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...
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
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
20-TEN Year-ender: Prashant Panday, ED & CEO - ENIL
* 2010: The year of waiting. 2011: A year to grow! Everyone in the radio industry kept waiting for things to happen in 2010! We kept waiting for Phase III to be announced. We waited for the economic down-turn to end. And we waited for the new music royalty rates to be issued. Some things happened....
