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Random music news for Monday, May 3, 2021

Let’s start the week with 99 pieces of advice that everyone should heed. (Via Walter) Once you digest that, here’s

I don’t like green beer. I do like music news for March 17, 2021. Why aren’t there more protest songs

Fun fact: Chinese couples are clamoring to get married next Sunday because the Chinese characters for that date (20210314) look

Warp drive is possible! (And we didn’t need Zefram Cochrane, either.) Can First Contact be far behind? Let’s zip over

Is anyone else being bombarded with spam saying that they’ve won/inherited/chosen to receive thousands or millions of dollars? I’ve seen

Merry Christmas! Bet you thought there’d be no music news for December 25, did you? Wrong. An original Dave Grohl

One more month left in this horrible year. Hang in there. Here’s music news for December 1, 2020. Halsey has

It’s Cyber Monday. But given that so many of us are in lockdown anyway, is that even a thing this

Hey, whatever happened to Subway’s Jared? Oh. On to music news for November 27, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Well, this

Is it over yet? Is it safe to come out? Jeebus, it’s not? Can we afford to divert our attention

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

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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