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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, July 14, 2022

July 14, 2022July 14, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Breaking Bad, Climate Change, Fitness, Lukas Graham, R Kelly, Radio, Rage Against the Machine, Rogers, SNL, Stranger Things, Sync

The city of Albuquerque is going to unveil bronze statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. A

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Survey 

Weekly survey: Should we go back to paper concert tickets?

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Outage, Rogers, The Weeknd

Chunks of the country are still trying to recover from the Big Rogers Outage of 2002 on Friday. I feel

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, July 9, 2022

July 9, 2022July 9, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Backstreet Boys, Barbie, Bob Dylan, Disney, Disturbed, Dr Dre, Kanye West, Live Nation, My Chemical Roman, Netflix, Podcasting, Rogers, Soundtracks, Spotify, The Weeknd, Three Days Grace

On a dating app? Notice the conspiracy theories there? Nothing conspiratorial about music news for July 9, 2022. Doing his

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Controversy 

Telecom companies want the CRTC to block piracy sites (as they define them)

January 2, 2018January 2, 2018 Amber Healy 0 Comments Bell, Cinemas Guzzo, cineplex, Copyright, CRTC, Dancing Baby, DMCA, Net Neutrality, Piracy, Rogers

If telecom companies in Canada have their way, it’s possible net neutrality will be limited in the Great White North

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Music News 

Want Your Band to Perform During This Years’ Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour? Apply Now.

October 12, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hockey, Rogers

For the fourth year in a row, the Rogers Hometown Hockey tour will set out across the country to celebrate

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Music Industry Television 

Music Channel Vintage TV Debuts on Rogers Cable, Giving It Coast-to-Coast Coverage in Canada

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 Alan Cross 14 Comments Rogers, Shaw, Vintage TV

First, full disclosure: I’m the Creative Director of Vintage-TV. I’ve been working with its British parent company for almost two

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Music News 

Bad News: Streaming Music Services Will Still Count Towards Your Mobile Data Cap

April 21, 2017 Alan Cross 5 Comments Bell, CRTC, Data Caps, Differential Pricing, Rogers, Telus, Videotron, Zero-rating

So many Canadians want to stream services like Spotify and Apple Music to their mobile phones but are terrified about

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Wednesday, April 1, 2015

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Ajinai, Alibaba, British Steel, Coachella, Connected Car, Ed Sheeran, Fido, Inner Mongolia, Judas Priest, Kate Hudson, Matt Bellamy, MuchMusic, Muse, Rogers, Spotify, Tupac

I hate April Fool’s Day. Everywhere contained herein is to the best of my knowledge 100% true. Spotify has struck

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Music History 

Why Streaming Music Services Are Getting Bundled Up with Other Things

April 30, 2014April 30, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments AT&T, Beats, Deezer, Pandora, Rogers, Shaw, Songza, Spotify, Sprint, Telus

Streaming music services still haven’t penetrated the Canadian psyche as much as they have in the rest of the world–we’re

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