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Random music news for Thursday, January 28, 2021

Need a nap after lunch? You will be doing your boss a favour (and yourself, too). I have a quick

This is Blue Monday, right? It’s supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Hopefully, it’s at least sunny where

I’ll bet you’re expecting an opening link to something Halloween related. Nope. This is much more interesting. And so is

The album has been the main currency of the recorded music industry since about 1965 when it took over from

There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved

Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on

Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one

Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with

For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced

October 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums

Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single

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 […]
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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 […]
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