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A Platform for Indie Musicians, Songdew takes a leap as 24 hours music channel

Press Release

Songdew

New Delhi, April 18, 2018

Songdew.com that runs the largest music network in India and used by more than 25K artists and bands to promote their music both in audio and video format, has taken a new journey as a 24 hrs music channel, Songdew TV. Songdew TV is a first-of-its-kind platform for artists to collaborate, create, publish, promote and distribute their music. The channel is for the young and young at heart music lovers who can enjoy numerous private albums that are not available in the mainstream media. Songdew is India's largest and the fastest growing network of artists and listeners.

Videocon d2h, India’s fastest growing DTH player has partnered exclusively with Songdew for a 24 hour active service providing the biggest TV platform to Indie music to over 19 million households across India. The channel will show the best of independent music, live acts from across the country.

The programming line-up of Songdew includes not only music videos created by indie artists but also very interesting programming formats including; Meet The Music, Track Tales, Songdew Unplugged, World Street Music etc. These programmes feature some of the very talented musicians and bands including Indian Ocean, Astitva, The Yellow Bucked, Sifar, Sparsh, Daira, Shadow and Light, Harpreet Singh and Shubhangi Joshi.

Commenting on the partnership, Sunil Khanna, Founder - Songdew mentioned that “More than 28000+ talented musicians and bands creating some outstanding music, lack a platform to present their creation to music lovers in India. Songdew TV is a giant step in that direction and we are delighted to partner with Videocon d2h as our first DTH platform”.

Saurabh Dhoot, Executive Chairman - Videocon d2h said, “Music connects people. With this insight, we launched Songdew TV on Videocon d2h. Besides offering fresh music to the young viewers it is also our way of promoting new musical talent across the country.”

“The trend among youth these days is to explore long tail music beyond film songs. Emergence of music festivals, Live Events and success of online music platform are testimonial to this. Hand picked music content on Song dew TV will provide an incredible experience to subscribers of Videocon d2h” said Sandip Tarkas, Director - Songdew.

Videocon d2h takes pride in presenting its subscribers with a robust line-up of more than 650+ channels and services, including a host of regional channels. It offers a wide range of active services like Smart English, Smart Games. The other active services include d2h Hollywood HD, d2h music, d2h spice, d2h cinema in both Standard Definition and HD, etc. The channel will be available on channel number 278.

For further information, please contact:

Shailesh Nevatia

M: + 91 9716549754

Email - contactshailesh.pr@gmail.com

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