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Random music news for Thursday, March 18, 2020

Just for fun, let’s start with Tom Petty on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Damn the (photon) torpedos? (Give

It’s been almost a year since most of our lives hit a hard pause, including the ability to go to

If you’ve been getting creative and working out at home during this (good grief will it ever end) pandemic, newly

That’s it. I’m never ordering fries and Diet Coke together again. Instead, I’ll just focus on music news for March

Back on this side of the Atlantic for a while after my Beatles assignment. More on that anon. Meanwhile, here’s

NASA is employing Ariana Grande to attract women to the space program. I quote: “As we look forward to sending

The elder bull terrier has leaf mold allergies again. That’s another $500. Enough of that, though. Let’s do music news

Back to school, back to work. The next three months are, as usual, going to be insane. Here’s music news

YouTube won’t be helping musicians track down and demand payment from people who use tiny snippets of their music –

June already. It would be nice if spring finally arrived in some parts of Canada. On to music news for

One summer long weekend down. But there’s still three more to go. Meanwhile, let’s get back to work with some

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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