RAM Wk 30-33: Radio City leads in Mumbai and Bangalore
MUMBAI: The Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) has released the data for the Week 30 to 33 (24-07-2011 to 20-08-2011). Radio City is leading in Mumbai and Bangalore, while Fever tops Delhi and Radio Mirchi continues to be the all time market leader in Kolkata. Red FM has gained across metros, while...
Music channels: A return to basics
MUMBAI: If 2010 was the year of uncertainty for the music channels, 2011 definitely is a return to basics. The music and youth TV channel genre, which saw major changes last year, now seems to be settling down a bit. While many new players have come in, most of them have upped their music quotient...
Prashant Panday: 'Radio will see its best in the next five to ten years'
*Radioandmusic.com features and salutes glorious years of Private FM Radio
Adarsh Gupta: 'We want Saregama to be the Future of Music'
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...
G Krishnan: 'Radio is the most innovative of all mediums'
TV Today Network (Oye! FM) executive director & CEO G Krishnan, GK as he is fondly known, is an exceedingly well read Indian media professional with a rich experience of more than two decades in the print, radio and television industry. Radio Today Broadcasting Ltd, the radio division of India...
Apurva Purohit: 'Radio has seen robust growth as a medium for marketing and advertising industry'
* Radioandmusic.com features and salutes glorious years of Private FM Radio Radio City 91.1 FM CEO Apurva Purohit is in high spirits as the station has completed 10 years in the radio business. This apart, Radio City has just won out against The IPRS in a royalty case. Promoted by Music Broadcast...
CISAC Robin Gibb: 'Court decisions in Mumbai and Delhi represents serious breach of Indian obligations under the Berne Convention'
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) president and singer-songwriter Robin Gibb expressed his disappointment on Bombay High Courts ruling which are incompatible with international laws and treaties on Intellectual Property and artistic works.
Harrish M Bhatia: 'Absence of radio measurement tool is a huge roadblock for non-metro stations'
* Radioandmusic.com features and salutes glorious years of Private FM Radio 94.3 My FM CEO Harrish M Bhatia in �Glorious years of Private FM Radio' opens up on the vexatious royalty issue, stumbling blocks and challenges faced by the nascent medium in the last decade, and its potential growth...
Rana Barua: 'Radio remains highly regulated media industry in the country'
Radioandmusic.com in its �Glorious years of Private FM Radio' series features Red FM 93.5 Network chief operating officer Rana Barua, the man who runs India's most awarded radio network with exceptionally successful programming and creative campaigns. Barua, shouldering hefty responsibility...
Javed Akhtar: 'The Bombay HC judgment is totally incompatible with International law'
Acclaimed lyricist, poet, writer and member of parliament Javed Akhtar give his views on the Bombay High Court IPRS royalty ruling in favour of Radio City in a conversation with Poonam Ahuja.