MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1FM, India‘s first and leading FM brand, brings in the monsoon flavour to our homes with ?Kanda Bhajji Party?, a 4 week long monsoon celebration. Every week, Radio City RJ?s will visit lucky few listener homes and have a t?te-?-t?te over Mumbai?s mouth-watering monsoon special dish, ?Kanda Bhajji?.

RJ Ada invites listeners to participate in a fun on-air contest ?Kanda Bhajji party at your home?, where the listeners need to either call on 022- 66969191 or SMS City space <ANSWER> to 57007 giving a reason as to why the RJs should visit their place for the party. The best reasons would be shortlisted and one winner every week gets a chance to get up close and personal with their favourite RJs Ada, Mamta and Gaurav for the whatte fun monsoon party at their very homes. A Radio City wagon will visit the winner?s society premises and there will be naach gaana over dhol baajaa proclaiming their entry and announcing about the party to one and all. After which, RJs will visit the winner?s homes and treat them and their family with garma garam Kanda Bhajji over recording of a chat session where the listener will be taken on air.

So Mumbaikars tune into Radio City 91.1FM for the Kanda Bhajji Party, you never know you might be the next host!!!

A sustained focus on understanding listeners and leveraging the synergies of music expertise and innovative programming, allows Radio City to deliver a unique listening experience and be an integral part of the lives of listeners. Aggressively looking at spreading the Radio City experience across the country, Radio City 91.1FM is committed to growing the market and creating superlative content for premium audiences.

MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced the appointment of Amit Baruah, a leading Indian print journalist, as the Head of BBC Hindi. Amit will be based in New Delhi and will be responsible for BBC Hindi service?s multimedia output. He also will be BBC World Service?s lead Editor for India.

Amit Baruah, who has been working as the Foreign Editor of India?s national daily, Hindustan Times, brings to the BBC 23 years? experience in international reporting. A foreign correspondent for nearly a decade, Amit has reported from Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South-East Asia.

He has travelled and reported extensively from the troubled areas of Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab, filing from there for India?s national daily, The Hindu, and its weekly magazine, Frontline. Amit is the author of Dateline Islamabad, a unique take on living and reporting from Pakistan, with a close look at the country?s contemporary history.

Amit has interviewed international political leaders including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse. He was presented with the Prem Bhatia Award in 2000 for his coverage of Pakistan.

Behrouz Afagh, Head of Asia Pacific Region, BBC World Service, says: ?Amit joins BBC Hindi at a time of big changes with fresh ideas and energy, and will play a key role in shaping the future of the BBC in India.?

MUMBAI: The recent TAM scorecard has indicated that Zee News? Kahiye Janab has taken lead in the discussion shows leaving the so called competitors like Seedhi Baat and Aap ki Adaalat far behind.

Embarking on its journey of offering authentic content driven news in a varied programming style, Zee News has again struck gold. In the recently declared TAM results for week 27, Kahiye Janab has emerged as the favourite programme in the chat show genre in just 40 episodes.

Expressing his opinion on the recent success, Barun Das, CEO, Zee News Ltd. said, ?Chat shows are an integral part of news channel programming. They not only provide viewers an understanding of real famous personalities but analytical questioning by the anchor provides them an opportunity to understand person?s viewpoint on various subjects. We are happy that the show has received an overwhelming response in a short span of time. I would like to thank the viewers and advertisers for their love and support in making Kahiye Janab a big success.?

Hosted by Senior Journalist, Swati Chaturvedi, the show Kahiye Janab (aired every Saturday at 07:30 PM) provides an opportunity to the viewers to discover the real person behind the personality. Ranging from interviews of personalities such as Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Abhinav Bindra, Brajesh Mishra, Shashi Tharoor, Arun Jaitly, Baba Ramdev and the likes; the show invites guest on the hot seat from all walks of life.

MUMBAI: Dishtv - India?s No. 1 direct-to-home company and part of the biggest media conglomerate ? Zee Group pays tribute to one of the biggest pop icons in modern history ?Michael Jackson?,

by broadcasting one of his most memorable concerts ?Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour? ? from Sony Music for a period of 4 weeks on its movie on demand service.

Speaking on the occasion, Salil Kapoor, COO, Dishtv commented, ?Dishtv honors Michael Jackson‘s life and legacy by showing programming devoted to the memory of the legendary superstar. Michael Jackson was a performer, an innovator and a genius in his field. The Live In Bucharest concert is specially priced at Rs. 25 versus the usual Rs 50 ? 75 band for millions of Michael Jackson fans. A generation of followers have tapped their feet and sung along to his smash hits. But more importantly, his contributions to the world of music can never be replaced, replicated or forgotten. Michael Jackson has impacted the world of music and pop culture in a way like no one else has.?

?Live in Bucharest? is the first leg of Jackson?s Dangerous World Tour, which took place on October 1, 1992, at the Bucharest National Stadium. Hailed as one of the biggest and memorable concerts, the concert had a sold-out attendance of 170,000. Later, in 2005, a DVD of the concert was brought out, of which 950,000 copies were sold worldwide.

Dishtv will broadcast some of Jackson?s exclusive footage from the Bucharest Concert, which would also have the ?We Are The World?, a song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

Dishtv subscribers can order the concert through IVR/Phone, SMS, or by logging onto www.dishtv.in which authorizes them to view the concert - multiple times, at a time of their convenience within 24 hours.

MUMBAI: Picture this: It is one of those days when you take your father for his routine health checkup and you realize that the doctors on board have staged a strike demanding a salary hike. You see the plight of the patients yet are empathetic towards the doctors. You take a video clip of the scene on your mobile and send it to the UTVi news desk. As the clip is aired, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done your duty as a citizen, and probably have saved lives in the process.

UTVi, the business news channel from the UTV group now empowers every citizens of this country - enabling them to express their views, opinions, praise as well as general angst. Aiming at the average business news viewer, UTVi extends its initiative to anyone who owns a mobile phone.

UTVi now brings an actively moderated TV to Mobile chat which will take Citizen Journalism to a new high. Now, viewers can shoot MMS and pictures and send them directly to the UTVi news desk. The business news channel, has also activated a TV-Mobile moderated chat and has now set-up a ?demo? moderated chat id.

So if you?ve had a rough time with government officials to get your company registered, or spotted an innovative business idea on the roads. If you?ve just noticed a new campaign and wish to have a view or want to ?speak up? on the latest business development. If you?re not happy with the Union Budget or you have insights into a breaking story?look no further. Pick up the mobile and connect with UTVi.

Mr. Sumit Gupta, COO, UTVi explaining the new initiative says ?We are trying to make it easier for citizens to express and share their views with us. With this new feature, there is no need to have access to a computer. It is as easy and convenient as it is instantaneous ? especially for breaking News and clips. Anyone with a phone can share content that makes a difference to their lives with us. We, at UTVi, are keeping our continued promise to reach out to our viewers and make it easy for them to reach out to us.?

Another path breaking initiative by UTVi has been their association with nautanki.tv. The live budget streaming of UTVi on this portal has earned them a stunning 1.2 million views, 4,400 peak streams per seconds, 500+ bogs with embeds and an interesting 18 minute per user viewing. The top blog which contributed to the traffic include financialexpress.com, indiabuzz.ne8.in and thoughtsofanordinaryman.com.