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Random music news for Saturday, April 18, 2020

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.

The first-ever space shuttle launch happened on this day in 1981 as STS-1. It was Columbia–but we all know what

Today is Facebook’s 15th birthday. In music news for February 4, 2019… Why is this music festival sending out invitations

I wonder how much it cost Amazon to get Harrison Ford appear in this Alexa Super Bowl commercial? Meh. Jeff

I promise to take down the Christmas tree this weekend. Promise. Or at least as soon as I finish with

It’s tough getting back into the swing of things after the holidays, isn’t it? But now that we’re into double

Dave Krikst in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 002 July 29, 2020
Dave Krikst (aka My Man D) is the creative mind behind many of the most memorable shareable off the court or ice moments in Canadian sports over the last 20 years. Throughout his career, starting early on with theScore television network and Rogers Media’s’ FAN 590, and then with Bell Media’s TSN, Dave has established […]
Mark Silver
Launch Day – The Backstage Project Podcast July 23, 2020
Welcome to the launch of The Backstage Project Podcast! I’m Mark Silver, and I’ll be your guide as we weave our way through the history, here and now, and future of the Canadian sports and entertainment landscape. The Backstage Project Podcast takes you on a journey into the sports and entertainment world. We focus on […]
Mark Silver
Rick Chisholm in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 001 July 11, 2020
In our premiere episode we are blessed to sit down with former Vice President of Programming and Production at TSN and Executive VP Broadcasting for Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Rick Chisholm. We chat with Rick about the formation of TSN, the Vancouver and London Olympics and much much more. Have a listen. The post Rick […]
Mark Silver