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Random music news for Friday, July 20, 2018

Today is the 50th anniversary of the start of the first-ever Special Olympics. It was held in Mexico City. As

Most record labels would just love it if CDs were to disappear tomorrow. No more manufacturing, transporting, warehousing and distributing.

In the days before streaming took off, big box retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy were hugely important for

The first time I ran into a hidden track on a CD was with an early edition of Nirvana’s Nevermind.

I have a room off my office I call the CD Vault. It’s crammed with maybe 10,000 compact discs dating

If you go back to today’s Random Music News, you’ll see that CD sales have taken another huge dump, dropping

Over the decades, the CBC has become one of the biggest repositories of recorded music in the known world. Its

If Dolly the Cloned Sheep were still alive, she’d be 21 today. In music news for February 22, 2018… The

From the end of the Great War until the Crash of ’29, record sales increased year after year after year.

So far this year, Canadian compact disc sales are down 38% vs. this time last year. At best, 9 million

There’s been a lot of talk about how the CD is dead, killed by the relentless uptick in streaming. Yes,

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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