EPISODES

Life with the Connected Car

You have heard all about the connected car and threats of its arrival. Well It's here. Radio is disappearing from the car dash board and...

Making the Trip Back to Fort Mac

Our very first podcast episode featured Andrew Wilcox and what it was like to leave a radio station behind. We catch up with Andrew and...

Broadcast Dialogue about Broadcast Dialogue

Shawn Smith is the founder of Momentum Marketing in Vancouver. He is also the new publisher at Broadcast Dialogue, the venerable magazine...

Unlimited Milkman with Milkman Unlimited

Since the mid-'90s, John Mielke has been the guy behind the digital home for radio in Canada. The Milkman Unlimited website has undergone...

Happy New Year! Summer is Over!

The unofficial start to our new year is actually the Monday after Labour Day. Kids head back to school, and families go back to their...

Show Me The (Podcast) Money

There are days when it feels like the gold rush. The hunt for money in the new frontier of streaming, podcasting and just about anything...

How to go from Good Guests, Bad Guests, to Great Guests

Jessica Rhodes books guests for podcasts. Think of her a matchmaker between podcasters and guests. You've heard the expression, it takes...

Radio Innovation or the Lack Thereof

It was at 9:11am at The Conclave Radio Learning Conference when the question was asked: "Name something your station has done in the last...

The Podcast Movement Recap and Show Prep

This week I give you my take on the Podcast Movement and do a little Remedial Media about podcasting and its future. I also mentioned...

Conclave 41: The Highlights

Thursday and Friday, many fine broadcasters from across North America, gathered at the 2016 Conclave Learning Conference in Minneapolis...

The Podcast Movement is Indeed a Thing

I spent last week in Chicago at the Podcast Movement. A little under a year ago, I was going fishing with my cousin, Kingman Gordon who...

Todd Hancock's Transition from Radio to Podcast

Todd Hancock was a fixture on Vancouver radio for 14 years before being restructured out of his job in June 2014. Todd was offered a few...

Update from Head Office

I am looking forward to the next few weeks which will be full of meeting great people, working on projects and having conversations about...

The Goodbye to Radio Girl

Kate McCallum and Adam Doolittle were let go from their radio jobs in the spring of 2015. Overworked and exhausted, the couple made the...

Jeff Woods and his new book Radio Records & Rockstars

Jeff Woods, who has long been the voice of classic rock in Canada, has released a brand new book called Radio, Records, & Rockstars. I...

Radio Ratings Results Still Keep Me Up at Night

Last Tuesday night I couldn't get to sleep. Not by 1am or 2am or 3am. By 4am I had to ask what's wrong? After a period of reconnecting...

The Importance of Responding to your Listeners

My first day in radio was a Sunday morning in a 50,000 person market. I was nervous but excited to get on the air and crank out those...

Andrew Wilcox on Fleeing the Fort McMurray Fires.

Andrew Wilcox is the program director at Cruz 100.5 in Fort McMurray. He tells the story of what it is was like to run the station while...

Jumping Into Voiceover

Up until two years ago, I had worked inside a radio station since I was 18 years old; most recently as a program director. I had always...

The Taxi Industry Needs a History Lesson

[Note: This was originally written for Mytoba.ca back on May 3rd] The first industry to feel the effects of the digital revolution was...