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MUMBAI: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in the US will create an American Idol attraction.
read moreMUMBAI: MTV India, the youth music channel under Viacom18, has launched a new contest 'MTV License 2 Flirt' with White Mischief Vodka. The contest has been created by Viacom18's marketing and business development arm Viacom Brand Solutions (VBS). The MTV 'Licence 2 Flirt' is a seven-week campaign, wherein the MTV crew will visit 50 outlets across 11 metro cities to check the flirt-quotient of youth with computer test. The 11 winners will be called to a party where they can flirt with Bollywood actor Zayed Khan and other MTV VJs.
read moreMUMBAI: Movin 92.5 (KQMV-FM) has launched a search for Seattle's Baby Idol. The FM station has invited listeners to send in pictures of their kids aged five years and under to compete in a series of online voting. One baby will be crowned as Seattle's Baby Idol. Along with the title comes a newly outfitted room, shopping sprees and many more prizes. 100 pictures have already been received, claimed an official release.
read moreNEW DELHI: In a major shift in policy that meets a long-standing demand, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has suggested increase in FDI (foreign direct investment) cap for private FM radio broadcasters and also recommended that they may be permitted to broadcast news. For those who are interested in broadcasting news, the FDI cap including FII should be hiked to 26 per cent from the present 20 per cent. And for the non-news category of FM radio operators, the cap should be enhanced to 49 per cent.
read moreBANGALORE: Radio Farishta, the 24-hour classic (retro) Hindi film music station on WorldSpace Satellite Radio, celebrates Khayyam Saab's 81st birthday with a special series dedicated to his music and his journey in the Hindi film industry. Airing at 10:00 pm from Monday to Friday through the rest of February, the series promises listeners a peek into the veteran's life, love and of course, his music.
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Mumbai: Times Music has unveiled the soundtrack of the movie Brahm. Produced by Magna Films, the film is slated to release in mid-March. The music of the film has been rendered by Pritam and Siddharth-Suhas. The audio comprises six tracks - Jaane kaisa ha tu, I am Bad Boy, Jaane kyun, Lagdaa naa lagdaa naa, Teri aakhaon ki narmi and Meri akhiyaan.The songs are sung by Shaan, Kay Kay, Sonu Nigaam and Richa Sharma. Directed by Pavan Kaul, Brahm stars Dino Morea, Milind Soman, Sheetal Menon and Simone Singh. Brahm is a suspense thriller revolving around relationships.
read moreMUMBAI: News Corp's social networking site MySpace is drawing up plans to create a new ad funded service that would allow consumer to listen to music for free on their PCs.
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MUMBAI: The music of One Two Three directed by Ashwini Dhir released at Mumbai's JW Marriot. Composed by fast rising talent Raghav Sachchar, the music has been released through Eros Music .
read moreMUMBAI: Sony BMG has finally secured the music rights of 'Jannat - In search of Heaven' after Vishesh Films, the producers of the film, settled their long-drawn legal dispute with T-Series. T-series withdrew its legal claims and both the parties have settled the issue amicably with the intervention of Pahlaj Nihalani, president of AMPTPP and Dispute Settlement Committee members. Sony BMG had always claimed that the music rights of Jannat belonged to them. However, it had to be put under the scanner after T-Series claimed similar rights.
read moreMUMBAI: A recent research by AccuStream iMedia found out that music radio online (live streaming channels and individual track plays) generated 4.85 billion total listening hours in 2007, which is 26.1% up over 2006. The total listening hours averaged 404.2 million hours per month in 2007 (excluding downloaded music) compared to 320.5 million hour in an average in 2006, which included leading music subscription services such as Napster, Yahoo Music and Rhapsody.
read moreMUMBAI: Vehrnon Ibrahim is joining Radio One as national programming head on 3 March. He comes in from Red FM where he was the national programming head. Radio One CEO Vineet Singh Hukmani said, "Vehrnon is the only natural programming head in the radio industry and is a perfect fit for our metro city focus." Ibrahim said, "It is going to be fun steering this station brand to the top position. What attracted me to Radio One was the seven metro city focussed game plan."
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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: 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: 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: 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
