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MUMBAI: Big FM Hyderabad in association with DVV Danaiah has launched the music of Ravi Teja's Telugu film Krishna. As an exclusive radio partner, Big FM will promote Krishna with its on-air and on-ground activities and campaigns. The station will feature interviews with the cast and crew of the movie, and also run contests for its listeners across Hyderabad, Tirupathi and Vishakapatnam.
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MUMBAI: Anisha Banerji has been appointed national sales head of Big Street, the out-of-home advertising division of Big FM. In her new role, Banerji will handle the revenue generation function for Big Street and will be responsible for the profits at the national level. In 2006, she joined Big FM as sales head, Maharashtra and was instrumental in setting up the sales team. She moved up as director of planning and strategy, spearheading several projects in the digital space of film promotions before assuming her new role at Big Street.
read moreNEW DELHI: The government has postponed for the fourth time the financial bidding for the remaining 97 FM radio stations across 48 cities. Set for 29 December and 10 January, the 27 short-listed private FM radio companies will now submit their bids on 14 and 21 January, sources in the industry told Indiantelevision.com. Earlier bidding dates of 7 November and 14 December were also postponed.
read moreMUMBAI: The Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) is going innovative this festive season. The licensing arm of the Indian Music Industry has decided to send its staff to select venues having year end bashes. The vigilance staff will attend the parties incognito and record the activities if the parties are found playing licensed music without paying the requisite fees. The PPL then plans to seek legal recourse and claim damages and penalty from the offending party organisers.
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MUMBAI: Adnan Sami has teamed up with T Series to release his next album, "Best Friends". The album, released by T-Series on 27 December,has lyrics written by Sameer. Choreographer Remo has directed the song 'Assalamwalekum'. Sami and T Series have earlier teamed up for 'Tera Chehra' and his last album 'Kisi Din'.
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MUMBAI: Hyderabad's Radio City 91.1 FM is broadcasting live from a local mall to celebrate a weeklong Whatte Fun festival. From 7 am to 9 pm the FM station is going live through a studio set up at City Centre Mall. As part of the activity, The Radio City Breakfast Show, City Spice, Meeru Nenu and City Joyride will be aired live from the premises of the mall. Singers from the Telugu film industry - Deepu, Aditya, Bhargavi, Geeta Madhuri as well as actors Aditya Om and Shruti will be joining the Radio City team for the festive special broadcast.
read moreMUMBAI: Two FM stations have hit the airwaves of Puducherry. Reliance ADAG's Big FM has launched its 41st station in Puducherry, while Malar Publications' Hello FM has launched its sixth station. Already operational in places that include Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore among others, Big FM will launch four more stations to complete its total count of 45 stations across India. Big FM Pondicherry shows are Suprabatham, Inia Vazhtugal, breakfast show Big Vanakkam, Chinna Chinna aasai, o Podu, Ennama Kannu and Ragasiyamaai among others.
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV Network's SFM through its subsidiary Kal Radio has launched in Vijayawada. After the launch, its total number of SFM stations will go up to 17 across India. SFM is already operational in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut) and Indore. The company will launch 28 more stations to be present in 45 stations all over India.
read moreMUMBAI: The Thrissur station of Best FM 95, a radio station launched by Asianet, was inaugurated on Sunday. Staging of programmes by participants of Idea Star Singer contest, comedy skits and dance shows marked the inauguration. Best FM is the third private FM Station started operations from Kerala in less than two weeks.The first private FM station of Kerala Radio Mango from the Malayala Manorama group of publications, that started its operation from Calicut followed by the SFM from Sun TV network.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio City has tied up with Universal Music for exclusive radio rights of The Eagles music album Long Road out of Eden. As part of this association, Radio City is conducting a three-day Eagles special on its City City Bang Bang. This includes an exclusive 'Eagles in conversation' interview, airplay of tracks from the album, exciting contests and back-to-back Eagles tracks on the show. The FM station will also provide Eagles merchandise, twin-pack CDs of Long Road out of Eden and DVDs of the Hell Freezes Over album.
read moreMUMBAI: Red FM has launched a contest 'Red Superhit Santa Ki Jholi Main Kya'to celebrate Christmas, wherein actor Ranbir Kapoor will be the 'Red Santa'. Besides Red FM in association with Globus and Cancer Patients Association, is inviting Mumbaikars to donate presents and garments for needy and deprived children. All the presents thus collected will be placed inside a huge stocking installed at Globus. The stocking has seen support from Bollywood fraternity including John Abraham, Shilpa Shetty and Dino Morea.
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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: 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
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: 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
