MUMBAI: BBC World Service will broadcast live commentary from the biggest royal wedding of the century -- the marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton on Friday, 29th April, 2011. The event is expected to attract a global audience of over a billion, and in addition to coverage on the day, the BBC's international news services has a line-up of special content and programming in the build-up to the event
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MUMBAI: Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Black, who, until a few weeks ago, was completely unknown, has become the world's biggest YouTube star for the 30-day-period ending 17 April, according to Famecount.com, the social media statistics service.
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MUMBAI: Rich tributes were paid to late playback singer Mukesh at a musical function organized by cultural society Jan Gayak Mukesh Manch on Sunday, 17 April 2011, at Azad Bhawan Auditorium, New Delhi.
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MUMBAI: Songs from Shor In The City have zoomed on the popularity charts on Radio within a week of the album’s launch. Saibo, sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Tochi Raina has been the Number One played out song, and Karma Is A Bitch, sung by Suraj Jagan, Priya Panchal and Swati Mukund, entered the charts at Number Ten (source: Aircheck). The tracks are jointly created by Balaji and Sony Music India....
MUMBAI: Taufiq Qureshi's album, The Art of Indian Fusion Drumming, a two-DVD set, was launched by Ultimate Guru Music in Mumbai on Saturday. Qureshi unveiled the album containing three hours of High Definition videos, and also played on the Djembe – his newly-developed language for playing traditional Indian Tabla beats.
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MUMBAI: Radio One, which prides itself for being India’s only music station, has announced the elevation of its key team members starting with Rajeev Bhandari who is now COO, up from National Sales Head. He will now be the business head of the Radio play and will continue to report into the Managing Director, Vineet Singh Hukmani. Rajeev Bhandari has handed over his station responsibilities of Delhi to Rajesh Ranjan, who is now elevated to Station Director Delhi, and Eathesham Azam, who becomes Station Director Kolkata....
Rohit Jagdale, CEO of Techno Creations and Consultant to Radio Nagar 90.4 FM, the first Community Radio Station (CRS) in Maharashtra which is on air for 18 hours, seven days a week, tells Poonam Ahuja of the challenges a CRS faces in its mission to reach, inform and educate its target community Government-stipulated curbs like a 5-minutes-per-hour ad inventory at an abysmally low ad rate of Re 1 per second, their short 5-year license periods and much ...
MUMBAI: MTV India has decided to hike its ad rates even as it has readied international format show launches, something the youth-music genre has found it difficult to enforce in a cluttered environment.
The change in positioning of music channels has followed a market logic - that non-music content can command higher ad rates. Channel [V] had launched some big-ticket shows in the past for the same reason and has recently started airing a fiction show. UTV Bindass also has a mix of non-fiction and fiction shows where they claim to charge a premium.
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NEW DELHI: The Government should immediately move to either set up a Parliamentary Committee and a Broadcasting Council as envisaged under the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 or take a comprehensive look at the Act as recommended by the Group of Ministers �without any delay', a Parliamentary Committee has said.
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MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced that Star TV is using Dolby Digital Plus to deliver cinematic surround sound and premium listening experiences through four of its leading high-definition (HD) channels in India: Star Plus, Star Gold, Star Movies, and Star World....
