Tag: Radio

All things Radio from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.

How ‘Seeing Is Believing’ Drives Success For SDS

As SDS continues to innovate, adding new components to their top-ranked broadcast software, a consistent ‘old school’ truth becomes ever more apparent. Nothings beats a...

Radio Trailblazers pay tribute to Evanov Radio Group’s Carmela Laurignano

The Radio Trailblazers gathered at Toronto’s Rosewater Room on Tuesday night, in conjunction with Canadian Music Week. The volunteer organization celebrates and supports women...

Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: Dr. Jada Watson on the widening...

Gender Representation on Country Format Radio, a new study from the University of Ottawa’s Dr. Jada Watson, and the first to examine Mediabase data, finds that...

Slaight, Waters come forward with matching funds to ‘Bring Gord Kidder...

As radio sales veteran Gord Kidder remains in a coma in the Czech Republic, the broadcast community is rallying to raise funds to have...

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...

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...

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...

WAB names Boyd Kozak and Bob Ridley to Hall of Fame

Longtime Winnipeg radio personality Boyd Kozak and Bob Ridley, sports director at CHAT 94.5 FM Medicine Hat, have been announced as this year's inductees...

Vancouver’s Co-op Radio proof activism can be financially viable

Situated in the heart of one of Canada's most-challenged urban communities is one of the country's most successful community radio stations, Vancouver's Co-op Radio. Started...

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...