NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM, a collaboration of HT Media and Virgin Radio has launched its first ever television commercial, based on the theme, �It's all about the music'.
The TVC went on air on all general entertainment channels and music channels like MTV and Channel V from Friday night.
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MUMBAI: Big Music and Big Pictures have launched the music of Gujarati film, �Dholi Taaro Dhol Waage', marking Big's entry into mainstream Gujarati films.
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MUMBAI: Musician - singer Adnan Sami will be doing a series of concerts in the UK after a gap of three years in a tour organized by Vijay Bhola, Ashok Gadher and Jujar Singh of Safenote Ltd.
The composer singer is scheduled to perform in London with his team of musicians at the Wembley Arena on 18 and 19 October, Nottingham Arena on 11 October and at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow on 14 October.
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MUMBAI: Venus Records' director Ratan Jain has been elected president of the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP) in an election held last week.
At the meet, Ramesh Taurani and Mukesh Bhatt were elected Vice Presidents while Vashu Bhagnani and Manish Goswami have been elected Treasurers for the year ahead. Gordhan Tanwani and Ashutosh Gowariker have been elected as General Secretaries of AMPTPP.
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MUMBAI: Afghan capital Kabul will host its first ever four-day International Kabul music festival in the city next week, say reports.
It will be the first such festival in the central Asian country.
Director of music department of Ministry of Information and culture AbdulEtemadi has been quoted as saying that the four day music eventwould be held in the French Cultural Center, Qala-e-Nuh Burj, Feroz-Kohfoundation and Kabul Istiqlal High School auditorium.
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BERLIN: Trust Robin Gibb to shoot straight from the hip. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Popkomm 2008, the fromer BeeGees lead singer writer said he had no idea about IPR when he used to produce music. "My brothers and I never thought of money and IPR and rights when we wrote and created music. We did it because we loved it."
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BERLIN: "Even if the music business is not doing well on a national scale in Germany, the country's capital - Berlin is doing very well thank you," the mayor of Berlin Harald Wolf said at the opening ceremony of Popkomm.
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MUMBAI: Dandiya event organisers in Mumbai, including the Falguni Pathak starrer Sankalp and a few others who have been abstaining from paying music licence fee have given in for the licensing bodies' demand of paying royalties Most of the organisers have bought the licenses from Yashraj, Big Music and labels under the Indian Music Industry (IMI) wing.
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BERLIN – Visionaries, analysts, managers, artists, critics, lawyers, researchers, journalists have converged here for the Popkomm music festival, the international forum for the music and entertainment industries, that begins on Wednesday.
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MUMBAI: The Indian Music Industry (IMI) organised a training programme for police officers of Maharashtra to raise awareness about Intellectual Property Rights and the importance of its protection on Tuesday.
The programme was attended by over 100 police officers, representatives from 90 police stations in Mumbai suburbs stations, 30 crime branch officials, 30 social service branch officials, and some top rank police officers, including joint commissioner of Police, DCPs etc.
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