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New Collaboration Aligns Traditional and Digital Reporting

One thing the music industry has struggled with in the digital age is how to report consistently between old and

Today everything about music is digital (outside of us vinyl anoraks, of course) but 20 years ago it was the

Here’s something to make you think. Earlier this week, Adweek magazine published an article about the uprising of Generation Z.

Don’t believe all the industry doom and gloom you hear in the news – music in Canada is doing pretty

Do you ever find yourself tapping away on your desk with pens? Banging different parts to play out that wicked

Calgary’s National Music Centre (NMC) has launched a new online platform in celebration of Canada 150, allowing fans to browse

Before 1965, outside of Broadway cast recordings, classical recordings and jazz, we lived in a singles world. It was all

I won’t lie. My first musical instrument was the accordion. My parents loved trotting me and my three-reed 120-bass Titano

An interesting look at radio’s future from Barrett Sports Media: Steve Jobs once said “people don’t know what they want

Radiohead has been an independent act for almost ten years now yet they still can’t seem to shake the shackles

When the man who made a career out of kicking the tires of the digital revolution turns around and starts

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
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