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Random music news for Friday, November 27, 2020

Will in-person Black Friday shopping add to our COVID-19 problems? I’d bet on it. Stay home, shop online, and enjoy

Black Friday began as an American thing, that day after Thanksgiving that marked the official beginning of the Christmas shopping

For the past several years, there have been two Record Store Days. The first is the traditional spot in April.

Black Friday, that day right after American Thanksgiving, has become the official start of the Christmas shopping season. The organizers

There’s a bougainvillea that my wife has in a pot in the backyard and it’s STILL alive. That’s one tough

The day after American Thanksgiving–otherwise known as Black Friday–is when we’re supposed to descend into an orgy of Christmas shopping.

It was a Friday afternoon in 1987 when the skies over Edmonton turned ominously dark. Thunderstorms were moving through and

The American consumerist orgy known as Black Friday has spread into Canada over the last few years as retailers try

America shuts down for Thanksgiving later today. I’ll try to keep the music news coming best I can. The Kanye

It was on this day in 1963 that the first-ever push-button telephone went into service. And now, some music news…

Once we get Halloween out of the way, it’s all uphill to Christmas. America, of course, loses its shopping mind

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
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 […]
Mark Silver