Ashish Patil - Music television is dead. Long live music television!
If there was ever a time to be in the music business, it's now!
A time to wake up
The third phase of financial bidding for FM stations is around the corner and the players are all geared to bag the few metro stations and a clutch of virgin markets whose frequencies will be thrown open.
There is one big question which is preying on my mind, however. Where are the listeners? The advertising pie is shrinking between the players and listeners too. If you have noticed recently, many players have shifted their TG focus...earlier, most stations were capturing a young TG between 15-25, now it has been changed to 25-35 + above, for a simple reason.
The AROI budget wishlist
The fledgling and nascent private FM radio industry owes its existence to the initiative of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to create a unique example of encouraging private enterprise to build an industry which internationally has proven to be a major source of news and entertainment to the masses, besides providing tremendous opportunities for employment generation.
Life as a 'love show' host - Lokesh Gulyani
RJing is something that happens in one's life and leaves memories for a lifetime.
Forum or Ho-hum - Vineet Singh Hukmani
We attend forum after forum and at the end of it realize that most of them were �ho- hums' not forums. This is a checklist to classify the same before you attend one and then spare yourself the agony of another HO-HUM. Would request all organizers of these forums to take this in humorous spirit … after all you could use this as a checklist to ensure which side of the fence you are on …
1. If you are going to meet the same people the year before and it's likely that they will be wearing the same clothes then it's a ho-hum not a forum.
Radio City Love Guru - Keep the flame burning, come what may!
Yeh ishq nahi aasaan bas itna hi samajh leeje, Ek aag ka darya hai aur doob ke jaana hai
This wellknown couplet somehow sums up the need for love in one's life. Companionship has been the perennial desire for man. But one needs to welcome joys and sorrows alike, which come as a package deal. Defining love is a task which perhaps no one has been able to accomplish since time immemorial. But yes, the feeling is sublime and like they say - you need to be in it - to feel it.
Remembering Sridhar
Sridhar Hariharan Padmanabh or more popularly, H.Sridhar, to the people who would look for his credit either on a CD cover or in the credits of an Indian feature film, was a mathematics graduate whose love for music finally drove him into an area, where he will be remembered as a pioneer of sorts. Like Mangesh Desai and Daman Sood. My association with him was also through the credits as well, especially of albums by the talented AR Rahman. Not only the music but also the sound of Roja had made everyone sit up and take notice.
Dilip Dugar: Wishlist for 2009 - Let's work together
Chodo kal ki baatien kal ki baat purani, aayo hum sab mil ke likhe ek nayi kahani (let's forget the past, as it's old now, let's come forward unitedly and write a new script)
It's 2009 now. Let's come forward to fulfil the wish list of the FM radio industry. This wish list can just be achieved when we all work together unitedly. FM radio in India is now growing and with agenda 2009, we can bring a new boom to this industry.
Nisha Narayanan - Leaping over hurdles
A brief note appeared on the website of Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry recently on the status of the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC). It said that Rs.19.65 crore was approved for the EMMC -- well equipped with state-of-the-art facilities -- to check the violations of the program and advertising code and license conditions for private FM.
As always, the government's passion to monitor and control, on which they spend huge amounts of money, outweighs any impulse to promote this nascent industry.
Sudhanshu Sarronwala- "It's mobile, expressive and has a long tail...."
One can perhaps argue successfully that communications, photography and music are the most digitized industries in the world. Just think of email, digital cameras and camera-phones and MP3'.
Further, in terms of format change, digital music is quite simply the pioneer in terms of a changed format settling into a commercialized industry (not without its own legacy issues with respect to piracy).
