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MUMBAI: Sun Network will launch its FM radio station in Shillong this week through its subsidiary South Asia FM. Currently Shillong has only one private FM radio station Radio Ooo La La by NE Television Networks apart from AIR. Talking about this new development, SFM project head Nisha Narayanan avers, "It is challenging for any national player to break through and compete with a local player. The broadcasters based regionally understand the local ethos and pose as a threat to any national player."
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Hong Kong: Internet service providers (ISPs) are looking at a future where their added value is going to come from tiered packages of commercial content, according to U2 manager Paul McGuinness. Delivering the keynote address on the opening day of Music Matters in Hong Kong on 4 June, McGuinness said the lines between distribution and content are getting blurred with the gold rush of broadband expansion on the wane. Citing the examples of News Corp and Apple, McGuinness said the trend would now be for companies not just to accentuate distribution, but to protect their content as well.
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Hong Kong: The Asian story continues to glow. By 2011, the Asia Pacific region will represent 33 per cent of global music market, and 40 per cent of global digital revenues. Advanced mobile networks/handsets and expanding broadband penetration, not surprisingly, will be the key growth drivers in the region.
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Hong Kong : Music Matters, the forum for the music industry in Asia, kicks off this morning, playing host to over 750 delegates from all over the Asia Pacific region.
read moreMUMBAI: SpiralFrog will now begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music. Terms of the deal between the two giants have not yet been disclosed. SpiralFrog is the latest entry into the music subscription space. It is an ad-supported service that allows registered users to download music tracks and music videos for free. The ads pay for the music and the company splits the ad revenue with the record companies.
read moreMUMBAI: Big FM Chennai celebrated the 'Tamilian Pride' by conducting the first Semi Finals of the talent hunt on radio ?‹?“Big Singaara Singer. The audition was judged by prominent Tamil personalities like music director Vijay Anthony, playback singers Rahul Nambiar and Krish. This is the first of the two on-ground semi final rounds that are going to be conducted after the on-air preliminary rounds to identify two voices from Chennai. The two winners will be featured as playback singers by music director Vijay Anthony in his forthcoming movie.
read moreMUMBAI: Virgin Radio executive chairman Richard Huntingford will be leaving his post following the station's ?53.2 million (105 million) sale to the Times of India Group. This is the second time in a year that Huntingford is exiting from a radio company following its sale. Before this, he was the chief executive of Chrysalis, until the radio division was sold to Global Radio last year.
read moreBANGLORE: Radio advertisement just underwent a revolution today. Just for today, RJs of six stations of Radio One will introduce the station as Radio Fastrack 94.3 FM, the station for a ?‹?“Move on generation and the station will repeat the Fastrack theme of ?‹?“Move On throughout the campaign. Fastrack, the watch and sunglasses brand from Titan Industries Limited (Titan) stable has partnered with Radio One for promotions and on-air contests with Fastrack gear as the prizes during different time slots. The Fastrack promos started last Thursday and will end this weekend.
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MUMBAI: US based Columbia Records, a premier subsidiary label of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc. has launched itself as an independent label of Sony BMG India. Music director Sandeep Chowta has been penciled in to head the label. The key aim of the label is to skew the indi-pop scenario in India which has been neglected by the Indian music industry since Bollywood has been dominating the market.
read moreMUMBAI: The radio sector in India has taken more than 50 years to grow from infancy to adolescence. Regulatory reforms, including opening up of the sector to private players and replacement of the fixed license fee regime with a revenue-sharing license regime has led to a renaissance in this sector that was languishing a few years back.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi announces its 'Going Green' campaign to mark the World Environment Day on June 5, 2008
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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: 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
