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Random music news for Monday, January 25, 2021

If you don’t have enough to fret about, take a look at Satanist robots and vampire dolls. Got that? Then

What do The Tragically Hip’s Day for Night, Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy, The Neville Brother’s Yellow Moon and REM’s Automatic

The Order of Canada, this country’s highest civilian award, is given out twice a year. The latest crop of 99

Seventy years ago today, the first widely reported sighting of UFOs was made by Kenneth Arnold around Mount Rainer, Washington.

Whenever an artist goes into the studio, they hope for the best but expect the worst. You want the resulting

On March 9, 1987, a little more than ten years after a bunch of kids met up in a Dublin

The 30th anniversary of the release of U2’s The Joshua Tree was Thursday, March 9. This past Sunday (March 12),

U2 fans already know that yesterday (March 9) was the 30th anniversary of the release of The Joshua Tree, an

On this day in 1984, Michael Jackson’s head caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. Some stories

If you’re in the Greater Toronto Area and are free Wednesday night, you might want to consider attending a special

Daniel Lanois is one of the big names performing at next week’s Green Belt Harvest Picnic outside of Hamilton next

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