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Random music news for Friday, August 10, 2018

The staycation continues. How much have I accomplished with that list of things I was planning to do around the

The Barbie Doll made its debut on this day in 1959. Over a billion sold. And as for music news

One of the reasons vinyl continues to do well is because it provides us with physical content with the vessel

The CNE opens in Toronto today, which as everyone in Southern Ontario knows is the official start of the end

Yesterday’s Apple event in San Francisco opened with this short film featuring CEO Tim Cook. I somehow can’t imagine Steve

If you’re in Canada, you’re enjoying a holiday with different names in different provinces. Maybe. This is one of those

Damn, thunderstorms are LOUD here in Singapore. Never heard thunder like this before. It was hard to concentrate on gathering

When Apple bought Beats from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine for more than $3 billion USD, a lot of people

Um, aren’t there antitrust laws that might prevent this? From Billboard: [A] source familiar with the talks says the tech

Greggory was going through this live blog coverage of a Wall Street Journal interview with Tim Cook and found this.

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 […]
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