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MUMBAI: Walt Disney Records has partnered with Napster, an online music file sharing service, for an exclusive commercial-free "Best of Disney" radio station, featuring music from Disney's world-renowned catalog. Offering a collection of digital music for kids, 'tweens and families, Napster's "Best of Disney" radio station will features favorites from the Walt Disney records catalog, including Disney artists like Hannah Montana, High School Musical, along with the new Camp Rock soundtrack album featuring the Jonas Brothers.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio City Hyderabad's hunt for the Fun Jockey ended on 12 July, with the title of 'Navvula Don' awarded to Asif who won the contest and became the first Fun Jockey of the radio station. Shiva Reddy and Telugu superstar Madhushalini judged the grand finale of the contest. The finale was hosted by RJ Vamsee and RJ Akira. The audience witness their favourite Fun Jockeys performing live at the City Center Mall. Radio City had organised the month long 'Navvula Don' - a hunt to zero in on the wittiest Telugu Fun Jockey in the city of Hyderabad with his sense of humour.
read moreMUMBAI: As part of its seventh anniversary celebrations, Radio City Lucknow brought out a unique platform to honour and felicitate its loyal, long-standing listeners. Named 'Radio City Fan Mela', the show will go on for three weeks. The show is on 'Whatte Fun Mornings' hosted by RJ Vera and on City Joyride hosted by RJ Meenu.
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MUMBAI: Big FM's Mumbai station has launched Campus 927, which brings in fun-filled light moments of college life for its listeners. The show goes on for 52 weeks in association with the best college in the city. The show features in RJ Rishi's 'Chal kalti maar', every week. The show has already featured some of the top colleges of Mumbai like Jai Hind, SNDT, Usha Pravin Gandhi College & Rizvi College of Architecture.
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MUMBAI: Runner up of Sony's first season of Indian Idol, Rahul Vaidya was adjudged Star Plus' first singing 'Superstar' this weekend. Star claims that the musical reality show, Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar, has topped the TRP charts week after week in its genre. Leading the race, Rahul Vaidya won the title with 216693 votes, while Abhijeet and Harshit came second and third with 202321 and 156291 votes.
read moreMUMBAI: The most awaited 8GB Apple iPod launched on 11 July in 22 countries worldwide. The new model combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software. The new phone has updates features compared to the earlier ones. The price of the new handset has cut down to $199 to be one of the cheapest models in the United States.
read moreMUMBAI: A Parks Associates survey has found that a majority of US and Canadian citizens use the PC and Television to listen to music. Estimates say two-thirds of the broadband households surveyed regularly use the PC to play music while at home, and one-third use a television to listen to music. In a new report by Digital Media Habits II, MP3 players ranked equal to TVs, with one-third of households using these platforms for music. Digital Media Habits II is a study of media trends in the US and Canada.
read moreMUMBAI: Tribe of Noise will launch a website providing a podium to composers all over the world and offering legal free music downloads on 14 July. At Tribe of Noise, composers can upload their music under a Creative Commons license that allows fans and professionals to download, distribute and build upon it.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio city's regional head west of sound and technology Federick D'mello, has put in his papers. D'mello has been associated with the radio station for a decade now. D'mello confirms, "I had joined Radio city as a sound engineer and have learnt a lot about the workings of the radio industry. I had an amazing learning experience with Radio city."
read moreMUMBAI: Bhaskar Group's My FM is set to counsel its listeners about the virtues of small family and the ill effects of population explosion on the 'World Population Day' on 11 July. All the 17 stations of My FM will spread the message of Chhota Pariwar Sukhi Pariwar (small family is happy family). The RJs will also share interesting facts based on population data. Additionally, the stations will also be holding street play competition among the local colleges.
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MUMBAI: Media Worldwide, which runs Hindi music channel Music India and Bangla music channel Sangeet Bangla, is set to launch a Bhojpuri music channel on 14 July. Sangeet Bhojpuri will be the first music channel in Bhojpuri language. The back-to-back music format of Sangeet Bhojpuri will be same as Music India. It will have "simply music" round the clock.
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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: Renowned Bollywood playback singer and composer Amit Trivedi is thrilled to announce his latest, Azaad Collab. Known for his soulful voice...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
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
