The second annual Dave Bookman tribute concert is coming up
Dave Bookman was a Toronto radio legend, a guy who did more for indie music than anyone else I’ve ever known. His sudden death in 2019 (it was a brain aneurysm) has left
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Prime Video has a new doc on a Winnipeg broadcaster turned bank robber
If you’re from Winnipeg, you may remember Steve Vogelsang, a sportscaster seen on the local CTV affiliate. If you took broadcasting at Red River Community College, he may have been one of your
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Not to worry you, but Russia’s “doomsday” radio station UVB076 just sent out four strange messages after four years of silence
If you have access to a shortwave radio, you can hear all kinds of strange broadcasts emanating from…somewhere. Some are known as “numbers stations” that periodically feature a voice in a foreign language
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Ongoing History Daily: How radio changed the home.
With all our technology, it’s easy to ignore and forget that we’re only about a hundred years deep into having music and audio information delivered directly to us. Radios started to come into
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Canadian radio wants the CRTC to “start over on radio regulations”
Talk to anyone who works with Canadian content in this country, and they’ll tell you the regulatory system is pretty messed up when it comes to government rules on how traditional, terrestrial, good
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There’s another payola scandal in American radio
I’ve been in the radio business in Canada for almost 44 years, many of them working at the highest levels of programming. In all that time, I’ve never, ever been offered any kind
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Today is World Radio Day 2025
As someone who has worked in the business for almost 44 years, radio is a big part of my life and I daresay my identity. I will always love and support the oldest
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Random music news for Thursday, January 9, 2025
We’ve had Boomers, GenX, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha. Babies born in 2025 will be part of Gen Beta. Now that you know that, we can move on to music news for January
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AI doesn’t sleep or take vacations. Will humans be expected to keep up? One company insists employees work 84-hour weeks. Hell, no. Moving to music news for January 8, 2025… More music news?
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Retro fun: The car radio of the future
In 1971, our family car was a 1968 Chevy Impala, In the dashboard was a very basic Delco pushbutton AM radio. I don’t even know if an AM/FM radio was an option at
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Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off forever this month
Hardcore Stephen King fans know that he bought a cluster of radio stations in Bangor, Maine, so he could listen to radio that he liked. For 41 years, King has been a broadcasting
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