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Look out, Spotify: Amazon is busy building a live audio business

Spotify began strictly as a streaming music service but from the beginning, the company has had a mission to become

Olympics! Right. Probably should start watching, huh? But only after music news for July 24, 2021. To help get the

Still not washing your hands enough? This video by Yonge Street legends might help. Now on to music news for

Just when you thought the story of Rudy Giuliani couldn’t get any weirder, his daughter has written a piece called

For reasons unknown, this earworm has been going through my head for a week. Think very carefully before you click

A good question: Why does Wite-Out and Liquid Paper still exist? If you’re of a certain age, you probably have

Getting ready to do serious Geeks&Beats reporting from CES 2020. For example, I found this device which apparently is the

You know what it’s like when family gets together over Christmas: At some point, no matter how careful everyone is

Maybe one more day of erratic posts and email responses. Surgical recovery is taking a little longer than expected. Here’s

Off to Winnipeg tonight to prepare for a TEDx presentation I have to give on Wednesday. Maybe I’ll see you

Off to Ottawa today for the next round of dates in my spring speaking tour. Maybe I’ll see you there.

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