MUMBAI: Radio Mango and Big FM have both brought home bronze world medals from the New York Festivals radio advertising awards, just announced.
Mango has bagged the Bronze World Medal for its station ID while Big FM's Halla Bol has secured a Bronze world Medal in the Best Sound category.
All three of Radio City's finalist entries have returned with a Finalist Certificate. Radio City RJ Praveen had been shortlisted for the best personality award for his show , Great Indian Coun...
MUMBAI: Technology changed the course of way we listen and produced music. Though computers and digital formats maybe the most widely used media now, the precurser to this was the Sony Walkman which started the 'music on the go' revolution.
The Sony Walkman, the clunky portable cassette player, has been named the best musical invention of the last 50 years, by T3 magazine. Walkman's victory comes in the same week in which it has celebrated its 30th birthday.
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NEW DELHI: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has issued warnings to music Channel [V] asking it not to commit repeated violations of the Programme and Advertising Codes.
Channel [V] has come under the scanner for the reality beauty show Get Gorgeous 5 last year.
The warning has been given under Section 20 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and under provisions of the Uplinking Guidelines.
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MUMBAI: TDPradio, the Belgium-based dance music radio station has started broadcasting its unique dance music channel to listeners across Asia using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM).
Dance music lovers can now tune into the station in pure digital quality via DRM short wave and enjoy high quality dance music no matter which Asian country they are living in. TDPradio has been broadcasting across Europe and the north east United States since 2003 when it was the first dance music radio station to use DRM to reach listeners.
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At one point, everyone needs a sturdy no-nonsense phone which offers all the basic features and does not cost a bomb. The Nokia 5130 XpressMusic is exactly the kind - one of the most affordable handsets from the Finnish manufacturer that has come our way.
The newest kid on the block from Nokia targets the budget segment of the market with an attractive price tag. It manages to include all the features that one might desire of a good music phone, making it a very good package.
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MUMBAI: Hissar based Radio Tarang, a venture of Singla Properties, faces the threat of getting its commercial FM radio license revoked as it has failed to pay the requisite annual fee and has been non-operational since September 2008.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcast on 22 May issued a warning notice to Singla Properties providing a last opportunity to rectify defaults and submit reasons as to why license granted to establish, maintain and operate and FM station must not be revoked.
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MUMBAI: MTV's new offering is its new reality series Kurkure Desi Beats Rock On with MTV, that captures the entire process of the hunt for India's new Desi Rock Band.
Kailash Kher, Ram Sampath, and MTV VJ Nikhil Chinapa will judge the participants of this new hunt, that comes close on the success of MTV's latest season of the Roadies. If you are one of those rockstars in need of a band but have never known where to look, you can try your luck here.
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MUMBAI: Composer Monty Sharma who won accolades for his film Saawariya is all ready to get the ball rolling this year. The composer has 17 movies on his platter to be released in 2009- 2010.
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MUMBAI: He is defined by multi-tasking. RJing, VJing, acting and now singing - RJ Anuj has changed many tracks.
The Hyderabad based Anuj recently debuted as a playback singer for musician M M Kreem's compositions. I have sung for the Telugu film, Magadheera starring Ram Charan Teja, son of filmstar Chiranjeevi.... I started my radio career at All India Radio and now I gave an interview on AIR for my new song. I have come full circle, it seems,... he says enthusiastically.
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