NEW DELHI: With the grant of permission to the National Institute for Visually Handicapped in Dehradun to start its own radio station, the number of Community Radio Stations has gone up to 66 in the country.
The first CRS being set up specifically for the visually handicapped, the station is expected to be operational within three months. The Letter of Intent by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries....
MUMBAI: The bond between T-Series and Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision has just got stronger with the label acquiring music rights to five of the production company's films.
Shree Ashtavinayak’s Khatta Meetha directed by Priyadarshan starring Akshay Kumar and Trisha Krishnan, Golmaal 3 being directed by Rohit Shetty starring Ajay Devgan, Kunal Khemu, Shreyas Talpade and Kareena Kapoor, Tees Maar Khan starring Akshay Kumar, Akshye Khanna, Katrina Kaif directed by Farah Khan are among those that T-Series has snapped up....
MUMBAI: For their ‘Use Mobile, Save Paper’ campaign, Idea Cellular has utilized radio inventory innovatively for its campaign spread across 45 cities in 18 states.
Idea has invested in frequencies of Radio Mirchi, Radio City, Red FM, Big FM, Fever FM, Friends FM, Club FM, Mango FM, My FM, Radio One, Radio Mantra and Best FM to spread awareness about its ‘Use Mobile, Save Paper’ campaign. ...
MUMBAI: Artistaloud.com a portal for independent artiste to showcase their work has signed 13 new artistes on board.
The portal an initiative by Hungama.com will give way to not only to the established artistes but also the emerging ones who due to the current market scenario are unable to launch their independent work or albums. ...
MUMBAI: The winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Song went to Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for 'The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)' at the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night. It was the first Oscar win for both musicians.en one day he meets Jean Craddock (Gyllenhall), a journalist, who discovers the re...
MUMBAI: Music label T-Series has announced an impressive line-up of six films for the month. The music giant will release the audio of some small budget films as well as some biggies in March.
It has acquired the audio rights of Shaapit, Hum Tum Aur Ghost and Na Ghar Ka Na Ghaat Ka, the audio of which has already released this month. It has also pocketed the rights of Sajid Khan's Akshay Kumar starrer Housefull. ...
MUMBAI: Sun TV Network has announced the launch of its FM radio station in Gangtok (Sikkim) under the Red FM brand through its subsidiary, South Asia FM.
Launched on 6 March, the FM station can be tuned at 93.5 MHz frequency in Gangtok. The programmes will cater to audiences of all age groups....
MUMBAI: Himesh Reshammiya’s team was fully geared for this match considering it was the decider of his fate in Music Ka Maha Muqquabla but once again destiny favoured him as he beat his tough competitor Shankar Mahadevan.tches against other captains. But Himesh’s Warriors were in full swing this time and they gave some good performances.” ...
MUMBAI: After the much hyped spat between singer Sonu Niigaam and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra over royalty share for singers at the last Copyright panel committee meeting early this week, the singer bared his heart on a social networking site. Niigaam posted a note this morning talking about the copyright issue and suppressed state of creative artistes in the country. Read on-
MUMBAI: Amid the copyright furore between the film producers and music directors over the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, music composer Pritam is entering into a co-ownership deal for his music compositions in 2010.
Pritam confirms, “I am composing for Yashraj Films' Badmash Company, Vipul Shah’s Action Replay, Rohan Sippy’s Dam Maro Dam, Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal 3, Thank You and a few more. I would be signing deals to co-own my compositions with producers for some of the movies. I cannot mention the names at the moment as the deal is still in process.” ...
Mumbai, November 7, 2006: Landmark, India`s leading music retail store launched the music album Kama Sutra Moods of Love with the director/ producer Mahesh Bhatt and a Live performance by Abhishek Ray.
Eloquently capturing the Myriad Moods of Love on the Mystical Canvas of Music, This album is crafted to take the listener on a magical journey. The listener travels through the different phases of love and experiences emotions embedded in each Track starting from furtive glances, romantic swells, torrid passion to the pathway to Nirvana. According to an offcial release.
PUNE: At the seminar on intellectual property rights at music expo Baajaa Gaajaa in Pune over the weekend, classical vocalist Shubha Mudgal suggested a separate regulatory body for independent artistes,"Why can't we have an independent body like the PPL and IPRS only meant for independent artistes?" Mudgal questioned.
With respect to the present law, Professor TN Daruwala answered, "You can't have a collective society - IPRS is that soceity." ...
Mumbai: Swapnil Bandodkar of 'Radha hi Bavri' fame launched his new album Tichya Dolyatla Gaav under the Sagarika music label. Renowned singer and Bandodkar's Guru Suresh Wadkar was also present at the launch.
The album Tichya Dolyatla Gaav is composed by seven different composers which also includes Ashok Patki, one of the most renowned composers of the marathi music. Speaking on this occasion, Sagarika Bam, the founder of Sagarika music said "With this album launch, Sagarika Music Label has completed 10 years in the music industry". ...
MUMBAI: Tamil Nadu based Hello FM 106.4 FM has appointed Balasubramaniam as Assistant VP and head, weekend programming and brand integration across all networks.V Balaji has been named cluster head for RoT (Rest of Tamil Nadu). The two executives have already taken up their assignments at Hello FM from 10 November....
MUMBAI: HT Media, which runs FM station Fever 104, has approved a proposal for the demerger of its radio business from its subsidiary HT Music and Entertainment Company Ltd (HTME).
In a notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company on Friday said that the Board of Directors of the company has approved the demerger of radio business of HT Music and Entertainment Company (HTME), a subsidiary company and vesting thereof into HTML....
MUMBAI: In a shocking incident, Bangalore based Opus bar and restaurant owner Gina Braganza died in the wee hours of Saturday after an accidental fall from her fourth floor apartment terrace.ed it as Opus in the Creek; she also acquired Soul in Pune and named it Opus Pune. She had dreamt of starting 100 branches of Opus in the country, in the next one year. Recently, she had organised ‘Opus Osho’...
MUMBAI: There would hardly be an Indian who has not resonated with India's unofficial anthem 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' that was first promoted on Doordarshan in 1988. version of Mile Sur Mera Tumhara was created by the Lok Seva Sanchar Parishad, the new revived song has been produced by television channel Zoom from the Bennett, Coleman stable. Information and Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni will be unveiling the song on Mond...
MUMBAI: T-Series Public Performance License (TPPL) president M M Satish has put in his papers at music company T-Series, with which he was associated for over last five years.
The anti-piracy crusader, who made headlines with his anti piracy measures as head of the PPL at the Indian Music Industry, and then as head of TPPL, is turning scriptwriter and producer for Hindi films. Satish will be taking up the position of CEO of a reputed entertainment company within a month....
MUMBAI: Urmila Dhangar, the singer from Badlapur who impressed judges and audiences alike with her voice, walked away with top honours at Zee Marathi's
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season seven that culminated in Mumbai on Sunday evening. Dhangar whose husky voice and rendition of lavanis and other folk songs made her extremely popular among the contestants during the current season, was crowned the winner after an exhaustive finale, by renowned veteran folk singer Vitthal Umap. The other two finalists - Abhilasha Chellam and Rahul Saxena - were adjudged runners up....
Iron Maiden will perform in Bangalore in February 2009 during the fourth and final leg of its 'Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08'.
Iron Maiden, that began the tour in India with a performance in Mumbai on 1 February 2008, will be taking to the skies once again in 2009 for the final leg of the tour, starting in Dubai on 13 February 2009....
MUMBAI: On December 31, 2009, the WorldSpace satellite radio broadcast service will be terminated for all customers serviced from India, according to an announcement posted on the company website.
This action is an outgrowth of the financial difficulties facing WorldSpace India’s parent company, WorldSpace, Inc., which has been under bankruptcy protection since October 2008, the announcement says.
WorldSpace is present in over 130 countries globally, and has already been in the process of closing down its operations in most other countries....
MUMBAI: Anuj Sharma, the forgotten third finalist of Indian Idol's second season is ready to cut his debut solo Hindi album.
Says the singer, “Universal Music is launching my solo Hindi debut album, ‘Khwaab’ in December and I would be making my comeback in the Hindi music scene.”
The music for ‘Khwaab’ has been composed on an assortment basis by Gaurav Dayal of (Dil le gayi kudi Gujarat ki fame) and Saibal Basu, who had earlier composed for the 2003 film Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II....
MUMBAI: After years of churning out popular VJs on television, MTV is back with its VJ hunt contest.
Calling everyone who is above 18 years of age, Idea MTV VJ Hunt is set to kickstart in Mumbai from 5 December and will round up the contenders from Chandigarh, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata and Bangalore on 8, 11, 14, 18, and 21 December respectively.
Started in 1999, the contest is back on air after seven years. MTV VJ Hunt has discovered talents including Nikhil Chinappa, Malaika Arora, Cyrus Sahukar, Sophie Chaudhary, Shenaz Treasurewala, Rannvijay apart from host of others....
MUMBAI: Music major T-Series has entered into a strategic alliance with Reliance Entertainment’s Big Music to handle distribution for the latter's catalogue.
Industry sources mention that the labels have entered into a minimum guarantee agreement, with T-Series acquiring the content and exploiting it till recovery and later the labels would share profits....
MUMBAI: Star Plus has renewed its vows with Gajjendra Singh, with a new music 'reality show' that brings musicians Himesh Reshammiya, Mika Singh, Mohit Chauhan, Shaan and Shankar Mahadevan on one platform.ons from among the country's multitudes. Christened Music Ka Maha Muqabla, the show takes the place of Star Plus' Voice of India, which ran for two seasons on the channel till last yea...
MUMBAI: Radio City's mystery RJ Love Guru will make his Bollywood debut with a tailor made role in Studio 18's Dil Kabaddi that releases on Friday.hul Bose, Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen, Soha Ali Khan and Rahul Khanna, in the film. He helps the two modern day urban couples - Samit (Irfan) and Mita (Soha), Rishi (Rahul Bose) and Simi (Konkona) handle complex, sensitive matters of the heart to solve the never ending quests which their hearts put them...
MUMBAI: Urmila Dhangar, the singer from Badlapur who impressed judges and audiences alike with her voice, walked away with top honours at Zee Marathi's
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season seven that culminated in Mumbai on Sunday evening. Dhangar whose husky voice and rendition of lavanis and other folk songs made her extremely popular among the contestants during the current season, was crowned the winner after an exhaustive finale, by renowned veteran folk singer Vitthal Umap. The other two finalists - Abhilasha Chellam and Rahul Saxena - were adjudged runners up....
MUMBAI: Radio Indigo national sales director Nabhojit Kuila has resigned and would be quitting the organisation by the end of October.
The FM station, a venture of Jupiter Media, has been without an operations head since Jayyant Bokhare resigned in March this year. dio Indigo and would be filling the post in by...
MUMBAI: When it comes to music, 2010 has started on a good note for sure.
A R Rahman's track from Couples' Retreat 'Na Na..' has already been nominated for this year's Academy Awards. For those who may have forgotten, Slumdog Millionaire's now famous track 'Jai Ho' is also nominated at this year's Grammy Awards.
Rahman's friend and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is escatic about Rahman's nominations, but more than anything else, the Kerala born sound techinician is confident that this year too, Rahman will reign. ...
MUMBAI: The Haflong station of All India Radio took a major leap on 1 February 2010 with its first ever live outdoor broadcast - a running commentary of the Busu Dima fest, the biggest local festival of the region.
The ground event is being celebrated in the main public field at Haflong, known as Lal Field. Haflong, which literally means the 'White Ants Hillock', is the headquarters of the North Cachar Hills district in Assam. It also serves as a hill resort to many tourists....
Gadda da Vida is the lounge bar at the recently opened Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach. Designed to carry a feel of the psychedelia of the 1960’s, Gadda da Vida takes its name from Details...
Gadda da Vida is the lounge bar at the recently opened Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach. Designed to carry a feel of the psychedelia of the 1960’s, Gadda da Vida takes its name from Details...
MUMBAI: On December 31, 2009, the WorldSpace satellite radio broadcast service will be terminated for all customers serviced from India, according to an announcement posted on the company website.
This action is an outgrowth of the financial difficulties facing WorldSpace India’s parent company, WorldSpace, Inc., which has been under bankruptcy protection since October 2008, the announcement says.
WorldSpace is present in over 130 countries globally, and has already been in the process of closing down its operations in most other countries....
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MUMBAI: Anuj Sharma, the forgotten third finalist of Indian Idol's second season is ready to cut his debut solo Hindi album.
Says the singer, “Universal Music is launching my solo Hindi debut album, ‘Khwaab’ in December and I would be making my comeback in the Hindi music scene.”
The music for ‘Khwaab’ has been composed on an assortment basis by Gaurav Dayal of (Dil le gayi kudi Gujarat ki fame) and Saibal Basu, who had earlier composed for the 2003 film Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II....
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MUMBAI: After years of churning out popular VJs on television, MTV is back with its VJ hunt contest.
Calling everyone who is above 18 years of age, Idea MTV VJ Hunt is set to kickstart in Mumbai from 5 December and will round up the contenders from Chandigarh, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata and Bangalore on 8, 11, 14, 18, and 21 December respectively.
Started in 1999, the contest is back on air after seven years. MTV VJ Hunt has discovered talents including Nikhil Chinappa, Malaika Arora, Cyrus Sahukar, Sophie Chaudhary, Shenaz Treasurewala, Rannvijay apart from host of others....
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MUMBAI: Music major T-Series has entered into a strategic alliance with Reliance Entertainment’s Big Music to handle distribution for the latter's catalogue.
Industry sources mention that the labels have entered into a minimum guarantee agreement, with T-Series acquiring the content and exploiting it till recovery and later the labels would share profits....
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MUMBAI: Star Plus has renewed its vows with Gajjendra Singh, with a new music 'reality show' that brings musicians Himesh Reshammiya, Mika Singh, Mohit Chauhan, Shaan and Shankar Mahadevan on one platform.ons from among the country's multitudes. Christened Music Ka Maha Muqabla, the show takes the place of Star Plus' Voice of India, which ran for two seasons on the channel till last yea...
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MUMBAI: Radio City's mystery RJ Love Guru will make his Bollywood debut with a tailor made role in Studio 18's Dil Kabaddi that releases on Friday.hul Bose, Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen, Soha Ali Khan and Rahul Khanna, in the film. He helps the two modern day urban couples - Samit (Irfan) and Mita (Soha), Rishi (Rahul Bose) and Simi (Konkona) handle complex, sensitive matters of the heart to solve the never ending quests which their hearts put them...
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MUMBAI: Urmila Dhangar, the singer from Badlapur who impressed judges and audiences alike with her voice, walked away with top honours at Zee Marathi's
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season seven that culminated in Mumbai on Sunday evening. Dhangar whose husky voice and rendition of lavanis and other folk songs made her extremely popular among the contestants during the current season, was crowned the winner after an exhaustive finale, by renowned veteran folk singer Vitthal Umap. The other two finalists - Abhilasha Chellam and Rahul Saxena - were adjudged runners up....
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MUMBAI: Radio Indigo national sales director Nabhojit Kuila has resigned and would be quitting the organisation by the end of October.
The FM station, a venture of Jupiter Media, has been without an operations head since Jayyant Bokhare resigned in March this year. dio Indigo and would be filling the post in by...
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MUMBAI: When it comes to music, 2010 has started on a good note for sure.
A R Rahman's track from Couples' Retreat 'Na Na..' has already been nominated for this year's Academy Awards. For those who may have forgotten, Slumdog Millionaire's now famous track 'Jai Ho' is also nominated at this year's Grammy Awards.
Rahman's friend and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is escatic about Rahman's nominations, but more than anything else, the Kerala born sound techinician is confident that this year too, Rahman will reign. ...
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MUMBAI: The Haflong station of All India Radio took a major leap on 1 February 2010 with its first ever live outdoor broadcast - a running commentary of the Busu Dima fest, the biggest local festival of the region.
The ground event is being celebrated in the main public field at Haflong, known as Lal Field. Haflong, which literally means the 'White Ants Hillock', is the headquarters of the North Cachar Hills district in Assam. It also serves as a hill resort to many tourists....
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