MUMBAI: BSNL has tied up with Hungama Digital Media Entertainment to offer On-Demand Entertainment Store for its broadband users.
This first-of-its-kind service in India will offer 50,000 songs and 1,000 videos in various languages. BSNL consumers can also get access to over 500 games as they subscribe to the digital store.
The services on the digital store are available at competitive price points of Unlimited Music Downloads for Rs 149 per month and Unlimited Game Downloads for Rs 49 per month.
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MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company and Super Cassettes Industries Ltd (T-Series) have amicably settled their differences.
T-Series will withdraw from being a co-producer after receiving the entire payment from Percept. On Thursday, T-Series threatened to take legal action against PPC if it released Nagesh Kukunoor's 8X10 Tasveer, due for release on 3 April.
T-Series claimed a cheque of Rs 66.7 million (cheque No. 897813) issued by PPC was dishonoured by the bank. Subsequently, PPC ...
MUMBAI: Reality shows have multiplied by millions but most of them have become monotonous in nature. Whenever a new reality show comes up, the makers boast how different their show is from the rest. However, when the action begins, what the viewers get to see is the same old thing.
But this time the viewers may be in for a surprise. They will now get to see a different genre of music in a reality show. And to add to that it will also bring peace of mind and take you closer to God, clai...
MUMBAI: Bafta award winner Jane Berthoud has been appointed as head Radio Comedy at the BBC. She will be the first woman to hold this post.
Berthoud replaces Paul Schlesinger, who moved to BBC's TV comedy department in January. She will report to BBC head of comedy Mark Freeland from 4 May, relieving current acting head Gareth Edwards. Edwards will be returning to his role as producer in BBC production television and radio.
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MUMBAI: HD Digital Radio Alliance, a joint initiative of leading radio broadcasters to accelerate the rollout of HD Radio, announced that 1,000 multicast stations are now being broadcast on-air and 100 SKUs are available at retail.
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MUMBAI: MySpace India announced the appointment of Sandeep Suvarna as Senior Marketing Manager for India operations, on Friday.
Suvarna comes in place of Tarun Tripathi, who quit as marketing and content director earlier this month. MySpace India country head had said at the time that Tripathi's position would be changed to ' a slightly different role'.
Suvarna would now be responsible for driving the marketing strategy, public relations and distribution of Myspace products fo...
MUMBAI: Entertainment Network India Ltd. (ENIL) Thursday announced that AP Paragi will continue to serve as the managing director of the company for the next two years, without any interruption in service.
Paragi's stay at ENIL will continue till 31 July 2011, effective from 1 August, 2009, the company said in an announcement on Thursday.
ENIL operates 32 FM stations under the Radio Mirchi brand and out-of-home (OOH) media under the Times OOH name.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi has appointed Yatish Mehrishi as the new Cluster Head and New Delhi Station Director. He replaces Shrinivasa Shenoy, who quit the organisation in January this year.
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MUMBAI: Zee Marathi is ready to launch the sixth season of Saregamapa within three years of the inception of the popular music reality show on the channel.
Following the success of the recently concluded Saregamapa Li'l Champs, the channel will launch the next season Saregamapa - Maharashtra Cha Aajcha Awaaz on 30 March.
The show will have 10 established Marathi singers - five males and five females - as contestants. Noted music composer Pt Hridaynath Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar will be donning the judge's hat this time.
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MUMBAI: Airtel, Karnataka's number one mobile network, has joined hands with Big 92.7 FM, Bangalore's No. 1 FM Station for an initiative titled Bekadashtu Bella... UGADI initiative. As part of this initiative, 50 kiosks have been set up across Bangalore to distribute Bevu-Bella to as many people as possible and wish them joy and good fortune this UGADI - the Kannada New Year. Airtel hello tunes scratch cards will be offered to those receiving Bevu-Bella from the kiosks and few lucky ones also stand to win Airtel goodies.
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