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Mumbai: EMI Virgin announced their exclusive distribution agreement with boutique music label, IndiaBeat today.
read moreMUMBAI: The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry has accepted the final recommendations by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), with some modifications. The telecom regulator had recommended a draft policy that permits a satellite radio service provider to hold the permission of satellite radio channels. Among its various recommendations submitted by Trai, the ministry has also accepted the government's proposal in the draft policy on restrictions on news and advertisements in satellite radio service.
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Hong Kong: Nokia has rolled out its music stores in 10 countries to-date. In Asia Pacific- the two markets are Australia and Singapore.
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Hong Kong: Issues of venues, ticket prices, overheads and artiste costs are some of the common problems that dog organisers of live music events across the Asia Pacific.
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Hong Kong : Music Matters, the forum for the music industry in Asia released the third annual MTV study results gauging the music listenership patterns across 12 nations. These list includes, Hongkong, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Australia, Vietnam. The last two are new additions this year.
read moreMUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has extended its contract with Grammy Award winning songwriter and performer Ben Harper. The new worldwide agreement will see the company represent both his existing catalogue of songs as well as future compositions. Harper first signed to EMI Music Publishing in August 1993. Talking about the extended contract, Ben Harper says, EMI Music Publishing have always been truly supportive of my work throughout my time with them, and Im looking forward to working with everyone there for many years to come.
read moreMUMBAI: Media regulator Ofcom has fined MTV ?255,000 for broadcasting "highly offensive language and material" pre-watershed. These included the pre-9pm broadcast on MTV Networks Europe's UK channel TMF of an Aphex Twin video featuring offensive words including "motherfucker" and a daytime trailer for a Jodie Marsh reality show featuring the phrase "fucking wanker".
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Mumbai: After testing waters in Mumbai, Fever FM is taking its promotional campaign - Fever Bolo to Delhi in a brand new avatar - Fever Money Mantra. The winners of the contest will walk away with Rs.1.04 Lakhs as the prize money. The catch is the same again, answering the phone not with a hello¦ but with the money mantra of the hour. These mantras will be announced on air.
read moreMUMBAI: 141Sercon, a brand activation agency, has announced that it has bagged the Radio City FM account. 141Sercon will be responsible to boost the brand value for the radio station through their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) programmes and campaigns. The CRM programme will focus to build relevant communication programmes for the radio station based on the on ground research conducted by 141Sercon.
read moreMUMBAI: Music label T-Series obtained an interim injunction on 30 May against Yahoo Inc. and Yahoo India from the Delhi High Court. The Court issued a notice, in the interim, restraining Yahoo from streaming T-Series owned content on their portal Yahoo Video. Delhi High Court had issued a notice to Yahoo Inc. and its Indian subsidiary Yahoo Web Services (India) Pvt. Ltd on a suit filed by Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL) owner of the "T-Series" for infringement of their copyright caused by unlicensed streaming of SCIL's copyright works on Yahoo's portal www.video.yahoo.com.
read moreMUMBAI: PluggedIn has inked a deal with Rolling Stone, the former will be adding the latter's news and video content to its popular new entertainment website. PluggedIn will create a dedicated Rolling Stone channel, which will feature daily news and video content from Rolling Stone and exclusive content from the their vaults. In addition, Rolling Stone will be able to incorporate PluggedIn's proprietary high-definition player technology into its own video initiatives on sites like MySpace.
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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: 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: 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
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
