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Random music news for Friday, December 18, 2020

One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify

A little social engineering can go a long way. From The Hollywood Reporter: “A 27-year-old Austin, Texas, man allegedly stole

The US Government is putting together another Notorious Markets report, which names companies, websites, apps, and nations that it believes

It looked for a while that streaming was on its way to obliterating the desire to pirate music. Why would

June already. It would be nice if spring finally arrived in some parts of Canada. On to music news for

It’s never been easier or cheaper to get legal access to almost kind of media you want. Yet people continue

It’s a chilling sort of email. Someone from somewhere insists that you’ve violated copyright in some way (music, movies, other

One day, we’ll turn on the news and not hear anything about Donald Trump. One day… Meanwhile, here’s music news

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] Back in the old days of overpriced CDs and peer-to-peer file-sharing,

Snow tires. Gotta start about thinking of putting them on. We also need to think of music news for October

It was on this day in October 1970 when Pierre Trudeau enacted the War Measures Act. It was a scary

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