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Random music news for Saturday, February 6, 2021

Be happy you don’t live in this quaint English village. Gross. What’s wrong with people? Distract yourself from the mental

The supply of new TV program is so bad that Channel 4 in the UK has greenlit a new show

No, it’s not your imagination. You may have seen robins earlier than usual. Let’s move to music news for April

Here’s the best part about potential North Korean missile attacks on the US: They’d have to fly over Canadian territory

When it comes to artists on Spotify, Canada, rules. Drake is the most-streamed act on Spotify with 1.8 billion listens

If it weren’t for Canadian artists, the American music landscape would be much, much different. FYIMusicNews.ca points us to this

A couple more days here at the NE Caribbean Command post before I’ll be drag kicking and screaming from this

He didn’t, of course. But under CanCon rules for radio wouldn’t this over of “I Can’t Feel My Face” qualify

Today’s music news comes from the ANA business lounge at Narita Airport in Tokyo. Stephen Page has sued his old

Pricing a 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