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Random music news for Friday, September 25, 2020

I gotta stop buying the stuff advertised in Instagram. My record is Pieces of Crap 5, Actually Useful Stuff 1.

This could be the weirdest radio station I’ve ever heard of. Cool. Back to reality with a look at music

Willie O’Ree, the first Black player in the NHL, played his first game with the NY Rangers on this day

If you’re going to a movie this weekend, note that Thomas Edison patented something called “motion pictures” on this day

Plastic (or at least the first version of it) is 110 years old today. As for music news for February

The sound you heard at midnight was a bunch of radio stations flipping to an all-Christmas format for the rest

Today is the 55th anniversary of the Washington-Moscow hotline that went into use after the Cuban missile crisis. And when

The rainbow flag of gay pride was first flown in San Francisco on this day in 1978. And as for

Why is DST still a thing? It plays hell on the mind and body. It’s never been proven to do

I walked into a restaurant for bacon and eggs this morning and what’s the first thing I heard? Mariah Carey’s

On this day in 1994, WXYC, a campus radio station, made the first Internet radio broadcast. And what’s happening as

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver