Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast

It's been a few years since the Canadian Screen Awards took place in front of a live audience, but in a few weeks Canadian Screen Week makes its in-person return with seven awards shows celebrating Canada's screen media and the talent behind it, culminating in a star-studded broadcast special on CBC on April 16, hosted by comedian Samantha Bee . Tammy Frick , CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema...

Over the last number of years, RTDNA Canada's membership had dwindled to just over 100 members as newsrooms tighten budgets and freeze travel for news directors. However, under the leadership of current president Lis Travers , numbers have rebounded over the last few months as the association looks to evolve with the industry.  Travers joins us on this episode to talk about the RTDNA's aggres...

Jeff Elgie is the CEO of Village Media , a growing network of more than two dozen local news sites that run on the Sault Ste. Marie company's proprietary content management system that it also licenses to other publishers. In this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , Elgie takes us inside the company's business model and its recent push into Queen's Park, in addition to touching on some h...

Radiodays North America will make its debut in Toronto, June 8-9. Replacing the long-running Radio Active conference that's historically taken place during Canadian Music Week , CMW has patnered with Radiodays Europe to bring the conference brand to North America. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome Ross Davies, one of the leads on the Radiodays North America steering...

Rick Lewchuk , who most recently served as Senior Vice President, Creative Marketing and Brand Standards for  CNN Worldwide , has unveiled his new firm  Film at 11 Marketing , providing coaching for news, sports, and entertainment marketers. For over a decade, Lewchuk oversaw on-air and off-channel brand and marketing for all CNN Worldwide businesses including  CNN, CNN Internationa...

There are few modern radio programs in the storytelling genre that have resonated with audiences like The Vinyl Cafe. Hosted by the late Stuart McLean, the long-running CBC Radio show, aired from 1994 to 2016, in addition to public radio in the U.S. and UK. For the first time, The Vinyl Cafe's longtime producer Jess Milton is sharing behind-the-scenes stories from her 15 years working on and touri...

The Canada Media Fund  (CMF) has released its 11th annual  Key Trends Report , exploring how the screen-based industries might evolve in the coming years, including where advertising, viewer habits, and media technology are headed.  On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome the CMF's Richard Koo, VP, Analytics & Strategic Insights, and Florence Girot,...

Tessa Potter , President of WABE (Western Association of Broadcast Engineers) - the first woman to lead the volunteer organization - joins us on this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about the state of broadcast engineering, the challenges of training the next generation, the importance of industry connection, and plans for WABE's upcoming conference in Vancouver this fall. See...

After two years of virtual events, the Canadian Media Producers Association's Prime Time , Canada's pre-eminent conference for media production, broadcasting, distribution and media policy, makes its in-person return, Feb. 1-3 in Ottawa. Andrew Addison, CMPA's Vice-President of Communications, Marketing & Membership, joins us on this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about Pr...

The current reality is that it's harder than ever to do investigative journalism amidst a broken freedom of information system and tight resources, in the shadow of bigger-than-ever crisis PR machines.   The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) has launched in Canada aimed at helping change that with the introduction of a series of searchable databases tracking political donations,...

If you attended Ontario Association of Broadcasters Connection '22 , you may have taken in the first panel of this year's conference, The Wizards of Aus , looking at the moment of resurgence radio is having in Australia. Part of that growth is attributed to Boomtown - a collaboration between Southern Cross Austereo, Prime Media Group, WIN Network, Australian Community Media, Imparja, ARN, News Cor...

While the issue of CanCon quotas is contentious, CKIQ-FM Iqaluit recently took the bold step of revamping its format to an all-Canadian playlist. The move, in part, was in response to a previous CRTC violation for failing to meet Canadian Content quotas because of challenges presented by the MAPL formula, which determines how Canadian or un-Canadian a song is, regardless of whether it's recorded b...

Earlier this year, ACTRA Toronto undertook a survey looking at the extreme vocal work that video games are now demanding of voice actors. It found roughly 40% of members asked almost always experience vocal fatigue or stress during such a voiceover session with another 20% finding it hard to recover vocally. In response to those concerns, University of Cincinnati Professor of Voice D'Arcy Smith ha...

Matt Cundill introduces this special edition of the podcast recapping our 2022 Broadcast Dialogue Canadian Radio Awards winners announcement. Matt & Broadcast Dialogue Editor Connie Thiessen are joined by winners Rob Seguin, Wendy Duff, Adele Newton, Stu Jeffries, Troy McCallum, and jurors Randy Reid and ChiChi Liu. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

The Ontario Association of Broadcasters (OAB) Connection '22 came back with a bang as it returned in-person for the first time since 2019. If there was a theme that emerged this year, it's that radio, in particular, is faced with more uncertainty than ever amid audience and advertising pressures and questions around a changing regulatory landscape. In spite of all that, there was a measured level...

The Ontario Association of Broadcasters  (OAB)  CONNECTION 2022 conference makes its hotly-anticipated in-person return, Oct. 18-19. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we're joined by Jody Brooker , this year's OAB Conference Chair, to talk about the industry's appetite to get back to the business of networking, programming a conference for a post-pandemic world, and m...

In part two of this sponsored series on Validate Audio Attribution , Andrew Snook , Director of Digital at Pattison Media , talks about the development and tech behind their new radio advertising attribution platform.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Broadcast Dialogue Canadian Radio Awards are back for a third year and open to submissions until Monday, Oct. 17. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, our editor Connie Thiessen and Canadian Radio Awards administrative lead James Wallace answer your questions and offer tips on how to submit an entry that will make an impact with the jury. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...

One of the challenges of radio sales in the digital area is validating the effectiveness of radio advertising with quantifiable data. Pattison Media has developed new game-changing tech platform, Validate , which it eyes as an industry-wide solution for radio, developed by radio people. Pattison is partnering with Momentum Media Marketing , the parent company of Broadcast Dialogue , to bring Valid...

On this special sponsored edition of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , Dielectric President Keith Pelletier discusses a variety of exciting new technologies being offered to TV and FM broadcasters in North America and worldwide. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Over 600 college radio stations in more than 45 countries will celebrate World College Radio Day on Friday, Oct. 7. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome the event's founder Dr. Rob Quicke. You'd be hard pressed to find someone more passionate about college radio or with more street cred in the space as one of the students who helped launch the UK's first-ever FM college...

Arguably one of the biggest radio stunts of the last decade happened earlier this summer with the launch of Rogers Sports & Media's SONiC RADiO format in Metro Vancouver. A stunt that saw Rage Against The Machine's polarizing track Killing in the Name enable the transition from the former KiSS format. In the 30-hour space between, the ensuing theories about why went viral, covered by outl...

The latest Infinite Dial Canada survey was released last month revealing that Canada is leading podcast listening. Broadcast Dialogue welcomes Stephanie Donovan , Global Head of Revenue, at Triton Digital to the podcast to dive into current audio listening trends, including how smart speaker growth is driving listening habits, the revenue opportunities presented, and why this year's Infinite Dial...

Belief It or Not, Teach Me How to Adult, You Made Me Queer, and Bites and Bits are just a handful of the podcasts nominated for Canadian Podcast Awards this year. The 5th annual awards are now open for voting to Canadian podcasters. Broadcast Dialogue caught up with John Leschinski , Chair of Podcamp Toronto , which is behind the CPAs. On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the nominees, th...

Nancy Regan is best-known for her 15-year hosting stint on highly-rated ATV/CTV Atlantic supper-hour lead-in Live at 5 ...a job she literally fell into after university. Growing up in the spotlight as the daughter of Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan , she found herself addicted to approval, which compounded a lifelong struggle with perfectionism. Regan is the author of new book, From Showing Off t...