VHS Archives | Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Random music news for Monday, March 9, 2020

Yes, I’m glad for the extra daylight at the end of the day, but switching to DST is not healthy.

Aliens exist. Tom DeLonge will be proven right. Moving to music news for February 1, 2020… This is important: A

I got my first back-to-school school supplies email yesterday. Too soon, people. Too soon. And now, music news for July

Whilst browsing through a junk store on Sunday, a man stumbled across a VHS tape (remember those?) adore with a

There’s no question that streaming will continue to be A Thing in 2018. The question is, how much will streaming

VHS tapes? Collectible, sure. Valuable? Apparently. Michael points us to LoveAntiques.com which has a list of the most valuable VHS

It’s the morning of April 4. There’s 15 cm of fresh snow outside my door. It’s Monday. To say I’m

Before we set the lineup for this week’s show, we conducted a Twitter poll on whether we should cover the

The Great Format War of the 1980s pitted Sony’s Betamax video system against JVC’s VHS. Although Betamax was superior in

You’ve probably seen music videos YouTube where someone has obviously uploaded something they recorded on beta or VHS back in

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