Category: BUSINESS OF SPORTS
Sport Radio in 2018: The Year in Review
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good afternoon sports media fans. Things have been quiet in local sports media news lately. No chan [...]
An Interview with Dave Shoalts
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. With the calendar switching over to November this means that Scott [...]
The Cost of Consumption
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media readers. The Star recently launched a new digital subscription service. T [...]
Developing: Changes At Top of Rogers Sportsnet
by TSM: Multiple sources tell me this morning that Scott Moore will be leaving Rogers Sportsnet at the end of October. Moore is the President of Sport [...]
Scott Moore’s Memo
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. Jonah and I are both busy so posting will be pretty irregular here [...]
The End of the Road - Longread on the role of the beat reporter in 2018
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans and industry watchers. Spring is here and the Jays are playing meani [...]
Toronto Sports Media Winter 2017-2018 Radio Ratings Show by show look at how the 2 Toronto All Sports Radio stations are doing
By TSM All the caveats still apply same systems, same issues etc. It's the only ratings we have etc.. Generally speaking, not a whole lot of change [...]
Seen & Heard – Weekend Edition
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Good morning sports media fans. I'm away on a sports media consulting gig this weekend but have a f [...]
Longreads: The Anatomy of an Article The Star's Kevin McGran discusses his recent profile of Gary Bettman
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Job Opening: Head Opinionist I am going to give credit to Richard Deitsch for the term "op [...]
Best & Worst of 2017 Open Thread
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email As we come to the end of 2017 I am curious about which changes in the world of Toronto sports media [...]
Toronto Sports Media Fall Radio Ratings Ratings, Ratings, We've got the Toronto sports radio ratings for TSN 1050 vs. Fan 590
By TSM First the ARGO's then the TFC, good things come in 3's so next will be __________ I know how we all love the radio ratings game, so my gift t [...]
Rogers: Blue Jays are for sale + Blair v Stroman
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email Who Should Own the Jays Next? Bloomberg News is reporting that Rogers' CFO announced the c [...]