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Most of us have been spending quite a bit of time at home because of bloody COVID. Chances are you’ve

Still in LA. I remain unconsumed by wildfires. A good thing, that, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to report on

Plutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019

Tunefind is a service that tracks music from television and movies. According to their data, this has been a banner

The LA riots after the beating of Rodney King started 25 years ago today. And now, the music news for

If you’re going to spend a bunch of money on a big-screen TV, it seems silly to skimp on the

Every single music conference I’ve attended over the last three years has had at least two sessions on music supervision

If you listen to the early adopters and tech types, traditional terrestrial radio is dead. No one listens anymore. Everyone

Don’t celebrate this: the Nazi Party was founded on this day in 1920. Let’s leave that behind and focus on

The amount of material from David Bowie’s career that’s appeared online since Monday morning is astounding. Here, for example, is

In the US, at least–but I’m sure we can extrapolate these results to Canada. From Statista: You will find more

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
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver