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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: A STP lesson in crowd control

When Scott Weiland was still fronting Stone Temple Pilots, he had no trouble getting into a fight with someone in

I recall being rather shocked the day when Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple came into the radio station in the spring

Building and maintaining a band is a lot like building and maintain a sports team. You struggle and wheel-and-deal and

You have music you don’t know about and never asked for. And no, I’m not talking about a U2 album.

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians

[NOTE: I’m on vacation this week, so there will probably be fewer postings than usual. – AC] Eight years ago

What if you could own a piece of your favourite song? And you get a piece of the musician’s royalty

Do Toronto newspapers have the absolute worst comics sections in all of North America? It’s embarrassing, really. Now let’s look

The Stone Temple Pilots have just released their first single with their new singer. This came out around 7 am

According to one group, a new US civil war is supposed to start today. Meanwhile, in music news for November

I’m already looking forward to the hour of extra sleep this weekend. But seriously: we should just get rid of

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, […]
Mark Silver
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 […]
Mark Silver
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 […]
Mark Silver