92.7 BIG FM and Cocoraj announces BIG Kannada Entertainment Awards

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Bangalore, March 7, 2011

In a pioneering effort, multi media entity RBNL's flagship 92.7 BIG FM, Bangalore's No.1 Radio Station today announced BIG Kannada Entertainment Awards that seeks to create a unique platform which honors entertainment across genres viz., Movies, Music, Television, dance, theatre & Sports. This unique property will reach out across the state through a multi media campaign and will be premiered on the UGADI day in april on ETV Kannada offering a whole new entertainment to people around the kannada new year.

Briefing reporters, 92.7 BIG FM Radio Operations Head - South Mr. Ramesh Bhaskar, said 'When Karnataka looks for entertainment, we turn to our world of entertainers across movies, music, television, dance, theatre & sports. Its amongst these entertainers that we seek to spend our time to relax, unwind and get entertained. As Bangalore's No.1 entertainer ,92.7 BIG FM created this platform to celebrate excellence across genres in a first of its kind initiative across any media brand in the state. This is truly a people's choice award wherein the listeners get to choose the winners in the 'popular category'. We have eminent jury members drawn across from the fields of art & entertainment that stands testimony of the rigor in the selection process".

The star studded awards night which will be held at Ambedkar Bhavan tentatively around 23rd March, 2011, will see the who's who of Kannada entertainment set the stage on fire with their truly entertaining performances. This would include dance sequences by movie and television artists, and music medleys by prominent playback singers.

Raj Oil Mills Ltd CEO Manvendra Gokhale, says, "We are proud to be associated with 92.7 BIG FM yet again after the very successful BIG Kannada Television Awards in their innovative and trendsetting initiative - BIG Kannada Entertainment Awards. 92.7 BIG FM, like Raj Oil Mills has been on the forefront of quality & innovation, and we are more than happy to associate as the main sponsor for the event not just in Kannada but across 7 regional entertainment & movie awards".

Further, 92.7 BIG FM would dedicate special features across their shows with special focus on the breakfast show BIG COFFEE with Harsha & Shruti to BIG Kannada Entertainment Awards wherein each of the nominees would come on air and talk about their achievements, experiments and learnings.

92.7 BIG FM, listeners can call up the radio station wherein they will be asked to talk about their favourite nominations. The programme will also see songs tagged with nomination appeals in the person's voice aired as also vote appeal by nominated TV stars driven through capsules, he added.

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