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MUMBAI: VH1, a division of Viacom's MTV Networks, is launching a new mobile game that extends the on-air series Flavor of Love. Launching at the end of April, The Flavor of Love mobile game will join VH1 Mobile's growing list of mobile games including the pop culture trivia game Know it All and Best Week Ever, a downloadable trivia game based on the VH1 series.
read moreMUMBAI: Big FM has appointed Rohit Dhar as the regional director - East. He will be reporting directly to Big FM regional head East and South Soumen Choudhary. Prior to this, Dhar was the cluster head of Uttar Pradesh and station head of Lucknow for Radio Mirchi. In his new position, Dhar will be working towards developing on-air properties for brands and providing marketing solutions to clients. His span of work would encompass overall functioning of the stations in the East.
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV Network through its subsidiary Kal Radio is launching SFM in Mysore on 3 April. With the launch of this FM Station, the total operational FM Stations of Sun TV has reached 28 across India.SFM already operates in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal,Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi, Tiruchy, Rajahmundry, Kanpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Mangalore, Kannur, Allahabad and Jabalpur.
read moreMumbai: Mukta Arts has lined up a number of projects for 2008, and has already signed on composers who will score the music for these films.
read moreMumbai: Star India has appointed Mohit Anand, former Microsoft India (Entertainment and Devices Division) country manager, as general manager for Channel [V]. Anand will take charge of Channel [V] from 21 April. He replaces Amar K Deb who recently quit the channel to float his own content-selling portal. Speaking to Indiantelevision.com, Anand said: "I have quit Microsoft and am joining Channel [V] from 21 April. I have experience in entertainment. Being a part of Xbox 360, our target audience was youth."
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MUMBAI: After giving rocking hits in Rohit Shetty's Sunday and Zinda, Shibani Kashyap has now created music for the Manisha Koirala-Kay Kay Menon starrer 'Sirf'. Shibani has sung and composed the title track of the film, music of which is now out on Sony BMG. Sirf is a Seven Eagle production movie directed by Rajaatesh Nayar and also stars Ranveer Shorey, Sonali Kulkarni, Parveen Dabbas, Rituparna Sengupta and Nauheed Cyrusi. Recently, Kashyap had created a romantic song for Sanjay Gupta's first English film, The Great Indian Butterfly.
read moreMumbai: Manoj George has come on board Big FM as National Sales Director. The ADAG led FM venture has promoted Bipin Grewal as Regional Head-West, while Arjun Rao will be the Regional Head-South and Aasheesh Dhamija will be the Regional Director-North. Just last week, Big FM promoted Arjun Singgh Baran to the post of regional director for Operations-West, while Sudarshan Saha has stepped in as the new station head, Mumbai. P B Ramaswamy, who was the station manager, Chennai will now be the cluster head for Tamil Nadu.
read moreMumbai: Shravan Rathod, part of the Nadeem-Shravan duo, has sold the music rights of his debut production Kash Mere Hote to Eros International. The film stars newcomer Kumar Sahil and Sneha Ullal. Music for the film has been composed by Shravan and will be released some time in April. Says the music director turned producer, "It is an one film deal with Eros as of now. But going ahead, we do intend to work together."
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Mumbai: FX Labs will be designing a computer and console game for Aamir Khan's forthcoming film which is a remake of Ghajini. Ace musician Allah Rakha Rahman will be giving the background score for the same. Confirms FX Labs co founder Sashi Reddy, "Yes, Rahman will be composing the music. However, he is the composer for the film, it is too early to talk about the game's music." The game will be launched a month before the film releases, that is this year end.FX labs is also developing a game on Dhoom 2 titled D 2.5 which will hit the stores in April.
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Mumbai: Wellknown RnB / pop producer David Anthony has forayed into Indian pop by collaborating with Indian pop artist Reenie for a full Hindi album.
read moreMumbai: Sangeet Bangla, the Bengali music channel from Media Worldwide, has climbed up to the third position among Bangla GECs, according to the TAM data for week 12. The company, that also runs Hindi music channel Music India, claims to be number one Bangla music channel since the past three years. According to TAM figures, Sangeet Bangla notched up a channel share of 2.09 per cent among the target audience of 15 to 24. The channel offers Bangla music, ranging from the classic to the modern.
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, is proud to announcread more
MUMBAI: IPRS, Indian Performing Rights Society, hosted a one of its kind landmark event aimed at read more
MUMBAI: Xiaomi India, a global technology brand renowned for its innovation, today announced a stread more
MUMBAI: UK-based audio software company DataMind Audio is launching its flagship plugin, The Combread more
MUMBAI: Ultra Media & Entertainment Group today announced the launch of a ground breaking bouread more
MUMBAI: This is the first time that Shruti have created a multilingual track which includes the lyrics in three different languages Shruti Haasan who...read more
MUMBAI: Renowned Bollywood playback singer and composer Amit Trivedi is thrilled to announce his latest, Azaad Collab. Known for his soulful voice...read more
MUMBAI: Armaan Malik, hailed as the Prince of Pop, is aiming to bridge the gap between two different music sensibilities once again with his latest...read more
MUMBAI: Pop star Dhvani Bhanushali is all set to headline this year’s prestigious Mysore Dussehra, sharing the spotlight with musical legends like A....read more
