM brand, and Singapore-based MediaCorp Network has gone kaput much before it could run its full five-year course.
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MUMBAI: Radio One has decided to stop playing BBC's entertainment capsules, after the BBC World Service's decision in July to monetize this pre-popularized entertainment content in the Indian metro markets.
The first market where they were able to do this is in Chennai where this content is supplied to Hello FM.
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MUMBAI: Red FM national marketing head and West head Anuj Singh added another trophy to his mantelpiece by winning the Young Marketing Professional of the Year Award at the CMO awards held in Indore on 20 November.
The CMO awards were instituted to celebrate and honour the country's most talented marketers and Singh's win recognises his contribution in spearheading Red FM to its leadership position.
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NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has charged the Human Resource ministry of seeking to amend the Copyright Act 1957 �surreptitiously' at the behest of the music industry, �which is now being dominated by the IPRS/PPL – the Copyright Societies, completely ignoring and sidelining the interest of the entire Broadcasting Sector as also the Public interest.'
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MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment released Pancham Unmixed – a feature length film on legendary composer R D Burman on 25 November 2009. The film Pancham Unmixed has been showcased in many International Film Festivals and won lot of accolades.
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MUMBAI: All India Radio would be carrying forward its association with Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) by live broadcasting the 2010 Commonwealth games to be held in Delhi.
AIR is contemplating to have seven and half hours of live broadcast during the games. In a recent meeting with DRM Chairperson Ruxandra Obreja and Project Director Vineeta Dwivedi earlier this month, Information and Broadcast minister Ambika Soni had reportedly stressed on the need for affordable DRM receivers for quick and efficient take-up of the technology.
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MUMBAI: Unless the BBC's Audio and Music division makes a continued progress in three areas, it may have missed its chance to claim a primary place in the lives of people born into a digital world. The three things that will make the difference are: building a creative contribution; leading digital innovation and attracting the best people.
These remarks were made by BBC Audio and music director Tim Davie during the Manchester Media Festival. Says Davie "While the BBC has made significant progress across these areas over the last year, there is much more work to do."
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