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NEW DELHI: Big FM is the official radio partner for the Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week, starting from 12 March, and in this second season as radio partner, it is going to go live from the venue, Big FM station director Punit Mathur told indiantelevision.com. We are going to go live this year, and expect a lot many more listeners for the event, Mathur said.
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MUMBAI: VJ turned actor turned radio jockey Vrajesh Hirjee is quitting the radio world. Hirjee has been co hosting Big FM's breakfast show 'Big Chai' with RJ Archana Jani and comedian Raju Shrivastav.
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MUMBAI: Singer turned music director Adnan Sami has set his sights on Bollywood in 2008.
read moreMUMBAI: Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL) has amended the designations of Radio Mirchi's three key employees - Kaushik Ghosh, Riya Mukherjee and Kavita Bagga.
read moreMUMBAI: After Ahmedabad and Surat, RCS India has now started its monitoring services for radio in Lucknow.
read moreMUMBAI: 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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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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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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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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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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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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MUMBAI: Today, M3F Festival, Northread more
MUMBAI: Hoopr, a leader in the royalty-free music space, is proud to unveil its latest innovationread more
As part of its refresh, the radio network recently launched its flagship show Dhun Badal Ke Toh...read more
MUMBAI: In a world where men are often encouraged to hide their emotions, we tend to overlook theread more
MUMBAI: Devi Sri Prasad aka Rockstar DSP, seems to be spreading his musical magic across the town! With the recently released Suriya starrer ‘Kanguva...read more
MUMBAI: Toronto-born quadruple–threat–rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, and professional volleyball player – Kofi today released his third studio...read more
MUMBAI: Today, the genre-defying brother duo Everyone You Know (EYK) release brand new album, ‘Ain’t Smiled in Ages’. Listen to the album [HERE]....read more
MUMBAI: India’s premier music licensing platform, Hoopr, has announced the release of "Khoobsurat" by Aditya Mishra, known artistically as Outsky....read more
MUMBAI: Club FM took an innovative turn for Children’s Day with Club FM RJ, engaging young talents across our six stations. The initiative invited...read more
