20-TEN Year-ender: Apurva Purohit, CEO - Radio City 91.1 FM
*The Digital Radio Industry in 2010 Finally after being a gleam in the eyes of intrepid digital pioneers and technology whizz kids for many years, there is a palpable vibration in the media world that digital has finally arrived!
T Suresh: 'You must control your content'
T Suresh is a young veteran in the Music business with 20 years of multi-faceted experience across consumer goods and entertainment. He is a sales and marketing professional whose passion for entertainment products took him to the music industry way back in 1996 when he found an opportunity to head...
20-TEN Year-ender: Pancham Endlaw, Country Manager - TZ Mobile
* 2010 – A renaissance year for VAS
20-TEN Year-ender: Jai Rajagopal, COO - Mediaplus Technologies Pvt Ltd (www.myband.co.in)
*A good year for independent artists in India, but can you name 10 such bands? The year gone by was a good one for the independent artists in India. This was factored by the phenomenal commercial as well as critical success of Rock On – the radical Bolly flick which changed perceptions about the...
20-TEN Year-ender: Sanjay Hemady, COO - HIT 95 FM
* Radio has delivered, and so well! I don't want to do the usual. Talk about problems and figures and issues and solutions, questioning numbers, measurements, listing out the problems and what-have-you. These things are part and parcel of our world, the struggle, the sweat, the efforts and the...
RAM WK 1/11: Mirchi leads in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata; BIG FM in Bangalore
MUMBAI: The RAM ratings of the first week of 2011 are in, and this time round too, Radio Mirchi has opened the account with its customary first position in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, with BIG FM at the Number 1 spot in Bangalore. However, in Mumbai, Radio City and Red FM are inching closer to...
20-TEN Year-ender: K Sanjay Prabhu, MD - Radio Indigo
* 2010: The hope of sweet optimism for Radio Radio today is considered a mass medium, especially when you consider the age group that it primarily caters to in India. More than 41% of the FM listenership in India is in the age category of 15-29 and generates revenue of US$ 200 million-plus and is...
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...
Shridhar Subramaniam: 'Focus on your core'
Shridhar Subramaniam joined Sony Music India at its founding way back in 1996, and became MD in 2002. He has a deep understanding of the Asian region, having previously overseen Sony Music's operations in Thailand in 2006 and 2007, and in end-2010, was named President, India and the Middle East for...
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...
