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MUMBAI: Breakout artist grentperez returns with new summer single and music video, “Room For You” feat. Lyn Lapid.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM has launched in Raipur, taking the total number of stations to 30 all over the country. Besides Raipur, Radio Mirchi is already operational in places including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Indore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Pune, Patna, Jalandhar, Goa, Bhopal, Vadodara, Kanpur, Rajkot, Varanasi, Nashik, Lucknow, Surat, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Madurai, Nagpur, Vishakapatnam, Vijayawada and Mangalore.Radio Mirchi will roll out two more radio stations by the end of the year, to complete the total number of 32 stations in India.
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MUMBAI: Star World is all set to premiere yet another season of the hit reality show American Idol every Wednesday at 8 pm starting 16 January. Once again, Ryan Seacrest will host the show, and Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson will judge the wannabe warblers, deluded divas and off-key performers to find the next singing superstar.
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MUMBAI: Heavy metal band Iron Maiden begins its 2008 world tour 'Somewhere Back In Time Tour' in Mumbai, on 1 February 2008. It is the band's first stop in India, with Bruce Dickenson flying their specially designed chartered flight. Iron Maiden will revisit their history as the tour harks back to their glory years of the eighties and will focus almost exclusively on the four albums that the band released from that era 1983 - 1988 namely, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.
read moreMUMBAI: Hello FM, a brand of Malar Publications Ltd, is ready to operate FM station from Tiruchirappalli, from 14 January 2008. With this launch Hello FM will become the largest broadcaster of FM stations in the state of Tamil Nadu. With this launch Rajeev Nambiar, Chief Operating Officer, Hello FM said, "We are very excited, completely geared and are eagerly looking forward to entertaining Trichy with the best of our programs.
read moreMumbai: South Asia Multimedia Technologies (SAMTL) has picked up a 6.98 per cent stake in South Asia FM Ltd (SAFL), a subsidiary of Sun TV. Sun TV Network continues to hold 64.12 per cent stake in SAFL, it says.
read moreMumbai: The first of the clutch of film awards this year is out, and the music honours have staked their claim in the spotlight. The results of Nokia Star Screen Awards, out recently, have picked out the best of the lot, some of these reserved for that gem of 2007, Taare Zameen Par, which bagged six categories in all.
read moreNEW DELHI: The information and broadcasting ministry today announced a further postponement in Phase II of bidding for FM licenses. This follows the Delhi High Court's dismissal of a review petion filed by the ministry against an earlier court order allowing Radio Today to bid if it fulfilled certain conditions. Following court's dismissal of the petition, the ministry was forced to postpone the bidding due to several complications, and this has triggered widespread confusion amongst industry leaders.
read moreMUMBAI: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), that provides content to a clutch of private FM stations in India, is launching two new radio programmes, BBC- Take One and BBC Fun n Games this week. According to BBC's India Development Manager Vineeta Dwivedi, both shows are cast in the 'radio magazine' format, the first such in the country. Both shows will be made available to FM stations subscribing to its current content, according to the BBC.
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MUMBAI: 12 January is going to be D day for the final clash between the two final jodis of Sahara One's Jjhoom India.
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MUMBAI: The Kolkata radio station Friends 91.9 FM plans to give the people of Kolkata an opportunity to host their own show from the comfort of their homes. The show, titled 'Bari Theke Bolchi', goes on air from 14 January and will be aired from 10 pm to 11 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The methodology is simple – call into a dedicated phone number, leave a 45 second message about yourself, and the station selects one person per day from those, and all he/she has to do is to host a one hour show sitting at home.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi, in association with Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL), has undertaken an initiative to light up homes with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), in Bangalore. With this initiative, Mirchi plans to create awareness among people to use CFLs that conserve energy as opposed to incandescent bulbs.
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MUMBAI: In a heartfelt tribute to the valiant soldiers of India, BIG FM, one of the leading radioread more
MUMBAI: Building upon its Zara Hatke proposition, Q TV, QYOU Media India’s, Hindi General Entertread more
MUMBAI: Tips Industries Limited (Tips Music), a leading Indian music label which creates and monread more
MUMBAI: Ultra Music, a division of Ultra Media & Entertainment Private Ltd has launched two nread more
MUMBAI: Today, AI is not just a mere buzzword; its assuming a central role and reshaping the futuread more
MUMBAI: Jakarta-born, LA-based singer-songwriter and producer NIKI ushers in her lover girl era with new single “Tsunami.” The track marks the third...read more
MUMBAI: Purified family members Paradoks and Jono Stephenson join forces for their outstanding debut collaboration, Pulling Me To You – out now on...read more
MUMBAI: Artiste First is thrilled to announce a monumental milestone in their musical journey: "Ishq" has surpassed 100 million streams, 150 million...read more
MUMBAI: Since she was 17-years-old, mxmtoon has made exquisitely catchy pop songs that capture the kind of complex and tender feelings we often keep...read more
MUMBAI: Indonesian-Canadian musical artist and producer Jordan Astra has just released his latest track, "After Midnight." Listen here: https://ffm....read more
