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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

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