Author: mike (in boston)
Post-McCown Sports Media Power Rankings Plus: ranking the remaining radio shows
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Happy Canada Day weekend. With the big news last week that Sportsnet had decided they were better o [...]
Sportsnet Prepares for Massive Layoffs
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Updated from earlier to reflect public statements by Sportsnet, McCown, and others.
Bob Mc [...]
Raptors Take Centre Court
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Toronto has always been a Leafs town first, and a Jays town second, with basketball struggling to g [...]
TSN’s Mark Milliere Arrested for DUI
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Mark Milliere, TSN's Senior Vice-President of Production, suddenly parted ways with parent company Bell i [...]
The Athletic Looks to Disrupt Podcasting
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After posting several jobs on their hiring website over the past several months The Athletic has of [...]
Fall & Winter 2018-2019 Sports Radio Ratings
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If there's one topic that has generated more interest than any other around here it's radio ratings. The F [...]
Longreads: the ethics of writing about tragedy
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Good morning sports media fans. Since we spend so much time talking about journalism here I like [...]
Sport Radio in 2018: The Year in Review
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Good morning sports media fans. Regular readers will have noticed that I stopped writing about radio in 2018 [...]
Sports Media Stories to Watch in 2019: Economics
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Good morning sports media fans.
This is the final instalment of a series on sports media storie [...]
Sports Media Stories to Watch in 2019: Podcasting
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Good morning sports media fans. Try not to freeze out there today. Over the next few posts I'll be discuss [...]
Sports Media Stories to Watch in 2019: Damien Cox
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Good morning sports media fans. Happy New Year to all our readers.
I'd like to extend a special thank [...]
TSN & Sportsnet lose EPL rights to DAZN
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Good afternoon sports media fans. Things have been quiet in local sports media news lately. No changes to t [...]
An Interview with Dave Shoalts
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Good morning sports media fans. With the calendar switching over to November this means that Scott [...]
The Cost of Consumption
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Good morning sports media readers. The Star recently launched a new digital subscription service. T [...]
Forum: Morning Radio
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TSN1050 Shuffles the Deck
Good morning Toronto sports media consumers. The topic this morn [...]
Scott Moore’s Memo
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Hello sports media watchers. With the busy sports season in full swing we are going to get back to [...]
Reading Recap Media roundup on Raps and Jays making news
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It's a horrible day in Toronto so here's something to distract us from the fact that someone was ab [...]
Business As Usual Another bad week for women in sports
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Good morning sports media fans. Jonah and I are both busy so posting will be pretty irregular here [...]
Forum: Blue Jays radio booth
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Quick post to get some discussion going on the subject of the Blue Jays radio pairings.
As [...]
Forum: Toronto Sports Radio - sizing up the quality of the lineups on 1050 and 590
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Happy Wednesday. About a year ago I decided to focus less on radio for a few reasons. First, I noti [...]