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MUMBAI: Singer turned music director Adnan Sami has set his sights on Bollywood in 2008.
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: After Ahmedabad and Surat, RCS India has now started its monitoring services for radio in Lucknow.
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).
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BANGALORE: 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.
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MUMBAI: 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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MUMBAI: Tata Teleservices' (TTL) Virgin Mobile and youth music channel Channel [V] together shot the live Bollywood flick Andaaz Apna Very Hatke. The 20-minute flick starred Virgin Group chairman and founder Richard Branson opposite Bollywood actor Neha Dhupia. The true masala Bollywood flick was aired on Channel [V] at 9 pm just after half an hour of shoot. Andaaz Apna Very Hatke was shot with 50 cameras and a crew of 200 members. Earlier in the day, the Virgin Group, in association with TTL, has launched its youth-focused mobile service Virgin Mobile India.
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MUMBAI: One of the first players to use the digital space, Saregama India plans to re-enter the arena with a vengeance this year.
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MUMBAI : Big FM has created history of sorts in the country by becoming the first radio station to tie up with an arist to market a single composed and sung by him.
read moreMUMBAI : China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation. The Music Copyright Society of China claims that Baidu.com Inc provided "music listening, broadcasting and downloading services in various forms on its Website without approval, and through unfettered piracy, earning huge advertising revenue on its huge number of hits," says an AP report.Baidu is China's most popular search engine, with 60.1 per cent of the sector's revenues, according to Analysys International, a Beijing-based research firm.
read moreMUMBAI: NBC Universal Television's DVD, music and consumer products group in the US will release the soundtrack for the show Heroes on 18 March 2008. In India, the show airs on Star World.
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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
