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Random music news for Friday, May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018May 3, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Dame Vera Lynn, E, Ecstasy, Facebook, Fleetwood Mac, Gaming, Google, Jazz, Kanye West, Kurt Cobain, Lindsey Buckingham, MDMA, Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek, Taylor Swift, Van Morrison, YouTube

I just can’t stop staring at the car crash that is the Trump administration. It’s better than any TV show,

Music News

The Cold War Weirdness of Radio Swan

November 30, 2015December 1, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments CIA, Cold War, Gibraltar Steamship Company, Honduras, Radio Swan

Before the Internet came along to distract me, I often sat up late at night with my Sony ICF-7600W shortwave

Music History

Ex-KGB Agent: “We Financed UK Punk to Destabilize the West”

June 18, 2015June 17, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Conspiracy, KGB

As tinfoil hat conspiracies go, this is a good one. Roland points us to this article at LouderThanWar: Not so

Podcast

Geeks&Beats Episode 89: We’re Back! Hello, 2015.

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment autonomous cars, Bono, Cold War, Consumer Electronics Show, earthquakes, Elvis Presley, Federal Communications Commission, Manchester Orchestra, Music Piracy, Net Neutrality, Numbers Stations, Rivet, Scotch, Soju, Spying, The Americans, Tom Wheeler, tricycle, trike, U2, William Shatner

After taking the last half of December off to investigate new and exotic forms of vodka (you’ll hear about it

Music History

November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Comes Down

November 8, 2014November 8, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Berlin Wall, Cold War, Iron Curtain

Twenty-five years ago–November 9, 1989–the barrier known officially as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart by East Germany–stopped being a wall. Through

Music History

A Brief History of Soviet Rock’n’Roll

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Soft Power, Soviet Rock

I love stuff like this. From Radio Free Europe: A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this

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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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