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MUMBAI: Fever FM in partnership with Vodafone has planned an on air contest, ?‹?“Vodafone Fever contest from 14 April.
read moreMUMBAI: The Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association of India Ltd (RAPA), which honours creative work in the radio and television field, has attracted 1,000 nominations for the 33rd All India RAPA Awards for Excellence 2007. Last year, RAPA received 700 nominations for the awards."We are happy to get a phenomenal increase of more than 43 per cent in the number of nominations for the 33rd All India RAPA Awards for Excellence 2007," said RAPA Awards committee chairman Viresh Chaddha.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi Mumbai is in the celebrating mood. The station completes six years in the Indian entertainment and music industry. Radio Mirchi had had certain memorable shows on air in the past six years like; Mega contest for children - Destination NASA with actor Aamir Khan, Hello Mumbai initiative for victims of building collapse in Borivali, Vote for the Taj campaign, Mirchi Mumbai Watch Brigade. To strengthen its music expertise and programming, Radio Mirchi has introduced a bouquet of new shows and has recently revamped its existing shows.
read moreBANGALORE: Zee Kannada has announced the fourth season of its talent hunt reality show Sa Ri Ga Ma Pa. This season, like the immediate previous one, will be called Lil Champs and is aimed at children between the age group of seven and 12 years. The new season starts on 12 April. Miditech Bangalore is the production house for the programme.
read moreMUMBAI: Idol Gives Back, the charity initiative from Fox's music-based reality show American Idol, has raised $60 million from corporates and individuals. Six charities, including Children's Defense Fund, The Children's Health Fund, The Global Fund and Make It Right, stand to benefit from this initiative. Also on the on-air show, finalist Michael Johns was eliminated from the competition after he received the fewest of America's approximately 31 million votes.
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV Networks private FM station SFM is launching in Jamshedpur on 13 April. SFM is part of Sun TVs subsidiary, South Asia FM Ltd. With the launch of SFM in Guwahati, the total operational FM Stations of Sun TV will go up to 30.
read moreMUMBAI: The Folklore Society of Pakistan (FSP) has selected well-known 'qawal party' Ustad Akhtar Sharif-Sabir (Aroop Waley) from Gujranwala, Javed Bashir Ahmed, the principal singer of Mekal Hasan band and Ustad Shafi Muhammad Faqir, the renowned singer from Cholistan and his group to perform at 'Bhakti Utsav', the annual festival of mystic music being held at Nehru Park from 11 to 13 April 2008.
read moreMUMBAI: Although Apple scored top marks in the 2008 Brandjunkie survey, Apple's popular iPod range didn't make the top three in a poll of 293 MP3 players. According to online consumer review site www.reevoo.com, the MP3 player race was dominated by Sony with the Sony NWE016BC just nudging the Sony NWZA816 into second place. Third was the Hitachi DMP20 2GB, followed by the New Green iPod Nano 8GB in fourth and the Black Samsung YP-P2JCB 8GB in fifth.
read moreMUMBAI: Audiences in North Bengal and Sikkim can now listen to the BBC's infotainment shows on the Siliguri-based Radio Misty 94.3 FM.
read moreMUMBAI: Worldspace Satellite Radio has received an approval from Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's Federal Network Agency to provide German consumers with a subscription-based satellite radio service in automobiles. It authorized World Space to use 12.5 MHz of spectrum in the L-band (1479.5 - 1492 MHz) on a nation-wide basis for the operation of a terrestrial repeater network in Germany.
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MUMBAI: Punekars got their second private radio station with Radio City 91.1 FM making its launch in the city. Radio Mirchi is already operational in Pune. This is Radio City's 18th FM station in India and its seventh station in Maharashtra.
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MUMBAI: Sennheiser, a renowned leader in audio technology, showcased various audio solutions at Bread more
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, is proud to announcread more
MUMBAI: Swastik Productions, renowned for its mythological and spiritual television productions has announced a remarkable celebration of Lord...read more
MUMBAI: Liva, the pioneering Canadian metal band known for their unique fusion of classical and heavy metal, has released a captivating music video...read more
