|  07 Mar 2008

Adlabs makes internal assessment on FM radio demerger proposal

MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG's move to demerge its radio business from Adlabs Films Ltd. seems to have hit the wall with the information and broadcasting ministry yet to approve the proposal. Adlbas, sources say, is discussing internally whether it should set itself a deadline or make a revised application. Adlabs, however, still hopes that the proposal to demerge the radio business will get the I&B nod.Though Reliance had housed its FM radio business under Adlabs, it had subsequently applied to the ministry for transferring it to Reliance Unicom Ltd (RUL).

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 |  06 Mar 2008

Sonu Niigaam cuts Kannada songs album

BANGALORE: Sonu Niigaam's next album will be a medley of Kannada songs, penned by Jayant Kaikini. Niigaam, who is also planning an album of songs dedicated to his spiritual guru Mohammad Rafi, says he is working with Manu Murthi on the Kannada album.Niigaams Kannada songs have been quite popular in Karnataka and he was also nominated among the best playback singers for a song he had sung for a Kannada film for the recently held Pyramid Saimira Cine Gandha Awards 2007 - Kannada Film awards with Kasthuri TV.

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 |  06 Mar 2008

Amar Deb quits Channel [V]; to start web venture

MUMBAI: Channel [V] head honcho Amar K Deb has put in his papers, ending his eight-year relationship with the music channel. Deb is planning to float his own content-selling portal called Rowdy Rascals, sources say. When contacted, Deb, however, said that he was looking at prospects in the web space without spelling out further details. "I have put in my papers and would be in the web space, but cannot divulge more details at this point," he told Indiantelevision.com.

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 |  04 Mar 2008

Channel [V], Virgin Mobile make live Bollywood flick

MUMBAI: Tata Teleservices' (TTL) Virgin Mobile and youth music channel Channel [V] together shot the live Bollywood flick Andaaz Apna Very Hatke. The 20-minute flick starred Virgin Group chairman and founder Richard Branson opposite Bollywood actor Neha Dhupia. The true masala Bollywood flick was aired on Channel [V] at 9 pm just after half an hour of shoot. Andaaz Apna Very Hatke was shot with 50 cameras and a crew of 200 members. Earlier in the day, the Virgin Group, in association with TTL, has launched its youth-focused mobile service Virgin Mobile India.

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 |  04 Mar 2008

Saregama plans total entertainment portal

MUMBAI: One of the first players to use the digital space, Saregama India plans to re-enter the arena with a vengeance this year.

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 |  03 Mar 2008

Big FM launches Sonu Niigaam single 'Punjabi Please'

MUMBAI : Big FM has created history of sorts in the country by becoming the first radio station to tie up with an arist to market a single composed and sung by him.

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 |  03 Mar 2008

Chinese music copyright society sues search engine

MUMBAI : China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation. The Music Copyright Society of China claims that Baidu.com Inc provided "music listening, broadcasting and downloading services in various forms on its Website without approval, and through unfettered piracy, earning huge advertising revenue on its huge number of hits," says an AP report.Baidu is China's most popular search engine, with 60.1 per cent of the sector's revenues, according to Analysys International, a Beijing-based research firm.

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 |  03 Mar 2008

'Heroes' TV soundtrack to be released on 18 March

MUMBAI: NBC Universal Television's DVD, music and consumer products group in the US will release the soundtrack for the show Heroes on 18 March 2008. In India, the show airs on Star World.

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 |  01 Mar 2008

Kajol, Ajay Devgan launch Radio One's 'Dating Fatafat'

MUMBAI : Bollywood couple Kajol and Ajay Devgan launched Radio One's third annual Speed Dating event, "Radio One Presents - Dating Fatafat", in Mumbai on Friday evening.

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 |  01 Mar 2008

Radio Taiwan seeks integration through airwaves

NEW DELHI - Radio Taiwan International held its biennial Listeners' Club Meet in Delhi on Saturday. Previously held in March 2006 in New Delhi and Kolkata, the RTI delegates visited Chennai and Kolkata along with New Delhi this year. Speaking to the members of the listeners' club, RTI chairman Yu Cheng said, "We aim to achieve international cooperation through our programming and news. Although Taiwan has a population of over 22 million, we still haven't been granted a place in the WHO."

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 |  01 Mar 2008

Mumbai University's Must Radio begins transmission

MUMBAI : Inaugurated by the president of India Pratibha Patil on Friday evening, the Mumbai University's community FM radio venture began transmission at 7 pm the same day. Christened Must Radio (an acronym for Mumbai University Students' Transmission), the station will operate for four hours daily - from 7 am to 9 am and 7 pm to 9 pm daily. MUMBAI : Inaugurated by the president of India Pratibha Patil on Friday evening, the Mumbai University's community FM radio venture began transmission at 7 pm the same day.

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