* Rahman's first authorized conversational biography written by Nasreen Munni Kabir MUMBAI: Music maestro and two-time Oscar winner AR Rahman launched his biography, AR Rahman: The Spirit of Music, here in the presence of his family and film makers, Mani Ratnam, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Ram Gopal Verma, Subhash Ghai, Imtiaz Ali, Govind Nilhani and from music industry T-Series's Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Udit Narayan, and Sivamani on Wednesday.
read moreMUMBAI: Fever 104 FM was announced the official radio partner for Mumbai Indians in IPL Season 4, on Wednesday. Fever 104 FM has partnerships with three highly coveted teams – Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders. With this relationship, Fever listeners who are also cricket lovers, can look forward to interesting on-air content along with some rewarding on-air activities.
read more* All fields intact; Minimum entries per category up from 24 to 40 MUMBAI: In an effort to continuously evolve its GRAMMY Awards process, The Recording Academy (www.grammy.com) announced yesterday that it has restructured the GRAMMY categories across all genres and Fields, bringing the total number of Categories to be recognized at the 54th GRAMMY Awards in 2012, to 78 (from 109). All fields remain the same.
read moreMUMBAI: imbee, the kids' social network, today announced imbeeRadio, the first just-for-kids on demand unlimited streaming service that offers a personalized and safe listening experience for its users.
read moreMUMBAI: PLAY By AOL Music, a social music app that gives users a fun and easy way to listen, share and discover music, has reached a major milestone just three weeks after its launch at SXSW. PLAY has been downloaded by over a quarter million users making it one of the fastest-growing mobile apps on the market today.
read moreNEW DELHI: Policy changes in the existing Community Radio Guidelines and quality of content being broadcast from the CRS will be taken up during the first National Community Radio Sammelan for operational Community Radio Stations of India, to be inaugurated by Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni here tomorrow.
read more* At AROI's Radio Congress 2011, things took an interesting turn when moderator Raj Nayak -- whom AROI President Anurradha Prasad had described as a maverick in her introduction – asked the congregation that if their voice asking for a level playing field for Radio was not being heard by the powers that be, would all the private FM operators be willing to shut down operations for two or three days as a peaceful protest?
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi in association Vodafone had organized "Ugadi Vantala Pandaga" bringing out the best of traditional cuisines savoured during the festive occasion across the state. Mirchi listeners & Vodafone customers across the cities of Hyderabad, Vizag, Vijaywada Warangal, Kurnool registered for the competiton through an on-air contest on Radio Mirchi and also through on ground activations. The preliminary rounds were held at on 2nd of April followed by the 'Grand Finale' on 3rd April.
read moreMUMBAI: Jampro Antennas, Inc. of Sacramento, California announced here today that it has been awarded a contract to supply All India Radio (AIR) with over one dozen Jampro model RCCC Constant Impedance FM Bandpass Combiners and patching systems The combiners will be installed at radio stations throughout the country.
read moreBANGALORE: Times Music yesterday announced the launch of Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth's album "Carnatic Lounge", a world fusion offering in Bangalore. The Fusion music album was launched by music director V Harikrishna, Karnataka's Inspector General and Director General of Police ST Ramesh presiding over the event.
read more* SC to Madras HC: Dispose appeal against Copyright Board order in 2 months NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Supreme Court's directive today vacating the stay on the order of the Copyright Board fixing a royalty of two per cent to be paid by radio for music broadcast has been welcomed by the Association of Radio Operators for India (AROI).
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