Harrish M Bhatia: You don't READ Radio, you LISTEN to it!
Looking at the Radio industry from a leader's perspective, Harrish M Bhatia, CEO of 94.3 MY FM, speaks of the problems of the industry, offers advice to the AROI, and lashes out at the fact that a Readership survey is gauging a medium that is listened to, and not read And more. In conversation...
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...
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
Apurva Purohit: Radio can do 8%, if Phase-3 happens at all
Apurva Purohit, CEO Radio City 91.1 FM, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla, Director Content Indiantelevision Group and Editor RadioAndMusic.com, about the Radio Industry; her views on IRS and RAM; Radio City's successful internet Radio Station with 14 lakh listeners; content differentiation;...
LV Krishnan: RAM expansion depends on what Industry wants, and what it can afford
L V Krishnan, CEO – TAM Media Research, tells Pavan R Chawla, CSO & Director Content -- Indiantelevision Group, and Editor -- RadioAndMusic.com that his team is looking at Hyderabad and Chennai from the perspective of setting up RAM's approach for tier-two and tier-three cities, and that...
Archana's Diary: Day-II with Sukhi ji
This had to be my most memorable experience of escorting the Musical-e-Azam (MeA) guest at 6:30 in the morning! Sukhwinder Singh is a huge fitness freak! He had once told me that his 6 bedroom apartment in Juhu is a gym and a doghouse, as every room has some gym equipment or the other, and his five...
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
RAM Week 45: Big gains for AIR FM-1 in all 4 metros; Radio City loses 1.3% in Mumbai
MUMBAI: In simple % gain terms, the biggest gainer in Wk 45 per RAM Data All India, 12+ all listening places for the whole week, was Akashvani Mumbai which gained 0.8%, followed closely by AIR FM1-Rainbow which gained 0.7% in Mumbai, 0.6% in Delhi, 0.5% in Bangalore and 0.3% in Kolkata. It has been...
Rajat Kakar: Why should I subsidize the Radio business!
Rajat Kakar, Managing Director - Universal Music Group India, is a passionate, straight-talking leader who has been in the music business for the last 14 years, starting with Sony Music when it began operations in India in 1996. As MD UMG India, Kakar has been transforming UMG from a physical-media...
