Category: BUSINESS OF SPORTS
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2020 Sports Media Power Rankings: Radio
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email As 2020 comes to an end we thought it would be a good time to take stock of the state of the indust [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekday Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. As the year winds down the sports media news seems to be ramping up [...]
NHL Superagent & Former NHLPA Exec Ian Pulver On The Corona Effect on Hockey & Current Negotiations Agent and former NHLPA attorney Ian Pulver on the effect of the Corona on hockey playing kids and what the current issues are that are being discussed between the NHL and the NHLPA
By TSM With the Corona shutting down almost everything around us in some way or another, it's worth noting that time itself doesn't stand still, and [...]
The Inside Scoop On A Potential New Toronto Blue Jays Stadium! Paul Godfrey #inthepressrow Why A New Rogers Center Won't Be Based At It's Current Location, Blue Jays moving to MLSE & the Beauty of The Athletic
By TSM Without question, Paul Godfrey has seen it all in his private and public life in Toronto. He is largely viewed as being the driving force behi [...]
End Of An Era, Mike Wilner Gone From Blue Jays Broadcast Team, New Stadium Talk & More Mike Wilner No Longer Part Of Jays Radio, Word Of A New Stadium & More
By TSM I couldn't believe that Scott Ferguson was not going to be the voice associated with pre-and post-Toronto Blue Jays games when he announced hi [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekday Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans from chilly Toronto. As always, if there are things you think we mis [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekday Edition
Image Credit: Lori Beckstead, from passthemic.fcad.ryerson.ca by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. Ap [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. We had a busy sports week in Toronto, and it's a busy regular lif [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. If you live in Toronto, get outside and enjoy all the great things about o [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. Wishing everyone a safe return to covering and watching live sports [...]