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MUMBAI:The Big 92.7 FM RJs Saurav and Sanjay from Hissar station will be on-air for 48 hours continuously to support a Hepatitis C patient - Jogender Singh, who is unable to meet his own medical treatment due to financial constraints. The jocks will be heard live 24x7 from 22 December from 7 am till 24 December 6 am requesting people to support Singh and sharing information on preventive measures on Hepatitis C. In addition to this on-air marathon, Big FM has also organized a rally on today to request people to come forward and raise money for the treatment.
read moreMUMBAI: Simi Garewal is coming up in a new avatar on NDTV Imagine. The Rendezvous with Simi... host will now judge musical entertainment show Say Shava Shava on upcoming Hindi general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine. Karan Johar and Garewal will judge the singing capabilities of soap stars Aman Verma, Apurva Agnihotri, Divyanka Tripathi, Juhi Parmar, Mannish Goel, Mouni Roy, Narayani Shastri, Pulkit Samrat and Sumeet Raghvan.
read moreMumbai: Media major UTV Motion Pictures will launch its music label, UTV Music with the release of Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar next week, it is learnt. Music for the film, which was previously to be released by Big Music, has been scored by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
read moreMUMBAI: Channel [V] is launching [V] Campus Star beginning February 2008. Through this competition, Channel [V] will single out one college from India that rocks on the college festival circuit, championed by one representative. [V] Campus Star will give away a cash prize of Rs 5,00,000 to the winning campus and "the coolest guy/gal," along with a complete Channel [V] style makeover for his/her college.
read moreMUMBAI: Big FM Kolkata station is launching Komlalebu week to celebrate winter with various shows and contests. The Komlalebu week will kick start with RJ Mou doing Kelenkari with the listeners atop the gently floating vessels on the river Ganges.RJ Riddhi and Preksha with a bus full of kids will spend a whole day at the Alipur Zoo as well. There will also be a fancy dress competition for the little ones. As a part of the campaign two children will get an opportunity to meet Aamir Khan.
read moreNEW DELHI: The Ficci Radio Forum has sent a memorandum to the I&B ministry requesting wide ranging policy reforms for the industry, including licenses across the country and allowing news, and also asked it to resolve issue between the industry and the music industry. Despite the Indian radio industry being a true mass medium, covering 97 per cent of the populace, available in 24 languages and 146 dialects, Ficci says it is facing a challenge from the Indian Performing Rights Society, IPRS and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL).
read moreNEW DELHI: While the number of FM Channels in the country has grown from ten to more than 200, the penetration of radio has only risen marginally from 45 to 53 per cent since the channels are not able to give creative programming in the absence of permission to broadcast news and current affairs.
read moreMUMBAI: Fever 104 FM recently held a three week long promotion, which empowered listeners to vote and listen to their favorite music. The 104 voted top songs will be played on air in Delhi this Christmas weekend, while the Mumbai and Bangalore stations will follow suit with their choices over the New Year weekend. The jackpot prize entitles the winners to return couple tickets to New York with a four-day stay, courtesy Virgin Atlantic.
read moreMUMBAI: Hello FM has tied up with 'Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)' to give information about the sea conditions every day on their radio channel. The information will include the height of the wave, direction and speed of the wind, ocean current, potential fish finding zones and also gives early warnings on depression on the sea, cyclones and tsunami alerts.
read moreMUMBAI: The Bhaskar Group's My FM launched in Jodhpur on Wednesday, making it My FM's 14th station launch nationally and the fourth for the state of Rajasthan after Jaipur, Udaipur and Ajmer. The group has three more launches planned after this - in Kota, Jabalpur and Raipur, which will complete its launch plans for all 17 circles it has license to operate in, says a release.
read moreMUMBAI: Commenting on the allegations made by Ram Gopal Varma wherein he stated that he has formally terminated an MOU with Super Cassettes Industries Ltd for audio and home video rights of 14 films, Super Cassettes Industries CMD Bhushan Kumar states that RGV's allegations are completely false and baseless. He also explains that T-Series has fulfilled all the obligations as per the terms and conditions of the "Memorandum of Understanding" (dated 13 June 2006) between Ram Gopal Varma Films Pvt Ltd and Super Cassettes Industries Ltd (T-Series).
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