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MUMBAI: Media Transasia has launched music magazine Blender in India, marking the title's first venture outside of the US. Blender, the music magazine is targeted at the young modern urban Indians or the 'now' generation.
read moreMUMBAI: eMusic has announced the arrival of worlds' first audiobooks format. It will provide more than a thousand downloadable audiobook titles in the universally compatible MP3 format without any restrictions. The digital audiobooks market is currently the fast-growing segment of the book publishing industry. According to Piper Jaffray & Co., the worldwide market for digital audiobooks and other spoken word is expected to grow 45% in revenue from $138.6 million in 2006 to $274.4 million in 2008. Nearly 49 percent of eMusic subscribers have also expressed their interest in audiobooks.
read moreMUMBAI: Sab TV has launched a new musical reality show, Krazy Kiya Re. The show will have eight contestants selected from across the country, showcasing their singing talents in a way different from the usual talent hunts bombarding the television. The format of the contest is woven in a manner to bring an element of humor.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Gotuit, a leading provider of metadata technologies, have announced that UMG has signed a broad license agreement to Gotuit's intellectual property for personalized digital music services.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Gotuit, a leading provider of metadata technologies, have announced that UMG has signed a broad license agreement to Gotuit's intellectual property for personalized digital music services.
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MUMBAI: More and more radio stations are gearing up for singer talent hunt shows. Radio Mango is the latest to join the beeline.
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV Networks FM radio station has launched in Nagpur through its subsidiary South Asia FM.
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MUMBAI: Big FM Hyderabad has unveiled its new line of programs bringing in variations in its on-air show packages. Film Actor Alu Arjun launched the new programming chart and RJ Shekhar invited Alu to interact live with his fans and listeners. Alu as RJ Bunny kickstarted the show by playing the theme song composed and sung by the RJs of the station.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio One launches a three week contest, 'Mumbai ki awaaz' on Good Morning Mumbai and Horn ok please from May 5 to May 26.
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MUMBAI: Radio One has recently roped in Raj Gopal Iyer as its new station head-west. His last stint was with Big FM where he was heading their NTR business nationally. Talking about the new opportunity Iyer says, "Radio One has some serious plans for the metro. I would be heading the stations in West which includes Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Pune, which is supposed to start soon."
read moreMUMBAI: Online music service providers AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks must pay higher licensing fees for music broadcast over web as decided in a ruling by a US Federal court. The ruling could see them giving out around $100 million as royalties to musicians.
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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: 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: 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
