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MUMBAI: Shaheen Jehani, head, Events & Business Development at Music Today, the music division of the India Today Group, has put in her papers.
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MUMBAI: Radio City Pune has found the five finalists for its latest talent hunt show 'Radio City Suroon ka sartaj'. Out of 700 entries, Jasraj Joshi, Sujeet Sonam, Sonia Mundle, Komal and Anshita Shrisvastva have made it to the Top five slots.
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MUMBAI: Red FM's national head, activations and events Akash Verma has joined Big FM as its Regional Head - North II. Verma, who has over 13 years of experience across media and the FMCG sector, will be based in Delhi and will look after the entire functioning of the North II stations, which include Delhi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Bareilly, Aligarh, Agra, Udaipur, Kota, Jodhpur, Hissar, Bikaner and Ajmer. Verma was the Delhi Station Head at Red FM and was also handling their national portfolio of Activations and Events. Verma has previously worked with Times FM and Coca Cola India.
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MUMBAI: Kolkata based Friends FM has started its second season of the 'Gadi Car' initiative from 4 August to 18 August. Seven listeners will get an opportunity to win seven brand new cars. 'Saat Din e Saat Gaadi' viz 'seven days seven cars' is a high powered tune-in promotion in Kolkata whereby seven Maruti 800s will be given to seven winners. The show last year had generated nearly one million SMSs for the contest, says the station. The audience has to SMS the correct answers for the question asked on air and win a brand new car as the prize.
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MUMBAI: FM stations across the country have chalked up elaborate plans to celebrate Friendship Day over the weekend. Big FM Delhi has formed the Friendship club with RJ Sujata and RJ Ravi. The station will share various callers' memories with their friends, whereas Bangalore celebrates the Chaddu Dostu contest where gang of friends connect to their friends from any place like college, school or social sites like Orkut and Facebook. Big FM Gujrat will have shows hosted live from the ground. The RJs will involve participants into competitions like compatibility test and more activities.
read moreMUMBAI: Barista has planned a music initiative, Friendship Jam for the first time on the occasion of Friendship Day. The initiative will run in three Indian cities, from 30 July till 3 August. Barista marketing head Vishal Kapoor says, "The guitar has always been an integral part of Barista and we conceived that a guitarist and his band can perform live at Barista. We are holding the event in three cities of Mumbai for three Days, Delhi and Bangalore for five Days."
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MUMBAI: Percussionist Vivek Rajagopalan's new album 'Moving Images' was launched on Thursday night under the Blue Frog label in Mumbai. The album, which is a good mix of contemporary and classical sounds, has been inspired by electronica and draws its influence from Carnatic and Jazz music.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal UK has launched a DRM free website which would provide its users with rare and obscure music, reports The Industry Standard. Titled as Lost Tunes, the website will contain music from classic rock and pop titles, and the digital store will also features archived reggae, blues, soul and spoken word catalogues.
read moreMUMBAI: Mobile giant Nokia has set aside funds of $150 million to open offices of its venture division Nokia Growth Partners in China and India. The division launched in 2004 with $100 million, and the company says it is interested in companies involved with mobile applications, location-based services (LBS), mobile advertising and music and entertainment - a broad spectrum that covers most of the areas attracting attention in mobile technology and the mobile web.
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MUMBAI: Chennai based music label EarthSync bagged the 'Audience Award' at the Imaginaria International Film Festival and the 'Special Juror's Choice Award' at the Zanzibar International Film Festival held in July for their production, Laya Project.
read moreMUMBAI: Netherlands' public broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), has entered into partnership with Radio Misty 94.3FM, the North Bengal and Sikkim FM station that will air a variety of RNW music programmes ranging from European pop charts to classical, jazz and world music as also RNW radio books. After a long-term presence in India with short wave and satellite radio broadcasts, RNW has now begun to expand its activities in India.
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, is proud to announcread more
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: Armaan Malik, hailed as the Prince of Pop, is aiming to bridge the gap between two different music sensibilities once again with his latest...read more
MUMBAI: This is the first time that Shruti have created a multilingual track which includes the lyrics in three different languages Shruti Haasan who...read more
MUMBAI: Renowned Bollywood playback singer and composer Amit Trivedi is thrilled to announce his latest, Azaad Collab. Known for his soulful voice...read more
MUMBAI: Pop star Dhvani Bhanushali is all set to headline this year’s prestigious Mysore Dussehra, sharing the spotlight with musical legends like A....read more
