MUMBAI: UTV and Airtel will extend the Talk2Me service to regional markets like Kochi and Chandigarh, with Satinder Sartaaj, singer, composer and lyricist from Punjab, and Jagadish Kumar, a Malayalam film star. Talk2Me service is a celebrity chat platform where thousands of fans can get connected with their favorite celebrities and chat with them live on voice chat. These stars will chat on their upcoming ventures, their passion, and their likes and dislikes.
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MUMBAI: For the third year on the trot, Hello FM has bagged an exclusive radio partnership with Chennai Super Kings for the forthcoming IPL season. All the seven stations of Hello FM 106.4 will air soundbytes from Chennai Super Kings players, and will cheer for Chennai Super Kings, who won the championship in the third edition of IPL.
Rajeev Nambair, CEO & President, Hello FM, said, Hello FM is proud to be the Champion's Choice, and with this official tie-up, we at Hello FM are all set to give our advertisers and listeners a value-based association....
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MUMBAI: After organizing BIG Ugadi Music Awards and BIG Telugu Television Awards last year, 92.7 BIG FM, in association withRaj Oil Mills, announced the BIG Telugu Movie Awards on Tuesday, 15th March 2011, at BIG Cinemas, Hyderabad. The award function to be held at Shilpkala Vedika on Friday, 25 March, will see the bigwigs of the Telugu film Industry in attendance, with performances and acts by various artists....
MUMBAI: Global player in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, IODA has launched IODA Open API, the industry's first authoritative metadata and content API. Designed to increase exposure and revenue opportunities for content owners while enabling partners to monetize artist content more effectively, IODA Open API makes authoritative metadata, buy links and media assets available to partners and third party developers. The announcement was made on Tuesday, 15th March, 2011, at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
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NEW DELHI: Even as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry today denied that internal professions are denied regular appointment to the post of Director-General in Doordarshan and All India Radio, a look at the past twenty years or so shows that almost all the heads of DD or AIR were people who belonged either to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Information Service.
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MUMBAI: Fox History and Entertainment has announced the return of History Rocks with its fifth season, which is dedicated to the Woodstock Generation to music and peace.
Premiering on the channel on 2 April, this 12-part series allows music lovers a peek into the lives of rock legends of this generation and their biggest concerts. This time the series offers the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
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