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MUMBAI: My FM national programming head Viplove Gupte has moved on from Synergy Media, to join ADAG's Big FM as the National Programming Director.

Prior to My FM, which he joined in September 2006, Gupte was the Group Head - Creative of Mirchi Movies, the Times Group subsidiary for film production.

Says Gupte, "I was in Delhi for quite some time and wanted to move back to Mumbai. I am pretty excited about my new job and really looking forward to it."

He has already joined Big FM and is busy with meetings. Gupte will be reporting to Big FM national programming head Manav Dhanda.

Gupte, who began his career at Swift Advertising, moved to Brainwave Visualisers and then on to Radio Mirchi as the first programming head of Mirchi's first ever radio station in Indore. At Synergy, Gupte was part of the core team that launched 16 stations of My FM in 18 months.