|  11 Oct 2008

Fever launches first television commercial

NEW DELHI: Fever 104 FM, a collaboration of HT Media and Virgin Radio has launched its first ever television commercial, based on the theme, �It's all about the music'. The TVC went on air on all general entertainment channels and music channels like MTV and Channel V from Friday night.

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 |  10 Oct 2008

Big Music enters mainstream Gujarati films with Dholi Taro...

MUMBAI: Big Music and Big Pictures have launched the music of Gujarati film, �Dholi Taaro Dhol Waage', marking Big's entry into mainstream Gujarati films.

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 |  10 Oct 2008

Adnan Sami readies for UK tour

MUMBAI: Musician - singer Adnan Sami will be doing a series of concerts in the UK after a gap of three years in a tour organized by Vijay Bhola, Ashok Gadher and Jujar Singh of Safenote Ltd. The composer singer is scheduled to perform in London with his team of musicians at the Wembley Arena on 18 and 19 October, Nottingham Arena on 11 October and at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow on 14 October.

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 |  10 Oct 2008

Ratan Jain elected president of AMPTPP

MUMBAI: Venus Records' director Ratan Jain has been elected president of the Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP) in an election held last week. At the meet, Ramesh Taurani and Mukesh Bhatt were elected Vice Presidents while Vashu Bhagnani and Manish Goswami have been elected Treasurers for the year ahead. Gordhan Tanwani and Ashutosh Gowariker have been elected as General Secretaries of AMPTPP.

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 |  10 Oct 2008

Kabul to host international music festival

MUMBAI: Afghan capital Kabul will host its first ever four-day International Kabul music festival in the city next week, say reports. It will be the first such festival in the central Asian country. Director of music department of Ministry of Information and culture AbdulEtemadi has been quoted as saying that the four day music eventwould be held in the French Cultural Center, Qala-e-Nuh Burj, Feroz-Kohfoundation and Kabul Istiqlal High School auditorium.

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 |  08 Oct 2008

Gibb tells EC to back off on music rights

BERLIN: Trust Robin Gibb to shoot straight from the hip. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Popkomm 2008, the fromer BeeGees lead singer writer said he had no idea about IPR when he used to produce music. "My brothers and I never thought of money and IPR and rights when we wrote and created music. We did it because we loved it."

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 |  08 Oct 2008

Berlin loves music

BERLIN: "Even if the music business is not doing well on a national scale in Germany, the country's capital - Berlin is doing very well thank you," the mayor of Berlin Harald Wolf said at the opening ceremony of Popkomm.

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 |  08 Oct 2008

Dandiya event organisers cough up music royalties

MUMBAI: Dandiya event organisers in Mumbai, including the Falguni Pathak starrer Sankalp and a few others who have been abstaining from paying music licence fee have given in for the licensing bodies' demand of paying royalties  Most of the organisers have bought the licenses from Yashraj, Big Music and labels under the Indian Music Industry (IMI) wing.

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 |  08 Oct 2008

Popkomm Festival 2008 begins in Berlin

BERLIN – Visionaries, analysts, managers, artists, critics, lawyers, researchers, journalists have converged here for the Popkomm music festival, the international forum for the music and entertainment industries, that begins on Wednesday.

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 |  07 Oct 2008

IMI holds IPR workshop for Maharashtra cops

MUMBAI: The Indian Music Industry (IMI) organised a training programme for police officers of Maharashtra to raise awareness about Intellectual Property Rights and the importance of its protection on Tuesday. The programme was attended by over 100 police officers, representatives from 90 police stations in Mumbai suburbs stations, 30 crime branch officials, 30 social service branch officials, and some top rank police officers, including joint commissioner of Police, DCPs etc.

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 |  07 Oct 2008

Hello FM bags three Tamizh Awards at Ad Club event

MUMBAI: Tamil radio station Hello FM bags three awards at the first ever Tamizh awards held by the Ad club of Madras in association with the Daily Thanthi group.

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