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MUMBAI:The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to bring audio and text mobile news services into India. BBC already provides the news on mobile service in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Talks are on with mobile service providers in India and the deals are likely to be sealed in a few weeks, sources say. While text news alert services are not a new concept for Indian mobile phone users, audio news services would be a novelty in this country.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio City 91.1FM, in a bid to woo more listeners with festivals like Makar Sankranti and Pongal on charts, is organising different events in Lucknow and Coimbatore. In Lucknow, in association with The Indian Red Cross Society, Radio City has donated woollen clothes ranging from blankets, cardigans, gloves, mufflers, socks, shawls to the slum dwellers as a part of the initiative "Bye Bye Thand"on Makar Sankranti.
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MUMBAI: Endless Love-Kitni yaad aati hai, will be Pankaj Udhas' fifth album to be launched on the T-Series label. It is an album of eight romantic songs. Divya Khosla Kumar has directed the music videos of the album. The first track from the album'Aansoo jab bhi' is about the trauma felt by two lovers who have to part because their horoscopes don't match. Their past life resurfaces when they accidentally meet each other. The video is shot with all the elements surrounding human sentiments and tells the story of the past lovers.
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MUMBAI: Creating a platform for young children to present their talent Radio Indigo has started a show 'Junior RJ' in Bangalore, hosted by one young RJ every Saturday between 10 to 11 am. Every Saturday, a selected child plays his/her favourite numbers for the city. The tiny tots after finalising their list write script and take the studio under control. For instance on 19 January, nine year old Nidhi, will host the show. The fourth standard girl will talk about her favourite artistes and music. She is going to play some heavy metal tracks, an influence of her father.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM has launched in Raipur, taking the total number of stations to 30 all over the country. Besides Raipur, Radio Mirchi is already operational in places including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Indore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Pune, Patna, Jalandhar, Goa, Bhopal, Vadodara, Kanpur, Rajkot, Varanasi, Nashik, Lucknow, Surat, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Madurai, Nagpur, Vishakapatnam, Vijayawada and Mangalore.Radio Mirchi will roll out two more radio stations by the end of the year, to complete the total number of 32 stations in India.
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MUMBAI: Star World is all set to premiere yet another season of the hit reality show American Idol every Wednesday at 8 pm starting 16 January. Once again, Ryan Seacrest will host the show, and Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson will judge the wannabe warblers, deluded divas and off-key performers to find the next singing superstar.
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MUMBAI: Heavy metal band Iron Maiden begins its 2008 world tour 'Somewhere Back In Time Tour' in Mumbai, on 1 February 2008. It is the band's first stop in India, with Bruce Dickenson flying their specially designed chartered flight. Iron Maiden will revisit their history as the tour harks back to their glory years of the eighties and will focus almost exclusively on the four albums that the band released from that era 1983 - 1988 namely, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.
read moreMUMBAI: Hello FM, a brand of Malar Publications Ltd, is ready to operate FM station from Tiruchirappalli, from 14 January 2008. With this launch Hello FM will become the largest broadcaster of FM stations in the state of Tamil Nadu. With this launch Rajeev Nambiar, Chief Operating Officer, Hello FM said, "We are very excited, completely geared and are eagerly looking forward to entertaining Trichy with the best of our programs.
read moreMumbai: South Asia Multimedia Technologies (SAMTL) has picked up a 6.98 per cent stake in South Asia FM Ltd (SAFL), a subsidiary of Sun TV. Sun TV Network continues to hold 64.12 per cent stake in SAFL, it says.
read moreMumbai: The first of the clutch of film awards this year is out, and the music honours have staked their claim in the spotlight. The results of Nokia Star Screen Awards, out recently, have picked out the best of the lot, some of these reserved for that gem of 2007, Taare Zameen Par, which bagged six categories in all.
read moreNEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today announced a further postponement in Phase II of bidding for FM licenses. This follows the Delhi High Court's dismissal of a review petion filed by the ministry against an earlier court order allowing Radio Today to bid if it fulfilled certain conditions. Following court's dismissal of the petition, the ministry was forced to postpone the bidding due to several complications, and this has triggered widespread confusion amongst industry leaders.
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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: Swastik announces the expansion of its digital leadership team with the appointment of Jiread more
