Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast

The Steele and Vance Show is set to launch this fall on CHEK TV , which will see veteran radio and television broadcasters Lynda Steele and Jody Vance pair up to take on the issues of the day in primetime every week. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, Steele and Vance give us a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the new show. We also talk about Jody's five-year struggle...

It's been just over a year since Kelowna’s 103.9 The Lake (CKOV-FM) was launched . Helmed by former Clear Sky Radio  President  Paul Larsen , the station - under its former ownership was branded as Soft 103.9 - and one of the early casualties of the pandemic. Now, with a year of operation under its belt, we talk to Larsen about the ups and downs of being a stand-alone owner in a hig...

With all of the discussion about increasing representation of marginalized communities over the past few years, AMI   (Accessible Media Inc.) wondered why the disability community wasn't being included in that conversation.  It recently announced the launch of the Disability Screen Office (DSO), in conjunction with the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Telefilm . Broadcast Dialogue - The Podca...

During the last few years in media and marketing, many workers in their fifties found themselves unemployed for the first time as the pandemic took hold and they were among the first to be packaged out. NABS is now re-offering its course for those at midlife wondering what to do next, based on Julia Moulden's book, RIPE: Rich, Rewarding Work After 50. We welcome Julia to this episode of the podcas...

It's not often media outlets announce they're hiring in the current climate, but CBC News has started recruiting for 14 new permanent positions, focused in small and medium sized markets like Nanaimo, Cranbrook, Grande Prairie, Kingston and the North. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome Susan Marjetti, General Manager of News, Current Affairs & Local, for CBC to ta...

8K, the high resolution successor to 4K, has in some ways been one of the technological casualties of the pandemic with its adoption abated in the consumer rush to buy new 4K screens over the last few years. 8K televisions are expected to account for just three per cent of Ultra HD TV sales next year. You've probably already seen films shot in 8K like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and 2020 black...

The vast majority of UHF North American broadcast antennas today are slotted cylinder pylon antennas, which offer benefits including smaller tower footprints, fewer parts, lower windload and superior pattern flexibility. Unfortunately for radio broadcasters, their narrow bandwidth characteristics were impractical for passing full-band FM signals.   Just in time for the 2022 NAB Show and the c...

After more than two decades on-air together, Clay St. Thomas and Karen Daniels are ending an epic run co-hosting mornings on Pattison Media -owned JR Country (CJJR-FM) in Vancouver, going out on top as the #1 music station in the market. Clay & Karen join us on Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast ahead of the show's retirement to reflect on their longevity, what makes a successful on-air duo work...

Wil Lee , like a lot of us, was skeptical about NFTs when he first heard about them...but less than a year after creating his own NFT collection, the littles , the Vancouver entrepreneur has struck a deal with TIME Studios to create an original children's series based on his IP. We welcome Wil to this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about his meteoric success in the space, and...

Canadian Music Week (CMW) makes its in-person comeback June 11-16 in Toronto as the gathering that brings together music, business and broadcast, marks its 40th anniversary this year, albeit with a pared down format as live music and non-essential travel just begin to return after a devastating two years. We're joined on Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast by CMW President Neill Dixon and CEO Danya D...

Gord Steinke is arguably one of the best known media personalities in Edmonton, but it's not as well known that he has serious street cred as a musician, starting his career touring with bands out of Saskatchewan and Ontario before deciding to pursue journalism. The RTDNA Lifetime Achievement Award honouree just celebrated his 30th anniversary with Global News . He joins us on this episode of Broa...

CJNE-FM The Storm and CITJ-FM Core Country in Nipawin, SK are up for sale. Owners Norm and Treana Rudock have spent two decades owning and operating the stations, but are now about to retire. They spoke with our publisher Shawn Smith on Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast about serving a fast-growing community and following their passion for radio.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priva...

Last weekend, a number of camera crews covering the Pacific Highway border crossing protest, south of Vancouver, were swarmed, jostled, yelled at and spit on - one of many such incidents that's happened across the country over the last few weeks that is changing the way journalists are doing their jobs in an effort to "blend in" where possible. In Metro Vancouver, ongoing protests have also been c...

Carol Off will co-host her final episode of CBC Radio's   As It Happens on Friday, Feb. 25. After an estimated 25,000 interviews, the former foreign correspondent leaves the show as its longest-serving host to move on to other projects. We're pleased to welcome Carol to this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast where the venerable host talks about everything from her early influences a...

The Joe Rogan Experience continues to be the biggest podcast globally on Spotify - and consistently the most listened to show in Canada, despite the recent misinformation controversy that motivated artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to demand removal of their catalogues from the streamer and prompted Spotify to jettison more than 40 episodes of JRE from the platform. Signal Hill Insights de...

Rogers Sports & Media's Star 95.9 has made its debut in Calgary, accompanied by a playlist tweak from the former CHFM , with a goal of boosting the mood of listeners as the Adult Contemporar y format - once king in the workplace - now finds itself competing with limitless options in the work from home space. The station also marks a milestone by introducing the market's first female-led mornin...

You probably know Dave Trafford and daughter Erin Trafford from their work in news/talk radio and television news. The father-daughter duo is now part of the growing number of former media who've moved into podcasting, collaborating on the Story Studio Network , a podcast production and branded content studio they co-founded last May. Dave and Erin join this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Pod...

In this sponsored episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , Tieline Technical Sales Associate Jacob Daniluck discusses The Gateway 4 , a powerful DSP-based 1RU IP codec designed for live remote broadcasting applications, as well as STL or SSL links. The Gateway 4 enables transport of multiple channels of mono or stereo audio across the public internet or any QoS-enabled IP network, including T...

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast we welcome Julie Adam , President of News & Entertainment at Rogers Sports & Media , and first-time author to talk about her new book, Imperfectly Kind: Why Kindness Is The Must-Have Superpower You Need To Lead . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

On our year-end podcast, we usually focus on the newsmakers in the broadcast, podcast, tech and streaming space...but this year Broadcast Dialogue and our parent company, Momentum Media Marketing , are closing the year with a huge internal move as James Wallace , the digital strategist who has been the backbone of the company for the last 12 years, returns to the agency world.   We're happy t...

A lot of you listening love to have a love-hate relationship with Twitter , but 2021 was a big year for the social platform and its Canadian operation. Twitter Canada substantially scaled up at its Toronto office with the app also rolling out an ambitious series of product updates ranging from newsletters to social audio, safety features, and a subscription tier...not to mention that since we reco...

Hilary Brown knew she wanted to be a foreign correspondent when there were no women on the job. She ended up becoming the first female foreign correspondent for ABC News, reporting from trouble-spots around the globe from the early 1970s onward for more than 35 years, filing from every continent except Antarctica. From Vietnam - where she was one of the last journalists to be lifted by h...

Q101 (CKMQ-FM) Merritt is a small Pattison Media -owned station in B.C.'s Nicola Valley. With a staff of just three, the radio station is the only broadcast media outlet located in the community that was evacuated Nov. 15 after torrential rain that triggered flooding and mudslides in the region. Those evacuations included Q101 which is continuing to carry on operations from sister station B100 (CK...

South Asian broadcasting trailblazer  Shushma Datt will be recognized at the upcoming  Jack Webster Foundation Awards with the 2021 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award , which honours an exemplary B.C. journalism career. Datt, who faced significant racism from mainstream media, persevered and started her own 24-hour South Asian radio station on a sub-carrier frequency, later becom...

Women in Film and Television - Canada Coalition (WIFT-CC) in conjunction with Reel Families for Change, has released the results of its Family Care Report —a cross-Canada survey highlighting how the pandemic has compounded child care challenges for women in film. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome Reel Families' Heather and Sean McQuillan and the report's author, Susa...