Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast

Like a lot of legacy publications, The Canadian Jewish News has had its ups and downs in the new digital reality, even facing closure at one point. But the pandemic has spurred a digital-first rebirth of the publication that includes a revamped podcast network focused on telling uniquely Jewish Canadian stories. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we welcome Michael Fraiman , Exe...

After parting ways with Sportsnet Radio earlier this year, this was supposed to be the summer of Dave Cadeau ...but the Hamilton Tiger Cats had other ideas. Cadeau, the former Director of Programming for Sports Radio at Rogers Sports & Media, has been recruited as the Executive Producer of the new Ti-Cats Audio Network - an in-house content machine super-serving fans with daily and game day pr...

Dielectric has changed how FM broadcast antenna manufactures validate directional pattern studies for new FM broadcast antennas. The company's groundbreaking research has resulted in the recent FCC filing of a Petition for Rulemaking, written with leading broadcast consultancy, Merrill Weiss Group , and expected to be approved this fall. The new rule paves the way for the first directional FM patt...

On Sept. 30th, the 7th annual International Podcast Day will celebrate the medium, but this year - instead of hosting a round-the-clock livestream featuring hundreds of podcasters from around the globe, the event's founders are turning the day back over to the podcast community. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we talk to International Podcast Day co-founder Dave Lee on how yo...

In the three-channel universe most Canadian kids in the 1970s grew up in, Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a weekend morning staple. From its wacky pacing to the lyrical monologues of legend Vincent Price , and memorable characters like The Count, Igor, and Grizelda The Ghastly Gourmet, the CHCH Hamilton series - shot over just nine months in 1971 - has established a cult following. This week,...

NAB Show , the largest media and entertainment industry convention in the world, is one of the first large-scale events to return in-person, Oct. 9-13 in Las Vegas. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we talk to Chris Brown , the National Association of Broadcasters' Vice President and Managing Director of Global Connections and Events, on the challenges of staging the show amid...

In this sponsored episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, NewTek Sales Engineer Chris Burgos talks about IP Video Technology and how it provides every storyteller a voice through video.  Burgos also touches on what’s happening in live production, what the future looks like, and how you can find out how to evolve your workflows and improve the quality of your output.    Sign up...

Wayne Harrett , who founded Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia community radio station Seaside FM in 2002, lost a lengthy battle with cancer earlier this month. This episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast is for anyone who has been told they don't have a voice for or a future in radio, because Harrett didn't let that stop him from starting and growing his own station, fuelled by his sheer passion f...

You'd be hard pressed to find two more recognizable Canadian rock radio personalities than Brother Jake Edwards and Gerry Forbes . Both 2019 inductees into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame ,  Dean Blundell has now brought the mega duo together under the banner of his podcast network where they aim to revive the edgy style they built their careers on without the limitations of terr...

BANFF World Media Festival's Spark Accelerator for Women in the Business of Media recently released a whitepaper looking at how the past 18 months have impacted the media sector, tapping the expertise of more than 50 experts and executives, to identify new opportunities for the screen-based industries in a time of accelerated change. On this episode of the podcast, we talk to BANFF Executive Direc...

When the team behind independent documentary The New Corporation went to market the film last year, they were rejected by Twitter for promotion on the platform for quote "political," "sensitive" and "inappropriate" content. The film's co-director, writer and producer happens to be UBC law professor Joel Bakan , who is now taking Twitter and the Canadian government to court arguing that because of...

By day, Randy Jacobs is a veteran producer and voiceover talent at Corus Radio in Vancouver. In Jacob's off hours, his alter ego RC Weslowski is an award-winning slam poetry champion, spoken word artist and community arts organizer. We welcome him to this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about his love for all things spoken word and audio, and his newly-released book of poetry "...

Kelly&Kelly is one of the best known Canadian creative content studios you've probably never heard of.  Specializing in comedy, its Vancouver-based team has worked behind-the-scenes on podcasts and other projects with names like Celeste Barber, Anna Faris , and Rainn Wilson , in addition to The New York Times, CBC and Al Jazeera .  On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast...

On this special, sponsored episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we talk to Brian Olson, Vizrt's Sales Director, U.S. Group Stations, about visual storytelling in the remote production age. Vizrt offers software-based solutions for real-time 3D graphics, video playout, studio automation, sports analysis, media asset management, and journalist story tools that aim to master complexity and m...

Indigenous Day Live is one of APTN's flagship broadcasts. This year, the challenges of staging the event while much of the country was in lockdown has resulted in a multi-city remote production spanning stages in Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Dartmouth, N.S., featuring performers from icon Buffy Saint-Marie to Kitimat hip hop artists Snotty Nose Rez Kids .    On this episode o...

Pre-Covid, Manitoba's film and television industry was booming. Ian Dimerman of Inferno Pictures is hoping to get some of that momentum back with the opening of Big Sky Studios later this year - a full service production hub located on a nine-acre property that was formerly the headquarters of disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard . Dimerman, who is in the midst of production on forthcoming CBC and...

California-based intellectual property broker and producer Storied Media Group (SMG) recently turned its eye north of the border, signing Canadaland as a client . With over 150 projects sold since 2013, SMG specializes in curating stories based on original journalism, podcasts and video games - from publishers like the Washington Post, NPR and the New York Times - and marketing those stories to fi...

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, our publisher Shawn Smith talks with Susie Hedrick,  CEO of vCreative , one of the industry’s leading broadcast workflow software providers. Hedrick talks about the recent evolution of the company, their new offering for television workflow, and about being the right solution at the right time during COVID-19.  See Privacy Policy at ht...

With the pandemic accelerating remote production, Shawn Snider , Ross Video's Vice-President of Production Workflow and Cloud Services, is our guest on this sponsored episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast. Snider speaks with Stuart Russell on the advantages of cloud-based solutions, the future of the live production industry, and challenges to be overcome.   See Privacy Policy at https:...

Dean Blundell and Matt Cundill are merging . The two veteran broadcasters' respective podcasting ventures, DeanBlundell.com and the Sound Off Podcast Network , are sharing resources moving forward on analytics, marketing and monetization, to help independent content creators and collaborators like Darrin Pfeiffer  of  Goldfinger,   MuchMusic icon Erica Ehm, and former Edmonton news...

Overstory Media Group (OMG) launched this week, a new independent digital news publisher that has its eye on expanding its network of community-based e-newsletters nationally.  Behind Victoria-based OMG is Farhan Mohamed , former Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the Daily Hive , and tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson who founded Victoria's Capital Daily in 2019 - a daily newsletter, podcast an...

It's like Andrew Cash's whole life has led up to his new role as the president of the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA). With roots in the Toronto punk scene before going on to a successful solo career and eventually getting elected as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Davenport, Cash has long been an advocate not just for independent musicians, but anyone trying to make a living in...

Those working in broadcasting, advertising and marketing already have high levels of stress, so for many - COVID-19 restrictions, thousands of subsequent job losses, and juggling work from home with child care compounded existing day-to-day challenges. As Louise Berube puts it - there are two pandemics underway - one is COVID-19, the other is mental health. Berube works with NABS - one of the best...

Los Angeles-based voiceover artist Jeff Rechner had a career in Canadian radio before moving stateside and carving out a niche for himself voicing everything from commercials and cartoons to acting as the show announcer for upcoming NBC game show "Small Fortune." He's our guest on Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast talking about the evolution of his voiceover career, why your own marketing is vital,...

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) annually recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding lifetime contribution to journalism in Canada. This year's honouree is Dan David .  Hailing from Kanehsatà:ke, among other achievements, David was the founding news director of APTN , has worked across the country with CBC Radio and Television, and has trained journalists abroad in Indonesia...