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MUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has extended its contract with Grammy Award winning songwriter and performer Ben Harper. The new worldwide agreement will see the company represent both his existing catalogue of songs as well as future compositions. Harper first signed to EMI Music Publishing in August 1993. Talking about the extended contract, Ben Harper says, EMI Music Publishing have always been truly supportive of my work throughout my time with them, and Im looking forward to working with everyone there for many years to come.
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Mumbai: After testing waters in Mumbai, Fever FM is taking its promotional campaign - Fever Bolo to Delhi in a brand new avatar - Fever Money Mantra. The winners of the contest will walk away with Rs.1.04 Lakhs as the prize money. The catch is the same again, answering the phone not with a hello¦ but with the money mantra of the hour. These mantras will be announced on air.
read moreMUMBAI: 141Sercon, a brand activation agency, has announced that it has bagged the Radio City FM account. 141Sercon will be responsible to boost the brand value for the radio station through their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) programmes and campaigns. The CRM programme will focus to build relevant communication programmes for the radio station based on the on ground research conducted by 141Sercon.
read moreMUMBAI: Music label T-Series obtained an interim injunction on 30 May against Yahoo Inc. and Yahoo India from the Delhi High Court. The Court issued a notice, in the interim, restraining Yahoo from streaming T-Series owned content on their portal Yahoo Video. Delhi High Court had issued a notice to Yahoo Inc. and its Indian subsidiary Yahoo Web Services (India) Pvt. Ltd on a suit filed by Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL) owner of the "T-Series" for infringement of their copyright caused by unlicensed streaming of SCIL's copyright works on Yahoo's portal www.video.yahoo.com.
read moreMUMBAI: PluggedIn has inked a deal with Rolling Stone, the former will be adding the latter's news and video content to its popular new entertainment website. PluggedIn will create a dedicated Rolling Stone channel, which will feature daily news and video content from Rolling Stone and exclusive content from the their vaults. In addition, Rolling Stone will be able to incorporate PluggedIn's proprietary high-definition player technology into its own video initiatives on sites like MySpace.
read moreMUMBAI: 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.
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MUMBAI: Hoopr, a leader in the royalty-free music space, is proud to unveil its latest innovationread more
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