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Random music news for Friday, April 10, 2020

I completely forgot that we had a long weekend this week. Frankly, EVERY weekend for the last month has been

Once the Province of Ontario softened up their liquor laws in 1946, Toronto came alive. This is when Toronto’s jazz

The dogs stuck their noses outside this morning, sniffed the cold and said “Nope. We’re holding it until April.” I

The first half of the 20th century was driven by jazz. This was the dominant music of the era and

Streaming is dominated by hip-hop, R&B, and pop. If you’re going to be a star and make millions like Drake

It was on this day in 1970 that Bobby Orr scored THAT goal, the one with him flying through the

Our Milky Way galaxy, which is at least 100,000 light-years across, completes a rotation in a leisurely 225 to 250 million

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

There’s plenty of music that we don’t like right away. Opera, for example. Modern jazz is another. So is virtually

Ever hear of Harry Anslinger? Probably not, even though he was America’s first drug czar. Much of today’s war on

It was on this day in 1976 that the Montreal Olympics opened. Twenty-five African teams boycotted the games because the

Pricing a 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 […]
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 […]
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