MUMBAI: Sun TV, through its subsidiary Kal Radio, is launching its FM station at Kannur on 12 March under the brand name SFM. With this launch, the network will have 25 stations all across the country.SFM is already operational Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi, Tiruchy, Rajahmundry, Kanpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur and Mangalore The company will launch 20 more stations to complete 45 stations in India.
read moreMUMBAI: BPL Mobile has introduced 'BPL Mobile Jukebox', a mobile radio service that will allow its subscribers to get hooked onto their choice of music while they are on the move. BPL Mobile Jukebox is a Full-Song mobile Music service offering a variety of songs ranging from Bollywood to Devotional, from English to Ghazals and from Retro to Regional at fingertips. The service would be available to both post-paid and pre-paid subscribers of BPL Mobile.
read moreMUMBAI: Mogae, the investment vehicle of Sandeep and Tanya Goyal who own 26 per cent equity in the Dentsu joint-ventures in India, have partnered with US based MCM (Music Content Management) in a 50:50 joint-venture to launch 'mall or retail-radio' in the country. The concept of 'mall or retail-radio' venture promoted by Mogae-MCM will be commercially launched in the next six weeks. The company has already launched test installations at various retail chains and malls in Mumbai and Delhi.
read moreNEW 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.
read moreMUMBAI: 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.
read moreMUMBAI: Singer turned music director Adnan Sami has set his sights on Bollywood in 2008.
read moreMUMBAI: After Ahmedabad and Surat, RCS India has now started its monitoring services for radio in Lucknow.
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: 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).
read moreBANGALORE: 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.
read moreMUMBAI: 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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