MUMBAI: Rolling Stone Magazine announced on Thursday the launch of its first-ever "Do You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star?" competition, in which 16 undiscovered acts will compete for the ultimate prize: To be the first band or artist not signed with a major label to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone.
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MUMBAI: With the Cricket World Cup beginning tomorrow, 94.3 My FM will air live cricket action for listeners across its network from 19 February to 2 April. The radio network is coming up with on-air and on-ground activities along with a cricket anthem which will revolve around the passion, craziness and obsession of the Indian cricket fans.
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MUMBAI: 92.7 BIG FM, the official radio partner for the ICC Cricket World Cup, will launch an on-air campaign, Boundaries for Books, on Saturday, in association with Reliance Life Insurance, ICC and Room to Read, to literally 'hit illiteracy for a six'. The campaign is being launched as an extension to Group Company, Reliance Life Insurance's property �Boundaries for Books', wherein every single six will provide at least 30 disadvantaged children with access to fully functional libraries with local language and English books as well as trained teachers.
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MUMBAI: Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale has been commissioned to compose the finale piece for the prestigious Bang On A Can Festival 2011 which takes place in February every year at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The People's Commissioning Fund of Bang On A Can was created to provide gifted experimental composers, such as Karsh Kale, with a unique opportunity to write for a world-renowned ensemble. This year, along with Karsh Kale, acclaimed rock band The Nationa...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Secretary Raghu Menon today announced that the Government wanted that the Central Board for Film Certification should truly be a certification and not a censorship body.
In the proposals finalized by the Ministry, he said the aim was that the CBFC should only be certifying films according to suitability of age groups and not spending time in removing scenes or insisting on cuts.
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MUMBAI: Popular late-night radio host and agony soulmate, the RJ who became a heart-J with empathic love advice on Radio City's Love Guru, which was then the highest rated show on Radio for over two years, has moved to 92.7 BIG FM where, as �J,' he is now hosting a new 3-hour late-night show that begins at 10 pm and rolls out across as many as 35 Hindi Speaking Markets of the BIG network.
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NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni today announced that the Government was planning to establish a thirteen member “National Broadcasting Content Complaints Council” headed by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge that entailed involvement of key stakeholders of the media and the entertainment industry and civil society....
BANGALORE: Radio One, through its show ‘Play Your Music Day’, is featuring interviews of cricketers from the 1983 Cricket World Cup, throughout the day today, Friday, the 18th of February. The entire day will be interspersed with interviews of champion Indian cricketers like Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Madan Lal, Kirti Azad,...
