Covid Killed The Radio A look at the latest Toronto Sports Media Ratings As Toronto Was Locked Out
By TSM Ultimately, a lockdown keeping people at home was more than enough to completely body slam the Toronto sports radio market. Despite the return [...]
Ron MacLean Apologizes Again
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Editorial Note: This story was picked up by Google News. For clarification, this is an opinion colu [...]
Masai, Toronto As An NBA Detterent, NHL TV Ratings, Birdcages & More It's been a crazy couple of weeks in sports media, here's a roundup.
By TSM Greetings and salutations and a hat tip Happy Birthday this week to one Robert McCown. What a crazy, crazy couple of weeks in the sports medi [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. As the industry continues to evolve in 2021, sports media news drop [...]
Has Rogers Quit The CHL? Is The Third Time The Charm For Greg Brady? It appears that Rogers has bought out the remaining term on it's CHL contract and an old face could return (again) in a new role on Rogers radio
By TSM It's been a crazy couple of days and just like old times, yours truly has been on the road a lot..and am going back again tomorrow So here ar [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. My suspension is over and I'm back to talk about the news of the la [...]
Toronto Sports Media Roundup: Gambling, Leafs Media, Natasha Staniszewski & More Lots going on as NHL and NBA trade deadlines approach, sports gambling
By TSM As the calendar moves into April there certainly is a lot to talk about is there not? Not one specific topic this week, rather some random th [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
IMAGE SOURCE: from a simpler time by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. This week's column is a little [...]
Has Rogers Sportsnet Given Up On Sports Radio? The Toronto Blue Jays become the only team to simulcast games from TV to radio
By TSM Where to start? Today is March 1, the kickoff of the most significant radio rating book season. To confirm, Rogers Sportsnet Fan 590 in the d [...]
End of an Era: Sportsnet Cancels Blue Jays Radio
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email The legacy left behind by Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth will be on pause in 2021, and its future is n [...]
Is Dave Cadeau Out At Rogers Sportsnet Fan 590? Changes continue on the Sports side of things at Rogers Sports Media
By TSM UPDATE: Confirmed by Sportsnet. Cadeau has been let go. His twitter handle has also been revised to omit "Director of Programming, Spo [...]
From the ashes a fire shall be woken….Media Style The last few weeks have been amongst the darkest in Canadian Media..Is there a flicker?
By TSM A poet I am not. While not opposed to poetry, I am not a fan either. Not that there's anything wrong with that....Right? However, perhaps it [...]
Complete Carnage At Bell Media Radio: Vancouver, Winnipeg and Hamilton Sports Stations Eliminated The Cuts at Bell keep coming...entire stations gutted
by TSM & Mike Developing... Bell earlier this am flipped the switch at three stations from regular programming to ESPN radio with staff b [...]
The Times They Are A Changing & Blue Jays Beat Writer Rob Longley #inthepressrow Tim & Sid, Jay & Dan both broken up as media landscape across Canada implodes
By TSM Deep and wide. The cuts by Bell Media this week were definitely that. Not just in sports media, but media, in general, contributed bigly to [...]
Blue Jays Signing Sparks The Toronto Debate, Again, The Dome An Environmental Disaster & SiriusXM Host Zig Fracassi #inthepressrow Just when we thought we all agreed that Toronto will continue to have to pay a premium to lure top name free agents the issue was raised, again.
By TSM Not sure if you read Doug Smith's stellar book or heard my interview with him but the issue of Toronto teams, especially the Blue Jays and Rap [...]
Doug Smith In The Pressrow On The Toronto Raptors, The Toronto Problem & Why Access Matters Long time Toronto Raptors Beat Reporter Doug Smith tells stories about his career covering the team, writing a book, and why it's so necessary for reporters to get back to games and in locker rooms.
By TSM Doug Smith has covered the Toronto Raptors from day one. He raised his hand when the Toronto Star was looking for someone to take on the role [...]
Sid Seixeiro Moving to Breakfast TV
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email A year and a half after having drive time to themselves, the Tim & Sid show is ending. [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. Welcome to 2021. This year I'm looking for additional input from pe [...]
Radio Executive Don Kollins #inthepressrow The Ever Changing Role Of Media, Layoffs, Cuts & Dream Lineup Is streaming the death of terrestrial radio as we know it? Are team and player-controlled media hurting the game and where does sports media go from here?
By TSM Long-time media executive Don Kollins joins Jonah Sigel to discuss why all the job losses in media- especially sport media are counter-product [...]
Toronto Sports Media Wrap Up: Year End thoughts; Favorite Isolation Items & Gary Lawless In the Pressrow Last post of what's been an interesting year! A review of some cool lockdown tools & last podcast of the year
By TSM Well, here we are. We've almost made it to the end of 2020 and not a minute too soon. We've all had years before that were not so great ( I kn [...]