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Beyond the 8-track: A fascinating graveyard of forgotten music formats

[This was my column this week for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Sitting on a shelf in my home office is a

Since the dawn of recorded audio in 1877, we’ve gone through a series of formats, starting with the wax cylinder

Most of us are probably pretty ecumenical when it comes to choosing a format for listening to music. Digital files

Over the 130-ish years the recorded music industry has existed, we’ve consumed music through cylinders, shellac discs, vinyl, several iterations

Here’s a good article from NPR on how radio has shaped the course of pop music over the decades. You

What’s your preferred format of music? CDs? Vinyl? Digital files? Streams? A little bit of each, maybe? And once you

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
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