Category: BUSINESS OF SPORTS
Sportsnet’s Don Cherry Attacks Immigrants on CBC
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Don Cherry took to the national airwaves Saturday night to call out immigrants for failing to wear [...]
FAN590’s New Vision For Drive Home
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Beyond the abrupt and short-lived change to 3-6pm, the 4-7pm slot has been sacrosanct at Fan590 for [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
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Good morning sports media fans. We had a very busy week and rather than posting several short stori [...]
Sportsnet Revamps Entire 590 Line-Up Greg Brady Out
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Hi everyone - Jonah and I are trying to collect as much information as possible but also want to gi [...]
Sports Media Stories to Watch in 2019: Prime Time Sports
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Good morning sports media fans. Hope you're enjoying the end of summer.
I'd like to exten [...]
Sportsnet Tries to Change the Narrative on the Jays
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I'm on vacation from work right now and will try to devote some more time to writing over the comin [...]
An Interview with The Star’s Gregor Chisholm
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With the Raptors taking the city by storm and the Leafs being a lead story 11 months out of 12 your [...]
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 chan [...]
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 [...]