MUMBAI: 9X Media?s international music channel 9XO is airing a marathon music session called 9XO 12-O-thon.

The special program which kicked off on 20 December will go on till 1 January and will feature the top rated international artists and their music from the year 2012.

The 9XO 12-O-Thon music session will present songs from 12 categories including pop, dance, rock, Indian, collaboration, out there, quirky, debuts, legends, male, female and hip-hop, featuring international artists such as Rihanna, Bieber, Psy, Aerosmith, Goddess Gagged, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, Chris Brown and Swedish House Mafia. The channel will air a new category everyday with top 12 songs in each category.

XO 12-O-thon will culminate with a finale on 31 December with all categories played from 12 noon to 12 midnight bringing in the new year.

9XO programming head Luke Kenny said, ?2012 has been a great year for international music and we plan to celebrate the same with 9XO 12-O-thon. This first-of-its-kind marathon music session on Indian television will commemorate the best international artists and music of 2012. With 9XO 12-O-thon we will get our viewers to start their celebrations early and this will definitely resonate well with our viewers.?

A special webpage has been created on the 9XO website to promote the 9XO 12-O-thon property which offers genre wise video playlist. The featured playlist of the day has also been added to this webpage and to 9XO?s Facebook Page for the duration of the property?s airing.

Mumbai: Big CBS Spark, the youth channel from the JV between Reliance Broadcast Networks (RBNL) and CBS Corp, has bagged the television rights for a three-day musical event hosted by Lou Majaw?s as a tribute to Bob Dylan.

The event will be held in Shillong and with this move Big CBS Spark will make a debut in the north eastern region. The concert titled ?Knocked Out? and ?Loaded? will most certainly be a musical offering that will be unique and cannot be missed, the channel said.

With the exclusive television rights of the concert, the channel promises to take it to a national level and further strengthen its reach in what is known as the music hub of India.

Majaw lives Dylan?s music and hosts the concert each year on Dylan?s birthday. He pays tribute to the American singer-songwriter, musician and artist Dylan, by performing on some of his best songs. The concert will also witness some of the bands like Indus Creed performing and paying tribute to Dylan.