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Random music news for Tuesday, October 8, 2019

On this day in 1921, KDKA Pittsburgh became the first radio station to broadcast a live football game. Fast-forwarding to

The speaking tour continues. Tonight I’m in Kamloops. If you’re in the area, come on out. Details here. Give it

One more sleep until the long weekend. And aren’t the kids out of school already? If not, it’ll be tomorrow.

Now that we’re well and good into the second half of 2018, it’s perhaps a good time to pause to

Both the US and the UK are back to work after a long weekend today, so is there any music

The producers of Game of Thrones have a thing for casting musicians as extras. Seasons 1-2: Wilko Johnson of Dr.

If Dolly the Sheep was still with us, she’d be 20 years old today. And now, the music news. Prophets

All right, back to work. Only 78 days until spring. And while we’re on the subject of a new year,

For some reason, this date is indelibly etched into my mind because a billion years ago, my mom prohibited my

On this day 95 years ago, a Montreal station that went by the name XWA began broadcasting the first ever

Still in Vancouver. Damn, it’s nice out here–unless you’re running a ski resort. No snow this year. Thankfully, the FCC

Intimate gatherings of sports fans and media personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
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The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
Mark Silver
Reaching new VR frontiers – Laura Mingail in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 010 November 10, 2020
Pushing boundaries and breaking with convention takes more than confidence, especially when you’re working inside a media giant. To do this in an authentic and meaningful way one needs to truly believe that they can make a difference, for the greater good. Laura Mingail has done just that in many of her roles, and as […]
Mark Silver