Author: mike (in boston)

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 [...]

The End of the Road - Longread on the role of the beat reporter in 2018
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Good morning sports media fans. I have been sitting on this post for a while, waiting until I could [...]

OK, Blue Jays : Recapping the baseball media stories from a busy off-season
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Good morning sports media fans and industry watchers. Spring is here and the Jays are playing meani [...]

Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
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Good morning sports media fans. I'm away on a sports media consulting gig this weekend but have a f [...]

Forum: TSN1050’s Power Play How have their big radio moves turned out?
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I am stuck at home sick with a cold and thought this would be a good time to ask some questions of [...]

Longreads: The Anatomy of an Article The Star's Kevin McGran discusses his recent profile of Gary Bettman
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Good morning sports media fans. Since we spend so much time talking about journalism in this space [...]

Passing the Torch On the next generation of columnists
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Job Opening: Head Opinionist
I am going to give credit to Richard Deitsch for the term "op [...]

Best & Worst of 2017 Open Thread
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As we come to the end of 2017 I am curious about which changes in the world of Toronto sports media [...]

Rogers: Blue Jays are for sale + Blair v Stroman
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Who Should Own the Jays Next?
Bloomberg News is reporting that Rogers' CFO announced the c [...]

This Week in Bad Twitter Is tweeting the same as reporting?
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I have greatly culled the number of accounts I follow over the last several months so I am probably [...]

Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition November 2017 Repost
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November 2017: With all the hubbub about Shapiro reorganizing the media r [...]

Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
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Good morning sports media fans. Forgive the self-indulgence of what follows. I try to make these co [...]

Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition (Repost from April 2017)
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Good morning sports media fans, hopefuls, insiders, and powerful executives. The local media is chu [...]

Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
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Good morning sports media fans. Things are very busy at the gas station where I stock shelves so I [...]