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Random music news for Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Can we please give the Jeopardy job to Mayim Bialik already? Or Levar Burton. I’d be okay with that, too.

Well, this just made the prospect of dating more interesting–and terrifying. Distract yourself from that by browsing through music news

Into astronomy? This looks like a fantastic new museum. For stars of another sort, here’s music news for July 23,

Is there a more Sisiphyian job on the planet than fetching shopping carts back to the store at Costco? Moving

People ask why I keep posting these Sunday Lunch videos. It’s simple: they generate a ton of traffic. Someone must

Before we begin, who doesn’t love news bloopers? Moving to music news for December 9, 2020… If this album sells

When we finally get back to traveling, I think I’m gonna get me one of these. Meanwhile, more pandemic distraction

It was eleven years ago today that Sully Sullivan landed that airliner in the Hudson River. Moving to music news

Is it just me or are you getting more spam calls on your mobile phone and/or land line? I’m averaging

Before Aerosmith broke through to become a platinum-selling band which flies private to gigs, they, like countless other groups, hit

In 1994, the Internet was still a weirdly wild place, something inhabited by scientists and computer nerds. That would begin

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
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 […]
Mark Silver