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Random music news for Wednesday, May 27, 2020

This might cheer you up: The Knight Rider theme performed on eight cellos by the same person. Now that you’re

On this day in 1911, a Louvre employee stole the Mona Lisa. They got it back, obviously. On to music

This is what thinking looks like. Cool! Grow more neurons by reading through music news for Tuesday, June 4, 2019.

It was a big day in space history on this date in 1970 when Apollo 13 made it back to

Last day of July already and the back-to-school ads are in full effect. Fantastic. Here’s music news for July 31,

I had my windows professionally washed the other day. They looked great for four hours. Then a flock of Canada geese

Heading back from the Junos in Vancouver today. There had better be Wifi on this flight. How else can I

David Bowie died two years ago today. To commemorate that, this demo of “Let’s Dance” was released. And in more

Yep. December. And that bougainvillea in my backyard has finally died. That was one tough tropical plant. And now the music

On this day in 1985, a new computer program called Microsoft 1.0 was released. It wasn’t very good. Really. Here’s

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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