Bleav in The Pressrow

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A special edition of the Pressrow. Howard Ovens has been in clinical emergency practice since 1982, and served as the Chief of our Department of Emergency Medicine for many years. He has been a leader in administrative and policy issues related to emergency medical services, and served on and led many regional, provincial and national committees. Howard has published and spoken nationally and inte...

Born in Toronto, raised near Kingston Adnan Virk career has taken him to some of the most respected sports outlets in the world. From Bollywood reports, failed weather interviews to TSN, MLSE, The Score and ESPN to present day, he has built an impressive brand for himself. A movie fanatic and movie podcaster who is a huge fan of the Philadelphia Flyers talks about growing up in Canada, trying to b...

In this episode of Bleav in the Pressrow, Alex Reimer joins Jonah Sigel. From the age of 12, alex had a thing for sports media. In fact he had a blog and podcast back in 2004! How popular was it? He was a guest on the Today Show and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Alex is an amazing journalist who covers sports in the new business era. While he was (in)famous for a comment on Tom Brady he know cov...

For over 55 years Dave Hodge was played an integral role in sports broadcasting. Dave was the long time host of Hockey Night in Canada, TSN's Inside Sports, That's Hockey and The Reporters. From Gordie Howe all the way to the modern day. Print, radio, TV, live audience and now podcast. Dave has done it all. Dave shares stories that span his career. From early days as a sports writer, a sports radi...

For over 45 years John Shannon has been involved in sports media. John has worked for the NHL, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and was Executive Producer of Hockey Night in Canada. John was a frequent guest on Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown as well as a co-host too. John knows the x's and o's of broadcast sports as well as the business side of things as well. John and Jonah talk about the A...

Long time sports reporter David Shoalts joins Jonah Sigel in the Pressrow. David talks about how he got started in media, covering the Arizona Coyotes trial, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the effect of the Rogers deal on the media landscape, Bill Houston, Bob McCown, his love of OverDrive, Don Cherry and his involvement in the David Frost saga. David Shoalts started his career as journalist in 1979 con...

Since 1999 Steve Rapp has been a fixture on the radio talking sports gambling. He is one of the few who has lasted through the old days of making picks on Sunday mornings to where sports betting is now legalized in the United States in general and in over 20 US States. Jonah and Steve talk about the early days of sports handicapping from Jimmy The Greek, those Friday afternoon radio guests screami...

One of the longest serving, active members of the press covering golf, Bob Weeks joins Jonah in the Pressrow. Bob Weeks reports on both golf and curling for. He was the editorial director of SCORE Golf magazine. He also served as host for SCORE Golf TV. Bob covered Curling for more than 25 years for the Globe and Mail . Jonah and Bob talk about Kobe Bryant and golf and how it is that professional...

Jamie McLennan played over 250 games in the NHL as a goalie, he has played in Canada, the United States, Japan and Russia.  He has been on TSN providing color commentary and as a co-host on OverDrive the afternoon drive show on TSN’s 1050 drive home show.   Jamie talks about playing in the NHL, … Continued See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art...

In this episode of Bleav In the Pressrow, former NHL player Zach Boychuck joins Jonah Sigel.  Zach talks about playing on two Gold Championship World Junior teams, one of which he was an Alternate Captain, playing for Pat Quinn and Pete DeBoer. Zach talks about playing for Bill Peters, dealing with the media and his … Continued See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...

In this episode, Jonah is joined by Nelson Millman.  Nelson has over 40 years of radio management experience including serving as the Program Director of the Fan 590.  There are few around in the media business with more experience than Nelson.  Nelson and Jonah discuss the role of the PD on radio, what a typical … Continued See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

On this episode, Jonah speaks with renowned Toronto attorney Gord Kirke.  Gord was the attorney/agent for Eric Lindros, Rick Nash, Brett the Hit Man Hart, Bob McCown, Nick Kypreos, Michael Landsberg, Tim and Sid and many, many more.  On this episode Jonah and Gord talk about naming the Toronto Blue Jays, Brett the Hitman Hart, … Continued See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...

In the first-ever podcast, Jonah Sigel is joined by Steve McAllister the President of the Sports Media Canada and the former head of public relations for the National Hockey League Players Association.  Jonah and Steve talk about the firing of Don Cherry, the most famous hockey broadcaster in the world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19....