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Don Shafer on the road to reinvention

Roundhouse Radio was Don Shafer's dream, so coming up on the first anniversary of the independent Vancouver station's closure last May, the Canadian Broadcast...

Podcast listening fuelled by sharing: Canadian Podcast Listener

With podcasters competing for their share of the audio space in an increasingly crowded landscape (there are now 700,000 podcasts available worldwide), findings from...

Nielsen to add 200 new Canadian stations to BDSradio metrics platform

Nielsen Music has extended its relationship with SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) to remain the exclusive provider of detailed...

Radio & Podcast News – Rogers acquiring Pacific Content

  Rogers has announced it’s acquiring Vancouver-based branded podcast company Pacific Content. Launched in 2015 by co-founders Steve Pratt, Chris Boyce, and Jennifer Ouano, who...

Fitzroy Gordon, founder of G98.7 Toronto, dead at 65

Fitzroy Gordon, the founder and CEO of G98.7 (CKFG-FM) Toronto, who is credited with bringing radio reflective of the city's Caribbean community to the...

Rogers acquires podcast company Pacific Content

Rogers has announced it's acquiring Vancouver-based branded podcast company Pacific Content. Launched in 2015 by co-founders Steve Pratt, Chris Boyce, and Jennifer Ouano, who are...

Radio & Podcast News – gofundme fundraiser underway for broadcast sales veteran Gord Kidder

Gord Kidder, a partner in Muskoka Information Radio (CIIG-FM) Gravenhurst, ON, remains in hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. A gofundme account has raised over...

Radio & Podcast News – 2019 Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame inductees announced

Guy Brouillard, Gerry Forbes, and Brother Jake Edwards are the 2019 inductees of the Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. They’ll be honoured during Canadian...

Evanov Radio Group VP Carmela Laurignano winner of 2019 Rosalie Award

Carmela Laurignano, vice-president and Radio Group Manger at Evanov Radio Group (ERG), has been named as this year's winner of the 2019 Rosalie Award. Handed...

Radio and music industry veteran Bobby Gale killed

Radio and music industry veteran Bobby Gale died Friday night following a highway accident on his way home from a concert in Montreal. Gale, who...

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