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A consortium led by Times Internet Ltd, part of the Times of India Group, has won for Rs 2.62 billion the IPL's global Radio, mobile and Internet rights, along with television rights in certain territories. The four-year rights run through 2014, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary N Srinivasan said.
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MUMBAI: With a record 13 international broadcasters covering the show live on site in Los Angeles, and nine prominently placed on the red carpet, Alfred Haber, President of Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI) announced on Monday that the company scored record sales with the recent airings in 193 territories of the 53rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards extravaganza that continues to be the world?s most popular televised music event.
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Asked for his views on the findings of Q4 of the IRS results on Radio, Harrish M Bhatia, the tenacious CEO of the 17-station MY FM network, certainly doesn't mince his words. Rubbishing the IRS results' finding that Radio has de-grown, he wonders how any media planner can take big buy decisions on the basis of a stagnant report that reports a sheer sample size of 9 for a city like Raipur.
read more* A fair decision, says Vijay Lazarus, President IMI MUMBAI: A Division Bench of Supreme Court comprising of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph, Friday awarded a stay in favour of Phonographic Performance Ltd. against the order of the Copyright Board concerning royalties to be paid for broadcasting music by Radio operators, lawetalnews.com has reported.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM has planned several Holi initiatives in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Lucknow.
read moreMUMBAI: 94.3 MY FM was conferred an award at The Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2010-2011. The Laadli Media Awards acknowledges and celebrates the efforts by various media houses providing gender-just perspectives, portrayals and analyses. These awards have been set up by the NGO Population First, and are supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) The Laadli Media Award was conferred on MY FM in Delhi on Monday.
read more* Adam Shaw to anchor series exploring the future of business MUMBAI: BBC World News will air Horizon, a series of 30-minute programmes, from late Spring 2011 BBC World News and BBC.com will showcase the multi-platform series exploring the business world of the future. Adam Shaw, familiar in the UK to listeners of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and viewers of Panorama on BBC television, will anchor the series.
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MUMBAI: Justin Bieber fans can look forward to some prime entertainment focusing on the iconic young superstar. Justin Bieber will feature on The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS Prime from BIG CBS Networks, from 21st to 24th March. The series will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from his concerts and rare footage of stories from series like Entertainment Tonight and The Insider.
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MUMBAI: The Black Eyed Peas, six-time Grammy winners, will perform a medley of their hits at Nickelodeon's 2011 Kids' Choice Awards, premiering on Saturday, 2nd April, at USC Galen Center, Los Angeles. Nickelodeon's artist Big Time Rush will also perform their newest hit, Boyfriend, live at this year's show.
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Hit FM COO Sanjay Hemady is incredulous at IRS's reports saying Radio has been degrowing, and unhappy that yardsticks of measuring readership are being used to measure something as dynamic as radio listenership that can change day by day and minute by minute.
read moreNEW DELHI: In a meeting on Wednesday, the Prasar Bharati Board decided to recommend to the Group of Ministers that the Government should meet 100% of the expenses on salaries and allowances of the employees and 50% of operating expenses of Prasar Bharati, while the pubcaster will meet the balance 50 per cent of the operating expenses. It was also decided that the public service broadcaster will meet 100% of the expenses for programming related work The existing provision requires Prasar Bharati to generate at least 50% of its operating expenses as commercial revenue.
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Gen Z and millennials from six metro cities highlight the most relevant moments when music...read more
MUMBAI: FreshTunes is an artist services platform that has encouraged a community many music comread more
MUMBAI: Hoopr Smash, a first-of-its-kind, automated, self-serve, music licensing marketplace annread more
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: After Aahat, Sony Entertainment Television brings Aami Dakini. Aami Dakini promises to keep viewers hooked from start to finish. Set against...read more
The song is part of Hyundai Spotlight Season 3 - a platform by Hyundai Motor India Limited and Universal Music India for Brands read more
MUMBAI: Sunburn Festival, Asia’s leading electronic dance music (EDM) festival, has made a monumental leap into the global Top 10 by securing the #8...read more
MUMBAI: Pop singer and composer Shivangi Sharma, best known for hits like “India Ka IPL” and “Party Party” with DJ Bravo, “Same Old Lies,” “Ishq Dawa...read more
