Category: SPORTS & TORONTO

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 [...]

Toronto Sports Media Wrap Up: Year End thoughts; Favorite Isolation Items & Gary Lawless In the Pressrow Last post of what's been an interesting year! A review of some cool lockdown tools & last podcast of the year
By TSM Well, here we are. We've almost made it to the end of 2020 and not a minute too soon. We've all had years before that were not so great ( I kn [...]

Toronto Sports Hibernation Pt. Deux
By TSM Amazing how quickly we have gone from 7 days a week, non-stop sports to no local professional big three sports at all. The Maple Leafs didn't [...]

Back To The Grind? Toronto Sports Media Equality Question How are you watching habits evolving? Where are the women in radio in Toronto?
By TSM Editors note: Sunday night addition! Michelle Sturino joined me #inthepressrow to talk about her career and her story of being passed ove [...]

Toronto Sports Media Generational Gap, NHL Media Rates & Give Huey A Break Audience age is as evolving as much as content creators, Rogers oversold the NHL return audience and kapanen Scores or did he?
By TSM I have a few favorite episodes of Happy Days the TV show. The first one is the Jump The Shark episode where Fonzie on waterskis attempt to ju [...]

Hipaa, Pipeda, Corona, Hazing & Sports Media Been the craziest 72 hours in sports media issues since covering sports media
by TSM Editor's note: On June 22nd, I interviewed Brock McGillis. The interview is below. Happy Father's Day weekend all! Things remain steady her [...]

NBA, NHL Creep Towards A Return, Baseball Not So Much & Check in With Joe Siddall The NHL and NBA are inching towards plans for the re-birth of the 2019-20 Season while MLB suffers in-fighting and we talk to Joe Siddall
By TSM EDITED: As if hockey fans needed another reason to get excited about the return of the #NHL on @Sportsnet ...Welcome to the team, Chris Cuthb [...]

Leafs Lunch Host & Broadcaster Andi Petrillo In The Pressrow by Bleav with Jonah Sigel The first woman to host Hockey Night in Canada and to have her own daily radio show on an all-sports radio station joins Jonah talking about York Region restaurants, tattoos in the workplace, Jeff O'Neil and more.
By TSM The current host of the daily radio show, Leafs Lunch on TSN1050 in Toronto Andi Petrillo joins Jonah Sigel in the Pressrow. Andi got her sta [...]

James Duthie Corona- Unplugged Bleav In The Pressrow With Jonah Sigel James Duthie is the premiere sports television host in Canada, he has covered every major sporting event with a unique blend of humor, humility, and expertise; this is his story, this is James Duthie unplugged.
by TSM Originally from Ottawa, James Duthie is THE host of sports television in Canada. James shares his career story with Jonah, from the newsroom i [...]

A Message From The Home Office Of Toronto Sports Media & COVID Musings Lots of thoughts from Hero's and down the list..
by Jonah While not comparing any of them in terms of impact to this current situation, I often think back to other situations for inspiration [...]

Toronto Sports Media Radio Ratings March 2020 – History Made
By TSM Sorry for the delay, but got bogged down here in the land of the Corona Let's get the usual 'the system sucks dislaimer' out of the way: Num [...]

The Masai Ujiri Coverage
By TSM New York is parting ways with President Steve Mills, league source tells ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 4, 2020 As is ofte [...]

Jamie McLennan Joins Jonah in Bleav, In the Pressrow ! Overdrive co-host talks about his playing days, adjusting to the media, a deadly battle, Mike Babcock and more
by TSM TSN's Jamie McLennan spent an hour with me talking about his career, life in the media and the changes in what is acceptable today vs. when h [...]

Shanahan Shows Babcock The Door Brendan Shanahan Fires Toronto Maple Leafs Head Coach Mike Babcock MSM Takes:
By TSM Well, here we are again. It's been a long time since we have had a large enough sports news issue that required a tour around the MSM to see w [...]

Happy Thanksgiving Turkey
by TSM Greetings and salutations from The Land! Brought the boy here to see the Seahawks take on the Brownies. Impressed again by the city and espec [...]

Was Auston Matthews Charged With Disorderly Conduct?
By TSM Hat tip to tweeter @mouradab who found this information online: The potential new captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs is to appear in an AZ cou [...]

Devlin & Grange Get Their Due; Small Change At TSN Radio
By TSM Congratulations to @michaelgrange and @Matt__Devlin, who have been named @SportsMediaCA 2019 Achievement Award recipients in sportswriting and [...]

Mitch Marner Saga Ends, Dreger Issues, Rosie Goes Rosie, Blue Jays Swan Song & More
By TSM Things I have been pondering while I contemplate how the Ontario government blew $42 million dollars selling weed: I am not sure you can watc [...]

TSM Pressbox, James Cybulski EA Sports NHL 2020
On this edition of the TSM Pressbox, James Cybulski and I talk about his career, moving from Toronto to Vancouver, the differences in the markets and [...]

Toronto Sports Media Summer Update
Is it true that as we get older summers seem to fly by faster or is it just the calendar is so full that we blink and it's gone? This is going to be [...]