At a time when the Indian music industry is juggling with the copyright bill, vexatious royalty issues and rampant online piracy, what would be the most desirable path for the industry to rake in the moolah ? Well, in this rapidly evolving ecosystem where such grim issues are rattling the music industry, Sony ATV/Music senior general manager digital & Publishing Vinit Thakkar suggests that publishing is a blooming business and a major revenue stream for the music industry in India....
Times Music COO Mandar Thakur has been at the forefront of music industry for over two decades. Thakur’s pedigree remains firmly rooted in the music business and its development. Prior to Times, Thakur ran a Digital Music and Media Consultancy business with a premier client list clientele including some of India’s most diverse music, mobile and internet businesses. He was till late 2009 the General Manager of Soundbuzz, Asia- Pacific /Australia /India’s largest Online and Mobile Music distribution business, and held direct management responsibility for the India mar...
From fast moving consumer goods to consumer electronics to music in markets as diverse as India, Russia, England, Poland and Fiji Islands is quite a journey. But for Saregama India business head-music Adarsh Gupta it has been quite an enriching and enjoyable one. The former Times Music head has quite a challenge on his hands: push arguably India’s oldest music label Saregama into its next phase of growth and transform it as a company which rakes in the moolah in an era of deteriorating physical sales and increasing digital consumption of music....
Ormax Media, a consumer knowledge firm specializing in the media and entertainment business offers a wide array of services in the areas of qualitative and quantitative research across television, films, radio, print, online, DTH, media agencies and advertisers, etc. Co-Founder and CEO Shailesh Kapoor, throws light on the progress of the company in the last three years, working with 80% of the top media brands across its categories, and expanding the client base to over 100 by March 2012.
With 17 years of experience in heading A&R for some of the biggest music labels in the country, Universal Music vice president - content A&R (artiste and repertoire) Rajeeta Hemwani has worked with renowned artiste and promoted new talents across all genres. In a candid, Hemwani (who is serving her notice period till 30 June) shares her experiences of heading A&R for various music labels and her views on the music scenario in India, with Poonam Ahuja.
Jasper Donat, Co-Founder of Branded and President of Music Matters, on hosting the highly-anticipated Music Matters 2011 from 24-28th May for the first time in Asia, discusses with Radioandmusic.com the progress of Music Matters in 2011 and on bringing the digital entertainment and live entertainment under one roof, with two additional events– Digital Matters and Music Matters Live with HP.
The Mumbai based Community Radio 90.8 FM Jago Mumbai celebrated its first anniversary on 1st May. Determined towards delivering the most pertinent and inimitable content for a CRS, Nitin Makasare, Station Head- Creative and Programming shares the progress, challenges and aims of 90.8 FM Jago Mumbai with Poonam Ahuja. Excerpts:
90.8 FM Jago Mumbai completed its first year on Maharashtra day. So how were the celebrations?...
Today, he is acknowledged as a young veteran and visionary in the internet space who actually helped set precedents for profitable internet businesses just before and through the now infamous dotcom bust. But when in 1999, after 10 years of harbouring dreams of becoming an entrepreneur, he actually launched Hungama.com, Neeraj Roy had experience in marketing and investment banking, and a solid grounding in ethics and integrity at the hallowed Tata Group. But he did not have a business plan. ...
Ever since tragic circumstances forced him to take charge of his illustrioius father’s mega music company, Bhushan Kumar, Chairman & MD – T-Series, has come a long way. Today, his company is valued at Rs 5000 crore and commands close to 85% of market share, he is exporting music to over 24 countries across 5 continents, and hopes to make T-Series a US$ 2bn entertainment super power soon. In conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Director Content & CSO Indiantelevison Group and Editor – RadioAndMusic.com, Bhushan Kumar speaks of his plans an...
Apurv Nagpal, Managing Director - SAREGAMA, is a man on a mission who believes in thinking and working in today’s paradigm. In conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Director Content & Chief Strategy Officer Indiantelevision Group and Editor –RadioAndMusic.com, he says vision for SAREGAMA is to make sure its content is available for anyone who wants it in whatever format -- even complete discographies, and never mind if they might end up helping the pirates. But then, he has also begun selling licenses to pirates to enable them to get legitimized. Nagpal...
The Mumbai based Community Radio 90.8 FM Jago Mumbai celebrated its first anniversary on 1st May. Determined towards delivering the most pertinent and inimitable content for a CRS, Nitin Makasare, Station Head- Creative and Programming shares the progress, challenges and aims of 90.8 FM Jago Mumbai with Poonam Ahuja. Excerpts:
90.8 FM Jago Mumbai completed its first year on Maharashtra day. So how were the celebrations?...
T Venkat Vardhan started DNA Networks in India over 20 years ago, when ground events in the country – fashion shows and sports events mainly, catered to small city based audiences. Started with a vision to provide solutions and a platform to successfully conduct an event on a scale akin to those in overseas markets, the company has come a long way, responsible for bringing in international artistes of repute to Indian shores.
In a chat with Radioandmusic.com, T Venkat Vardhan talks about the live entertainment scenario in the country.
The radio industry had criticized the HRD ministry's recent proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. The industry believes it will skew the field against them and benefit the monopolistic music companies and copyright societies.
Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Panday discusses the ramifications of the amendment, the recent meeting with the HRD Ministry and radio industry stepping into music production in a conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Anita Iyer....
A music industry veteran, Shridhar Subramaniam has been with Sony Music India since 1996 when he joined as Marketing Director. Since 2002 he has been the company's managing director and has overseen the company's growth in a continuously churning market. Since 2008, Sony Music India has grown rapidly in a fast growing market and expanded its footprint in India by entering Regional language music and also moved up the entertainment value chain by producing Bollywood movies. In a chat with Aparna Joshi, Subramaniam talks about the company's vision and outline...
It’s a relative newcomer that stepped into the south Indian music market in the late 1990s. Aditya Music has today become the king of Tollywood, creating a niche for itself in the Telugu music industry. The label now plans to venture into other south Indian markets. Aditya Music’s managing director Umesh Gupta discusses the industry, piracy issues and future prospects of the company in conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Anita Iyer.
How has the journey of Aditya Music thus far been?...
In association with sibling Mirchi Movies, Radio Mirchi has launched its maiden CSR initiative ‘Listen to my movie’. The forthcoming children’s film ‘Hari Puttar’ will be the first film to be converted into an audio film, an initiative that will help the visually challenge to enjoy the movie as well.
This week, Mirchi also announced that its recent launches have broken even operationally....
Vh1, India's only international music and lifestyle channel is known to bring down international shows and artists to India regularly. With new shows like Jazz Masters, Big Brother, Saturday Night Live, Global music Express and Yo Momma, Vh1 is scaling new heights with its programming and foray into the live music scenario.
Vh1 India Associate General Manager Ferzad Palia speaks on programming, scale-ups, and future plans of VH1 with Radioandmusic.com's Chirag Sutar - Read on....
From fast moving consumer goods to consumer electronics to music in markets as diverse as India, Russia, England, Poland and Fiji Islands is quite a journey. But for Saregama India business head-music Adarsh Gupta it has been quite an enriching and enjoyable one. The former Times Music head has quite a challenge on his hands: push arguably India’s oldest music label Saregama into its next phase of growth and transform it as a company which rakes in the moolah in an era of deteriorating physical sales and increasing digital consumption of music....
India’s first multiple channel internet radio station for international music, myopusradio.com will complete a year this month. Launched with a single channel in October 2008, myopusradio expanded with eight more channels in February 2009 and is experiencing growth in listenership. the steady growth i...
Ormax Media, a consumer knowledge firm specializing in the media and entertainment business offers a wide array of services in the areas of qualitative and quantitative research across television, films, radio, print, online, DTH, media agencies and advertisers, etc. Co-Founder and CEO Shailesh Kapoor, throws light on the progress of the company in the last three years, working with 80% of the top media brands across its categories, and expanding the client base to over 100 by March 2012.
In association with sibling Mirchi Movies, Radio Mirchi has launched its maiden CSR initiative ‘Listen to my movie’. The forthcoming children’s film ‘Hari Puttar’ will be the first film to be converted into an audio film, an initiative that will help the visually challenge to enjoy the movie as well.
This week, Mirchi also announced that its recent launches have broken even operationally....
Radio Misty has been one of the few radio stations that has managed to traverse the less trodden regions in the country's North-East. With stations in West Bengal's Siliguri and Sikkim capital Gangtok, the station caters to listeners in neighboring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh as well.
Radio Misty's CEO Nishant Mittal in conversation with Harpreet Khokhar of Radioandmusic.com, outlines his plans for the station for the months ahead.
Radio Meow has been the pioneer in positioning women as a target for their radio station and has been successful in garnering listeners. Radio Today COO Anil Srivatsa converses with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer about Meow's experiment of venturing into talk format, celeb RJs and what lies ahead for Meow in the coming year.
Excerpts:
How has the idea of focusing on women audiences been so far? ...
Prasoon Joshi has carved a niche for himself as lyricist in Hindi films by bringing in word play which is simple yet deep - an expression which organically takes the music to a newer level.
He has slashed all Bollywood lyric writing clichés and given the listeners some sensible words to hum, in the process. In spite of being a leading lyricist today, Bollywood was never a childhood influence, Joshi says. "I just stumbled into it; I just didn't know how to react when I got into this." ...
A music industry veteran, Shridhar Subramaniam has been with Sony Music India since 1996 when he joined as Marketing Director. Since 2002 he has been the company's managing director and has overseen the company's growth in a continuously churning market. Since 2008, Sony Music India has grown rapidly in a fast growing market and expanded its footprint in India by entering Regional language music and also moved up the entertainment value chain by producing Bollywood movies. In a chat with Aparna Joshi, Subramaniam talks about the company's vision and outline...
Big FM has been creating a lot of buzz in the FM space by roping in Sonu Niigaam as brand ambassador and changing its music positioning to ‘Chillax hits’. The 45 network station network consolidated its network and despite the slowdown succeeded in snapping up local advertising. Being one of the patrons of listenership measuring system RAM since its inception in late 2007, the radio station along with the Association of Radio Operators of India (AROI) is beginning to get vocal about the variance in listenership measurement data....
Radio Dhoom completed one year of its inception in August 09. Operating in Jharkhand, the station has made a mark for itself for its localized content.
Radio Dhoom CEO Sanjeev Singh in conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Harpreet Khokhar, talks about the need for local flavour in the station and the significance of localisation of content.
The radio industry had criticized the HRD ministry's recent proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. The industry believes it will skew the field against them and benefit the monopolistic music companies and copyright societies.
Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Panday discusses the ramifications of the amendment, the recent meeting with the HRD Ministry and radio industry stepping into music production in a conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Anita Iyer....
Almost a week before Resul Pookutty was honoured with a Padma Shri on India's 60th Republic Day, Radioandmusic.com's Chirag Sutar dropped into Resul Pookutty's suburban Mumbai studio - uninvited- for an interview. To Chirag's pleasant surprise, within five minutes a casually dressed bearded man walked in and introduced himself as 'Resul' - no airs- while he chattered away in Malayalam with his staff. ...
The 35 year old Amit Mathew loves to maintain a low profile. Even as he has spent the last few years bringing up Radio Mango from scratch (Amit hails from the family that runs the Malayala Manorama group of publications which floated Mango), he prefers to let the station do the talk for him. Kochi, Trichur, Calicut and Kannur have had a taste of Mango - the station was the first of the private players to hit the airwaves in Kerala) - and phase III beckons. But Mathew, general manager of the network, would rather let time have its way. In a short interview, he lets R...
In association with sibling Mirchi Movies, Radio Mirchi has launched its maiden CSR initiative ‘Listen to my movie’. The forthcoming children’s film ‘Hari Puttar’ will be the first film to be converted into an audio film, an initiative that will help the visually challenge to enjoy the movie as well.
This week, Mirchi also announced that its recent launches have broken even operationally....
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Radio Misty has been one of the few radio stations that has managed to traverse the less trodden regions in the country's North-East. With stations in West Bengal's Siliguri and Sikkim capital Gangtok, the station caters to listeners in neighboring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh as well.
Radio Misty's CEO Nishant Mittal in conversation with Harpreet Khokhar of Radioandmusic.com, outlines his plans for the station for the months ahead.
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Radio Meow has been the pioneer in positioning women as a target for their radio station and has been successful in garnering listeners. Radio Today COO Anil Srivatsa converses with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer about Meow's experiment of venturing into talk format, celeb RJs and what lies ahead for Meow in the coming year.
Excerpts:
How has the idea of focusing on women audiences been so far? ...
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Prasoon Joshi has carved a niche for himself as lyricist in Hindi films by bringing in word play which is simple yet deep - an expression which organically takes the music to a newer level.
He has slashed all Bollywood lyric writing clichés and given the listeners some sensible words to hum, in the process. In spite of being a leading lyricist today, Bollywood was never a childhood influence, Joshi says. "I just stumbled into it; I just didn't know how to react when I got into this." ...
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A music industry veteran, Shridhar Subramaniam has been with Sony Music India since 1996 when he joined as Marketing Director. Since 2002 he has been the company's managing director and has overseen the company's growth in a continuously churning market. Since 2008, Sony Music India has grown rapidly in a fast growing market and expanded its footprint in India by entering Regional language music and also moved up the entertainment value chain by producing Bollywood movies. In a chat with Aparna Joshi, Subramaniam talks about the company's vision and outline...
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Big FM has been creating a lot of buzz in the FM space by roping in Sonu Niigaam as brand ambassador and changing its music positioning to ‘Chillax hits’. The 45 network station network consolidated its network and despite the slowdown succeeded in snapping up local advertising. Being one of the patrons of listenership measuring system RAM since its inception in late 2007, the radio station along with the Association of Radio Operators of India (AROI) is beginning to get vocal about the variance in listenership measurement data....
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Radio Dhoom completed one year of its inception in August 09. Operating in Jharkhand, the station has made a mark for itself for its localized content.
Radio Dhoom CEO Sanjeev Singh in conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Harpreet Khokhar, talks about the need for local flavour in the station and the significance of localisation of content.
Excerpts-
How has the journey been so far? ...
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The radio industry had criticized the HRD ministry's recent proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. The industry believes it will skew the field against them and benefit the monopolistic music companies and copyright societies.
Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Panday discusses the ramifications of the amendment, the recent meeting with the HRD Ministry and radio industry stepping into music production in a conversation with Radioandmusic.com’s Anita Iyer....
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Almost a week before Resul Pookutty was honoured with a Padma Shri on India's 60th Republic Day, Radioandmusic.com's Chirag Sutar dropped into Resul Pookutty's suburban Mumbai studio - uninvited- for an interview. To Chirag's pleasant surprise, within five minutes a casually dressed bearded man walked in and introduced himself as 'Resul' - no airs- while he chattered away in Malayalam with his staff. ...
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The 35 year old Amit Mathew loves to maintain a low profile. Even as he has spent the last few years bringing up Radio Mango from scratch (Amit hails from the family that runs the Malayala Manorama group of publications which floated Mango), he prefers to let the station do the talk for him. Kochi, Trichur, Calicut and Kannur have had a taste of Mango - the station was the first of the private players to hit the airwaves in Kerala) - and phase III beckons. But Mathew, general manager of the network, would rather let time have its way. In a short interview, he lets R...
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