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Radio One MD Vineet Singh Hukmani certainly doesn't mince his words and uses a razor-sharp thumbnail to paint a sketch that is as telling as it is brief, of the IRS Q4 findings and includes: how his own network has fared, why the city-based networks are growing stronger than the national brands, why the research agencies need to get their act together or miss the bus, and more. In his own words:
read more* Our last 3 wks' cumes up to 10%: Business Head S Keerthivasan NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM seems to be pulling out all the stops in Kolkata with its promotions of Sourav Ganguly's ICC Cricket World Cup-centred audio blog Ki Bolchchen Dada in the cricket- and Dada-crazy city. (Click here for slide show of outdoor campaign)
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MUMBAI: Indie rock band Pentagram announced it will release its fourth studio album, Bloodywood, with a 5-metro tour across Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. The gigs will be held at Hard Rock Caf?© in each city. Fronted by Vishal Dadlani, this 14-track album is produced by prolific guitarist Randolph Correia and also features long-time drummer Shiraz Bhattacharya along with bassist Papal Mane.
read moreMUMBAI: The PTC Punjabi Music Awards will be held in Jalandhar on the 18th of March To be anchored by Manish Paul, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Upsasana Singh and standup artiste Rajeev Thakur, the awards will see Isha Koppikar, Hard Kaur, Jazzy B, Manmohan Waris, Kamal Heer, Satinder Sartaj and Miss Pooja performing.
read moreMUMBAI: UTV and Airtel will extend the Talk2Me service to regional markets like Kochi and Chandigarh, with Satinder Sartaaj, singer, composer and lyricist from Punjab, and Jagadish Kumar, a Malayalam film star. Talk2Me service is a celebrity chat platform where thousands of fans can get connected with their favorite celebrities and chat with them live on voice chat. These stars will chat on their upcoming ventures, their passion, and their likes and dislikes.
read moreMUMBAI: For the third year on the trot, Hello FM has bagged an exclusive radio partnership with Chennai Super Kings for the forthcoming IPL season. All the seven stations of Hello FM 106.4 will air soundbytes from Chennai Super Kings players, and will cheer for Chennai Super Kings, who won the championship in the third edition of IPL. Rajeev Nambair, CEO & President, Hello FM, said, Hello FM is proud to be the Champion's Choice, and with this official tie-up, we at Hello FM are all set to give our advertisers and listeners a value-based association....
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*Andhra Pradesh's first-ever people's choice movie awards MUMBAI: After organizing BIG Ugadi Music Awards and BIG Telugu Television Awards last year, 92.7 BIG FM, in association withRaj Oil Mills, announced the BIG Telugu Movie Awards on Tuesday, 15th March 2011, at BIG Cinemas, Hyderabad. The award function to be held at Shilpkala Vedika on Friday, 25 March, will see the bigwigs of the Telugu film Industry in attendance, with performances and acts by various artists.
read moreMUMBAI: Global player in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, IODA has launched IODA Open API, the industry's first authoritative metadata and content API. Designed to increase exposure and revenue opportunities for content owners while enabling partners to monetize artist content more effectively, IODA Open API makes authoritative metadata, buy links and media assets available to partners and third party developers. The announcement was made on Tuesday, 15th March, 2011, at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
read moreNEW DELHI: Even as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry today denied that internal professions are denied regular appointment to the post of Director-General in Doordarshan and All India Radio, a look at the past twenty years or so shows that almost all the heads of DD or AIR were people who belonged either to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Information Service.
read moreMUMBAI: BlinkerActive, IRIS's branded entertainment and music marketing agency, announced the launch of two new music licensing services: The first, NoiseClerk, is an online platform powered by SyncTank, specifically developed for mobile and web application developers, offering them advanced search functionality and immediate licenses for 10,000+ pre-cleared tracks. The second is the new BlinkerActive Music Synchronization services division, offering more traditional negotiated synch placements in film, TV, theatrical trailers, video games, and advertisements.
read moreMUMBAI: Great news for Canadians who "Just Can't Get Enough" of The Black Eyed Peas -- today the global superstars are launching challenges on SCVNGR -- the location-based game all about going places, doing challenges and earning rewards -- to engage and reward fans through gameplay at The Black Eyed Peas partner locations in Canada.
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MUMBAI: In today's content-driven world, sound is a surprisingly overlooked yet potent branding read more
MUMBAI: BandLab, the world’s largest social music creation platform, today announced a major expread more
MUMBAI: In a candid conversation with Radioandmusic, Akhila Shankar (Head, TuneCore South Asia) read more
MUMBAI: As Apple Music marks its 10th anniversary since launching on June 30, 2015, the US tech read more
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MUMBAI: Jio Studios and B62 Studios have unveiled the electrifying first glimpse of Dhurandhar, directed by Aditya Dhar (Uri: The Surgical Strike)...read more
MUMBAI: Popular Radio Jockey Devangana is celebrating a remarkable journey in the radio industry. Completing a milestone today, her career spans...read more
MUMBAI: antiSOCIAL and Xoxo Acid Girl hosts a night of high-voltage acid, raw rave energy, and femme-powered anarchy. Curated by Ana Lilia, this...read more
