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Random music news for Monday, July 5, 2021

While music festivals are being canceled all across the UK, this swinger’s festival went ahead. What could possibly go wrong?

Need a vacation? Maybe you can volunteer to see if cruises are safe again. Over to music news for May

Jeezus. Now otters are getting COVID-19? In Georgia they are. Please make it stop. Meanwhile, here’s music news for April

The battle between Star Wars and Star Trek has been taken to a whole new level. Now let’s concentrate on

Surprisingly good, actually.

Cool. A floating Apple Store. Elsewhere in music news for September 11, 2020… Why do artists get paid so little

Is it cake? Let’s find out. (You’ll see what I mean.) Now some music news for July 22, 2020. Coronavirus

If hair salons don’t reopen soon, I’ll be back into ponytail territory for the time time in decades. This would

At one point, professing any kind of love for ABBA was considered to be highly uncool. Over the years, though,

Worried that you’re vulnerable to the Wuhan flu? What year were you born? There’s a connection, apparently. Now that I’ve

Leonardo DiCaprio turns 45 today. He still looks, like, 17. Moving on to music news for November 11, 2019… If

Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
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The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver