Blue Frog Records'founders Ashutosh Phatak & Dhruv Ghanekar - We want to give non mainstream music a platform because it deserves a wider audience
Blue Frog started life as a revolutionary Mumbai night club in December 2007. May 2008 saw the launch of three new music businesses from the founders - Blue Frog Production, Blue Frog Soundlabs and Blue Frog Records.
At a time when CD sales are declining and the number of record labels shutting down is on the rise, Blue Frog Records applies a more modern business philosophy in its approach. Ashutosh Phatak and Dhruv Ghanekar, the founding partners of the club share their insight on the new ventures with Radioandmusic.com's Abhimanyu Singh Phalke.
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TAM Media Research vice president Pradeep Hejmadi - 'Kolkata should be on our radar by June'
It's been a hectic six months for TAM Media Research's Radio Audience Measurement wing, which launched in the three metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in November 2007. Launching the service for the first time in the country meant meeting up with media agencies, advertisers, traveling across radio stations, across markets and taking them through the establishment results.
Radio Mango director programmes Ravi Nair - We plan to promote more artistes and bands in the coming year
Having earned the distinction of being Kerala's first private FM station,
Radio Mango, started by Malayala Manorama is focused on capturing the Kochi market. Providing listeners with a local music flavour, Radio Mango has created a niche for itself in Kannur, Kozhikode and Trichur. Radio Mango director programmes Ravi Nair discusses about the station's new initiatives, listenership patterns and expansion plans in Kochi in conversation with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer.
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Radio Misty CEO Nishant Mittal - Big brands are realising that Siliguri is a fast developing market
He's touted to be the youngest CEO of a FM radio station in the country. To add to his challenges, Nishant Mittal heads his organisation in a state that offers four countries as neighbours to India, a diverse cultural panorama that the station needs to continually needs to address. Radio Misty is a part of the PCM Group, one of the largest groups of eastern India, with interests in tea gardens, construction work, ISP and Cable TV.
Fropper.com business head Navin Mittal - Our idea is to bring networking to an online music experience
The online radio space in India has a new entrant. Fropper.com, the social networking site from the People Group has launched a free online radio service with around 15,000 songs available online for starters.
Fropper has set itself the target of expanding its content base to 1,00,00 songs in the next quarter, to meet the needs of its 3.5 million users. The Fropper Music jukebox allows users to rate songs, discover new content, and share music (with other Fropper users).
Radio Today COO Anil Srivatsa - Working women are our highest listeners in the afternoons
Radio Meow has been the pioneer in positioning women as a target for their radio station and has been successful in garnering listeners. Radio Today COO Anil Srivatsa converses with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer about Meow's experiment of venturing into talk format, celeb RJs and what lies ahead for Meow in the coming year.
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How has the idea of focusing on women audiences been so far?
Media Worldwide director Prashant Chothani - 9XM has copied what we did, but they are not experimenting like we do
In a scenario choc a bloc with music channels trying to outdo each other with innovative programming, Music India believes in sticking to the conventional format of no VJs and back to back music. Parent company Media Worldwide's Prashant Chothani shares his views on the contemporary music channels, the distribution issues and the innovations planned for the year ahead in a conversation with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer.
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Big FM Mumbai station head Sudharshan Saha - Local advertising is moving gradually from print to radio
After the encouraging response to its Sing with Sonu initiative, Big FM is venturing into original music to differentiate itself from other radio stations. In a chat with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer, the newly appointed Mumbai station head Sudharshan Saha talks about ad revenue patterns of radio stations, differential content and Big FM Mumbai's short term plans
Red FM COO Abraham Thomas - Radio will soon be six to eight per cent of the advertising pie
It's bustling with the colour �red' and why not! That's the Red FM berth for you. It's been a successful radio brand and confidently says so. Following the tagline – �You can love us, hate us but can't ignore us' every Red strategy is designed with a sniper approach and it's working. Red FM COO Abraham Thomas takes some time off his busy schedule to meet Radioandmusic.com's Riya V Anandwala to talk about Red's image, strategies and attitude!
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PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan - People are using music increasingly but the value is not coming back to the music industry
The spectre of piracy continues to haunt the music industry, draining its revenues and crippling new initiatives. The Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), the licensing arm of the Indian Music Industry, is striving hard to license the use of music in the public arena.
In an interview with Radioandmusic.com's Anita Iyer, PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan outlines PPL's plans for the year ahead.
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How has the spread of digital music impacted the industry?
