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MUMBAI: With excitement building up for the Clef Music awards, Radioandmusic have announced their early bird deadline.
read moreMUMBAI: Traditionally, advertisers tend to spend more during the festive season (October-December quarter) and Radio always remains essential part of an advertiser's media plan. Many brands pump in money on new festive promotions during this period and look at the radio medium because of its reach and fastest 'go-to-market' ability that makes it the most cost-effective medium. On an average the radio industry is expecting a jump of 20-30 per cent in the ad revenue during this festive season.
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MUMBAI: Composer Loy Mendonsa of the famous musician trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy has collaborated with the Bangalore-based folk rock band �Swarathma' for their second album. Mendonsa assisted the band throughout the 11 tracks of the album, which are based on several themes from corrupt politicians to media-led mind control. The composer has also helped the band in translating the live performance element into their recordings.
read moreMUMBAI: Big FM has partnered with reality show �Bigg Boss Season 5' for the fourth consecutive year. The partnership allows Big FM to showcase gossip, trivia, interviews, eliminated contestants bytes and more.
read moreMUMBAI: Arts and Culture institution, National Center of Performing Arts (NCPA) will present its first international jazz festival �Jazzmatazz 2011' from 14-16 October at Tata Theater, Mumbai. The three-day festival will bring together renowned jazz musicians from different parts of the world, including artistes like Jon Faddis, Steve Turre, The Beets Brothers, The Three Ladies of the Blues, Carlton Kitto Jazz Ensemble, Cedar Walton Trio, Harsha Makalande & Khrome and Louis Hayes (Cannonball Legacy). Friday, 14th Carlton Kitto's Jazz Ensemble
read moreMUMBAI: VH1's Emmy Award winning �Rock Docs' franchise is set to release its feature-length music documentaries from 7 November till late 2012. The series tell stories of artistes and music from a wide range of genres, styles and musical perspectives.
read moreMUMBAI: Italian �DJ Valerio Alessandro Sizzi' has won the �Nokia Tune contest', a search for the company's next modern ringtone. Sizzi, a 22-year-old Italian audio design graduate with his tune 'dub-step' reimagining of Tarrega's Grande Valse, has won $10,000 cash prize. Amid over 6,200 other entries, Sizzi's version pulled 1,000 Facebook marking his place in Nokia's mobile history book. Sizzi's 24-second version of the iconic Nokia ringtone, will be preloaded on more than 100 million handsets as to be shipped all over the world.
read moreMUMBAI: Removal of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions can decrease piracy, according to a new research from Rice and Duke University. Marketing professors Dinah Vernik of Rice and Devavrat Purohit and Preyas Desai of Duke used analytical modeling to examine how piracy is influenced by the presence or absence of DRM restrictions. They found that while these restrictions make piracy more costly and difficult, the restrictions also have a negative impact on legal users who have no intention of doing anything illegal.
read moreNEW DELHI: An ordinance is expected to be promulgated shortly to make changes in the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act 1990 following the recommendations of a Group of Ministers which examined various issues relating to the pubcaster. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has done a comprehensive review of the provisions of the Prasar Bharati Act and has recommended certain amendments to the Act, which have been approved by the Law Ministry.
read moreNEW DELHI: Arvind Kumar, Joint Secretary (Broadcasting) in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has been asked to stay on �until further orders'. Earlier, he had been asked to take over as the chief vigilance officer in the National Buildings Construction Corporation from 1 October. Arvind Kumar, an Indian Administrative Service officer from Uttar Pradesh from the 1988 batch, had been elevated from the post of director in August last year. He succeeded the slot vacated by Zohra Chatterji.
read moreMUMBAI: My FM has bagged two awards at the International Asian Leadership Awards ceremony held in Dubai. The station was felicitated with the 'Best CSR Practice overall' award for its social initiative �Koshish Dil Se' and Harrish M Bhatia was conferred with �Excellence in Business Leadership Award' for his outstanding achievement and visionary leadership.
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MUMBAI: Indian rock sensation Menwhopause performed at 'Rocktober Riffs' - the curtainraiser for 1st Guwahati International Music Festival held on 8 October at Shilpgram. The fest was inaugurated by Government of Assam, Cultural Affairs, Youth Welfare and Sports Department Secretary Santanu Thakur. The show also included performance of Nagaland's first rock band 'Original Fire Factor' (OFF) and Guwhati-based classic rock bands 'Project Patkai' and 'Stags'.
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MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: Ahead of the unveiling of the multi-city Paagal World Tour, rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter Badshah continues to break records with...read more
MUMBAI: SEVENTEEN’s JEONGHAN and WONWOO are coming together to release their first-ever single album THIS MAN, slated to debut on June 17 at 6 PM...read more
MUMBAI: On Sunday, May 19 superstar German trio, Keinemusik, took centre stage at Pacha Ibiza playing a seven hour, open to close set at their sold...read more
MUMBAI: With excitement building up for the Clef Music awards, Radioandmusic have announced their early bird deadline. Music artists, industry...read more
