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

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Jeff Douglas has been named as the new host of CBC Nova Scotia’s Mainstreet, the drive home show on CBC Radio One in...

The Weekly Briefing

RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: 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...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Jean La Rose and APTN, the network he’s helmed as CEO for the last 17 years, will part ways at the end of...

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  RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: 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...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Taylor Jukes has headed stateside to join iHeartRadio Miami and take up program director duties for WHYI-FM and Y100. Up until last November,...

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RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: Glacier Media Inc. has announced the sale of its interest in investment data and analytics firm Fundata Canada for $55 million, and its subsequent...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Brian Chisholm has retired from CBC Saint John after four decades in television. After graduating from Television Broadcasting at Fanshawe College in 1978,...

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RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: Stingray won multiple awards at the 2019 Worldwide Radio Summit on Mar. 29 in Burbank, CA, including International Broadcast Group of the Year. Steve...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Stacey Thompson is the host of a new cross-country, weekday evening show on Stingray’s The Breeze stations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Halifax. Hosted...

The Weekly Briefing

RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: Brian Madore is the winner of this year’s RTDNA Lifetime Achievement Award for the East Region. Madore, a 1980 graduate of the radio broadcasting...