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MUMBAI: For the third year on the trot, Hello FM has bagged an exclusive radio partnership with Chennai Super Kings for the forthcoming IPL season. All the seven stations of Hello FM 106.4 will air soundbytes from Chennai Super Kings players, and will cheer for Chennai Super Kings, who won the championship in the third edition of IPL. Rajeev Nambair, CEO & President, Hello FM, said, Hello FM is proud to be the Champion's Choice, and with this official tie-up, we at Hello FM are all set to give our advertisers and listeners a value-based association....
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*Andhra Pradesh's first-ever people's choice movie awards MUMBAI: After organizing BIG Ugadi Music Awards and BIG Telugu Television Awards last year, 92.7 BIG FM, in association withRaj Oil Mills, announced the BIG Telugu Movie Awards on Tuesday, 15th March 2011, at BIG Cinemas, Hyderabad. The award function to be held at Shilpkala Vedika on Friday, 25 March, will see the bigwigs of the Telugu film Industry in attendance, with performances and acts by various artists.
read moreMUMBAI: Global player in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, IODA has launched IODA Open API, the industry's first authoritative metadata and content API. Designed to increase exposure and revenue opportunities for content owners while enabling partners to monetize artist content more effectively, IODA Open API makes authoritative metadata, buy links and media assets available to partners and third party developers. The announcement was made on Tuesday, 15th March, 2011, at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
read moreNEW DELHI: Even as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry today denied that internal professions are denied regular appointment to the post of Director-General in Doordarshan and All India Radio, a look at the past twenty years or so shows that almost all the heads of DD or AIR were people who belonged either to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Information Service.
read moreMUMBAI: BlinkerActive, IRIS's branded entertainment and music marketing agency, announced the launch of two new music licensing services: The first, NoiseClerk, is an online platform powered by SyncTank, specifically developed for mobile and web application developers, offering them advanced search functionality and immediate licenses for 10,000+ pre-cleared tracks. The second is the new BlinkerActive Music Synchronization services division, offering more traditional negotiated synch placements in film, TV, theatrical trailers, video games, and advertisements.
read moreMUMBAI: Great news for Canadians who "Just Can't Get Enough" of The Black Eyed Peas -- today the global superstars are launching challenges on SCVNGR -- the location-based game all about going places, doing challenges and earning rewards -- to engage and reward fans through gameplay at The Black Eyed Peas partner locations in Canada.
read moreMUMBAI: Fox History and Entertainment has announced the return of History Rocks with its fifth season, which is dedicated to the Woodstock Generation to music and peace. Premiering on the channel on 2 April, this 12-part series allows music lovers a peek into the lives of rock legends of this generation and their biggest concerts. This time the series offers the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
read moreMUMBAI: Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services and a wholly owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEAP), today announced it will showcase Muve Music on the Samsung Suede throughout SXSW. Muve Music is the first wireless rate plan that includes unlimited music downloads, ringtones and ringback tones along with unlimited talk, text, Web, video and more.
read moreMUMBAI: Grammy award-winning rock icons Duran Duran will kick-off the second year of "Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express" on March 23rd at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif. The event (featuring all four original members: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor) comes one day after their critically acclaimed 13th studio album, entitled ALL YOU NEED IS NOW (S-Curve Records), hits stores.
read moreMUMBAI: In what is proclaimed as the company's biggest expansion in its V.DO series, Intex has launched five phones with cutting edge technology, high customer safety, bohemian combinations of utility & entertainment features and priced between INR 1490/- to 2640/-
read moreMUMBAI: MY FM recently organised a cricket match for over a thousand inmates of Raipur Central Jail. 1,027 prisoners participated in a cricket match against the MY FM team captained by Rajesh Chauhan, an international sports star from Raipur. Around 800 spectators came forward to cheer their favorite team. The enthusiastic prisoners won the match, and as a reward, the Jail Superintendant and DG of Raipur jail granted pardon of imprisonment of seven days to all 1,027 prisoners.
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MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) delivered impressive first-quarter earnings that surpassed exread more
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