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. Some didn't!

RAM: WK 52/10: Yet another week of negligible share-shifts

MUMBAI: Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 52 (19-25 Dec /10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening reveals that it was yet another week of negligible shifts in market shares.

Gains and losses in the 4 metros (at =/> 0.2% of own share) were:

Gains (%):

(1)   Mumbai: BIG FM - 0.4; Red FM - 0.3; AIR FM 1 Rainbow – 0.3; Radio One - 0.2; Oye! – 0.2

2)   Delhi: AIR FM Vividh Bharati – 0.5; Hit FM – 0.4; Fever FM – 0.2

RAM WK 51/10: Red FM, BIG FM grow most in week of small shifts

* Red FM grew in all 4 metros, BIG FM in 3

RAM WK 50/10: AIR stations lose most in week of smaller shifts

MUMBAI: There was not much change in the market shares per Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 50 (5-11 Dec /10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening. In the relatively smaller shifts of shares, AIR stations gained and lost the most. Amongst the gains -- Akashvani in Mumbai (1.4%), Vividh Bharti in Delhi (1.3%), AIR FM Rainbow in Kolkata and AIR Vividh Bharti in Bangalore gained 0.7% each.

Key gains and losses in the 4 metros were:

Gains (%):

RAM Wk 49/10: AIR stations rally in Mumbai, Bangalore

MUMBAI: AIR stations, which had lost maximum share combined across Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata in the previous week, have bounced back in Mumbai and Bangalore per Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 49 (28 Nov-4 Dec /10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening. In Mumbai, AIR FM Gold and FM1 Rainbow gained 2.4% and 1.3% share respectively, while in Bangalore, AIR FM Rainbow and Vividh Bharti gained 1.8% and 1.5% share respectively.

Key gains and losses in the 4 metros were:

RAM Wk 48/10: AIR suffers in 3 metros; Mirchi, Radio One gain most overall

MUMBAI: Per Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 48 (20-27 Nov/10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening, AIR stations have lost the maximum share combined across Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata. Radio Mirchi and Radio One were the main gainers in that order. In Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi, Radio Mirchi retained its stranglehold on the Number One Position, while Big FM continued on top in Bangalore.

Key gains and losses in the 4 metros were:
 

Gains:

I&B Secy hopes community radios will begin sharing software

NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Raghu Menon today said community radio has to be a two-way medium so that people could make better use of the information being imparted.

I&B Secy opens 3-day Community Radio consultation

* National level consultation being attended by UK, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, among others

* Jointly organized by I&B Ministry, UNESCO;  partnered by Community Radio Forum India, Ford Foundation 

RAM Week 46: Huge recovery for Radio City in Mumbai; Mirchi loses 1.2% in Kolkata, remains No.1 there

*City adds 2.3% share in Mumbai

*AIR stations drop shares in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai