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Radio One MD Vineet Singh Hukmani certainly doesn't mince his words and uses a razor-sharp thumbnail to paint a sketch that is as telling as it is brief, of the IRS Q4 findings and includes: how his own network has fared, why the city-based networks are growing stronger than the national brands, why the research agencies need to get their act together or miss the bus, and more. In his own words:
read more* Our last 3 wks' cumes up to 10%: Business Head S Keerthivasan NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM seems to be pulling out all the stops in Kolkata with its promotions of Sourav Ganguly's ICC Cricket World Cup-centred audio blog Ki Bolchchen Dada in the cricket- and Dada-crazy city. (Click here for slide show of outdoor campaign)
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MUMBAI: Indie rock band Pentagram announced it will release its fourth studio album, Bloodywood, with a 5-metro tour across Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. The gigs will be held at Hard Rock Caf?© in each city. Fronted by Vishal Dadlani, this 14-track album is produced by prolific guitarist Randolph Correia and also features long-time drummer Shiraz Bhattacharya along with bassist Papal Mane.
read moreMUMBAI: The PTC Punjabi Music Awards will be held in Jalandhar on the 18th of March To be anchored by Manish Paul, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Upsasana Singh and standup artiste Rajeev Thakur, the awards will see Isha Koppikar, Hard Kaur, Jazzy B, Manmohan Waris, Kamal Heer, Satinder Sartaj and Miss Pooja performing.
read moreMUMBAI: UTV and Airtel will extend the Talk2Me service to regional markets like Kochi and Chandigarh, with Satinder Sartaaj, singer, composer and lyricist from Punjab, and Jagadish Kumar, a Malayalam film star. Talk2Me service is a celebrity chat platform where thousands of fans can get connected with their favorite celebrities and chat with them live on voice chat. These stars will chat on their upcoming ventures, their passion, and their likes and dislikes.
read moreMUMBAI: For the third year on the trot, Hello FM has bagged an exclusive radio partnership with Chennai Super Kings for the forthcoming IPL season. All the seven stations of Hello FM 106.4 will air soundbytes from Chennai Super Kings players, and will cheer for Chennai Super Kings, who won the championship in the third edition of IPL. Rajeev Nambair, CEO & President, Hello FM, said, Hello FM is proud to be the Champion's Choice, and with this official tie-up, we at Hello FM are all set to give our advertisers and listeners a value-based association....
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*Andhra Pradesh's first-ever people's choice movie awards MUMBAI: After organizing BIG Ugadi Music Awards and BIG Telugu Television Awards last year, 92.7 BIG FM, in association withRaj Oil Mills, announced the BIG Telugu Movie Awards on Tuesday, 15th March 2011, at BIG Cinemas, Hyderabad. The award function to be held at Shilpkala Vedika on Friday, 25 March, will see the bigwigs of the Telugu film Industry in attendance, with performances and acts by various artists.
read moreMUMBAI: Global player in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, IODA has launched IODA Open API, the industry's first authoritative metadata and content API. Designed to increase exposure and revenue opportunities for content owners while enabling partners to monetize artist content more effectively, IODA Open API makes authoritative metadata, buy links and media assets available to partners and third party developers. The announcement was made on Tuesday, 15th March, 2011, at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
read moreNEW DELHI: Even as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry today denied that internal professions are denied regular appointment to the post of Director-General in Doordarshan and All India Radio, a look at the past twenty years or so shows that almost all the heads of DD or AIR were people who belonged either to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Information Service.
read moreMUMBAI: Fox History and Entertainment has announced the return of History Rocks with its fifth season, which is dedicated to the Woodstock Generation to music and peace. Premiering on the channel on 2 April, this 12-part series allows music lovers a peek into the lives of rock legends of this generation and their biggest concerts. This time the series offers the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
read moreMUMBAI: MY FM recently organised a cricket match for over a thousand inmates of Raipur Central Jail. 1,027 prisoners participated in a cricket match against the MY FM team captained by Rajesh Chauhan, an international sports star from Raipur. Around 800 spectators came forward to cheer their favorite team. The enthusiastic prisoners won the match, and as a reward, the Jail Superintendant and DG of Raipur jail granted pardon of imprisonment of seven days to all 1,027 prisoners.
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MUMBAI: A massive internet outage on Thursday disrupted multiple major platforms—including Googleread more
MUMBAI: Global technology brand OnePlus, today announced the launch date of their upcoming audio read more
MUMBAI: Since 1945, the name Sennheiser has stood for pioneering audio technology and passionateread more
India’s First Stand-Up Comedy Radio Property. Every Day, Every Hour. read more
MUMBAI: Zee Music Company, one of India’s top music labels, has crossed a historic milestone—surpread more
MUMBAI: Global Japanese brand Kikkoman has introduced its signature soy sauce to India’s food tapestry by distributing it to more than 1.5 million...read more
