20-TEN Year-ender: K Sanjay Prabhu, MD - Radio Indigo
* 2010: The hope of sweet optimism for Radio Radio today is considered a mass medium, especially when you consider the age group that it primarily caters to in India. More than 41% of the FM listenership in India is in the age category of 15-29 and generates revenue of US$ 200 million-plus and is...
Phase III on the anvil, but Royalty still dogs Radio
NEW DELHI: Like 2009, the year 2010 can also be termed as a year of promises that were not fulfilled, at least within the year. But interestingly, there was some hint towards the end of the year and early in 2011 that FM operators could hope to see some affirmative action – at least as far as...
Shridhar Subramaniam: 'Focus on your core'
Shridhar Subramaniam joined Sony Music India at its founding way back in 1996, and became MD in 2002. He has a deep understanding of the Asian region, having previously overseen Sony Music's operations in Thailand in 2006 and 2007, and in end-2010, was named President, India and the Middle East for...
20-TEN Year-ender: Atul Churamani, Head of International Business - Saregama India Limited
* A Decade of Decay Planes didn't fall out of the sky when Y2K descended at the turn of the millennium. The music business as we knew it did. The last ten years changed the music industry like never before. The business of selling recorded music (read albums) dropped from US$ 26.5 billion in 2000...
20-TEN Year-ender: Shailesh Kapoor, CEO & Co-Founder - Ormax Media
* Lessons From 2010: Listen to the Listener! Radio, or FM... as all listeners prefer to call it, is a dynamic industry, and a growing one. Every passing year solves some of the existing challenges, and throws up some new ones in return. Enough has been discussed about the Phase 3 licenses and its...
20-TEN Year-ender: Raju Singh - Composer, Musician
* 2010: A tuneful, rich year for the music industry
20-TEN Year-ender: Prem Kumar, COO - Chennai Live 104.8 FM
* 2010: Another lost opportunity for the radio industry
RAM WK 53/10: Radio Mirchi gains, AIR loses in Mumbai, Delhi
* Radio One too gains in Mumbai; Gyanvani gains in Bangalore MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi made the most appreciable gains in Mumbai and Delhi, while AIR lost the most in the same cities for the Week 53 (26th Dec '10 to 1st Jan '11) across all people 12+. Another gainer in Mumbai in the week was Radio One,...
20-TEN Year-ender: Achille Forler, MD - Deep Emotions Publishing
* 2010: The hour before the new dawn for the Music business
20-TEN Year-ender: Apurva Purohit, CEO - Radio City
* I saw only an upswing for radio in 2010
