Category: BUSINESS OF SPORTS
The Athletic Looks to Disrupt Podcasting
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email After posting several jobs on their hiring website over the past several months The Athletic has of [...]
Fall & Winter 2018-2019 Sports Radio Ratings
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
by mike in boston / @mikeinboston / email 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
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 [...]