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MUMBAI: Madison Communications has bagged the Special Award for Best Radio Innovation, instituted by RAM (the Radio Audience Measurement division of TAM Media Research) for its 'Saffola (World Heart Day) - Radio Mumbai-Bringing Mumbai together' campaign at the Emvies 2008. The award, instituted for the first time, was a second feather in the cap for Madison Communications, which walked away with the Grand Emvie for the same radio campaign too.
read moreMUMBAI: Zee Network launched Zee Radio in the UK. Shah Rukh Khan announced the launch of the Bollywood-centred radio station in the Zee Carnival 2008 held in London. Zee Radio is currently available in Greater London on 558 AM between 7 am and 1 pm daily and on DAB 24 hours a day. Online streaming will be available shortly. Khan, who was the face of the three-day event at the Olympia, London, congratulated Zee on its new initiative saying, "I would take this opportunity to congratulate Zee for the launch of their new radio, Zee Radio 558 AM (and DAB)."
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MUMBAI: Nirupam Sonu, National Creative Director at Big FM has been elevated to the position of Vice President - Programming. The decision to promote Sonu comes in the wake of programming VP's Manav Dhanda's shift to Big Broadcasting as senior vice president and business head of its to be launched kids movie channel, and will be handling movie projects for Big Broadcasting.
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MUMBAI: Meow 104.8 FM has introduced Meri Meow, a social network for fans of India's first 'just for women' radio network. Radio Meow COO Anil Srivatsa says, "The website is essentially a medium to expand your network; a common platform for the Meow family to facilitate interactions between the listeners and the radio jocks. This is just a small version of our planned website, much more is coming."
read moreMUMBAI: After 20 years of association with EMI Records, international rock band the Rolling Stones, have switched loyalties to Vivendi SA's Universal Music. This is regarded as the second high profile act after Guy Hands had acquired the label last year. On Friday, Universal confirmed that both the band's future projects will be with the label. The label would also include their back catalogue including albums as "Sticky Fingers" and "Black and Blue" and songs "Brown Sugar" and "Start Me Up."
read moreMUMBAI: Media Worldwides music entertainment channel Music India will be showing Punjabi news for its UK viewers. For this, it has entered into a content deal with Punjabi news channel PTC News. As per the deal, Music India will telecast news bulletins and current affairs shows produced by PTC News.
read moreMUMBAI: The shareholders of the US radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications Inc have approved the $17.9 billion takeover of the company by private equity funds Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H Lee Partners LP. As per Clear Channel, approximately 97 per cent of the shares, voted at a special shareholders meeting on 24 July, were cast in favour of the deal. This will end a 20-month effort as the merger agreement of Clear Channel with the Bain/Lee group was first drafted in November 2006. Now, the parties are planning the $36-a-share buyout on 30 July.
read moreMUMBAI: UK is the leading mobile music market in the EU-5, says a report by eMarketer. The report says that the EU-5 mobile music mobile retail revenue will exceed US $1.4 billion in 2012.
read moreMUMBAI: UK ministers have proposed a plan that envisages millions of broadband users coughing up an annual levy which would allow them to download music from the internet. Users could face an annual charge to ?30 to download music, reports The Independent. Online piracy has lowered the physical sale in the market, with studies indicating that about 95 per cent of music downloads from the Internet are illegal. The money raised from this initiative would be channeled back to the rights-holders. Artists responsible for the most popular songs will receive a bigger slice of the cash.
read moreMUMBAI: Social networking site MySpace India will launch a new music service for its users by November this year, enabling its members to listen to free streaming music as well as purchase and download song downloads from the site.
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MUMBAI: Mumbai based percussionist Vivek Rajagopalan has invented a unique technique to help corporates learn team building, leadership qualities and improvisation skills through music. This new innovation which connects the principles followed by the corporate work culture to that of Music, Rhythms and Beats is called RythmInc.
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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: Renowned Bollywood playback singer and composer Amit Trivedi is thrilled to announce his latest, Azaad Collab. Known for his soulful voice...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
