FM round up west - Steady growth
After featuring the south, north and east FM scenario in 2008, radioandmusic.com completes the FM roundup with the west scene. 2008 was a tough year in general for media in India, but radio managed reasonably well during the year. Believes Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Panday, Fuelled by growth in...
Mhaswad CR station commences transmission
NEW DELHI: The ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced that the Community Radio station at Mhaswad, Satara district in Maharashtra has commenced operations officially. Regular transmission from the Mannvikas Samajik Sanstha Community Radio station has begun from 26 January 2009.
Radio MUST head Pankaj Athavale - For us, the most important thing is to sound interesting and intelligent
Mumbai University initiated its community radio station – Radio MUST 107.8 FM in February 2008. The unique initiative completes one year next month. Airing content initially for four hours, the CR now broadcasts 13 hours of programming In a conversation with Radioandmusic's Anita Iyer, Radio...
FM roundup - east & north east - Riding High
Looking back, 2008 was the year of commencing operations for many commercial FM stations in eastern India. To make their presence felt, these stations carried out a lot of marketing initiatives. Many of these stations, located in small towns and marked by hefty retail advertising, have managed to...
The toppers of the Bollywood music biz in 2008
From an astounding 75 'A' grader bollywood releases in 2008, barely a clutchful made the mark, music wise. Not surprisingly, films composed by Rahman, SEL and Pritam - those with catchy tunes made brisk business. The messiah of the masses, Himesh Reshammiya, hit a chord with Karzzz too, relying...
Can the singer- actor survive in Bollywood?
Bollywood movies are incomplete without song and dance routines. The world might mock our crazy costumes, unrelated song sequences and location changes and wonder why almost all our movies look like musicals but our show has happily gone on.
Radio Indigo COO Jayyant Bhokare - I hope to see retail advertising growing faster because it benefits more
In a market that preferred to turn Kannada en masse early in 2008, Radio Indigo stands out as a player that preferred to play the game by its own rules. Jayyant Bhokare, who took over as the Chief Operating Officer of Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, a Jupiter Capital Venture in mid 2008, brought in over 14...
Noel Keymer's favourite jocks
RJ turned voice trainer and author Noel Keymer picks three of his favourite radio jockeys from the year gone by. Jeeturaaj: Radio Mirchi If there's one reason that listeners tune into Radio Mirchi every morning at 7 am to 11 am, it's definitely because of Jeeturaaj.
FM Round Up: North - The race to stand out among clutter
North India witnessed a spurt in radio stations in 2008 - not only in the NCR, but throughout the northern states. The radio market showed signs of maturity with many advertisers willing to pump in their money in radio as a medium. Says Radio Chaska (Gwalior) executive director Tarun Goyal, The...
2008: The Year of the Radio Buyer - Sunil Kumar
For the radio industry in India, if the year 2008 belonged to anyone, it was to the buyer (of radio). Having got a considerable size of audience, the radio groups and individual stations did everything possible to persuade the buyer to buy airtime and other activities on their respective stations....
