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NEW DELHI: With an eye to streamlining licensing for the use of music and music videos in Southeast Asia and India, Universal Music Publishing Group have entered into an agreement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The agreement also includes digital royalties.
read moreMUMBAI: BBC Worldwide's audio and music business, under a new five-year strategy developed to drive the exploitation of popular music and capitalise on the corporation's rich archive, has strengthened its team with several senior appointments. Jon Mansfield who was Emap Music MD has been appointed BBC Worldwide's audio and music business head of content development.Mansfield will be joined by Stephen Davies who comes on board as head of digital ventures and Salim Mukaddam, who has been promoted to head commercial affairs.
read moreMUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that Asian Network will launch its biggest marketing campaign next week across television, radio and online. The New Sound Of Asian Britain campaign launches on 4 February 2008 and profiles the network's passion for the best in Asian music and culture.The BBC TV trail creates a new musical soundtrack, composed specially from many shorter musical scenes layered and looped together. It mixes modern influences like drummers and DJs with more traditional Asian sounds and instruments including Bollywood singing.
read moreMUMBAI: Bhaskar Group's My FM has launched in Kota, taking its tally to 16 FM stations across the country. My FM is already operational in places that include Jaipur, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ahmedabad and Bhopal.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi will launch a new Sunday show, 'Business Guru' on 3 February. Business Guru is an interview based show where a successful entrepreneur will be the guest speaker and listeners will be given a chance to interact with him. The show will feature real life heroes who have proved their mettle and created success stories through their trials and tribulations in the journey from a humble beginning to making it big. The show will be hosted by RJ Prackriti.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi has called for entries for the fifth edition of the ?‹?“Mirchi Kaan Awards, from the creative fraternity and advertising agencies. The last date for entries is 22 February 2008. All radio spots aired between 1 January 2007 and 31 January 2008 are eligible for entry. The Kaan Awards honour excellence in radio advertising in India.
read moreMUMBAI: Big 92.7 FM has launched its station in Thiruvananthapuram, taking the total number of stations to 44 across India.
read moreMUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has teamed up with Bangladesh's news website bdnews24.com so that its users can listen to BBC World Service radio.
read moreMUMBAI: Geodesic Information Systems Ltd has signed an agreement with ioWorld Media's radioio.com, an Internet radio services, to offer access to radioio Internet radio stations on its award-winning Mundu Radio - http://radio.mundu.com/.
read moreMUMBAI: Working on the regional music industry front, Sony BMG entered into the growing music market in Tamil Nadu by acquring the music rights of the Tamil film Dhasavadhaaram. The film is produced and distributed by V. Ravichandran.
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MUMBAI: Radio City has launched a nationwide hunt RC Live for India's best Hindi band. RC Live is a month-long national talent hunt to identify and create a truly world class Hindi band.
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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
