The saying goes that you haven't worked in radio, until you've worked in Winnipeg. Personalities like Brother Jake Edwards, Terry DiMonte, Don Percy, and many others gathered June 12-14 for the Winnipeg Radio Reunion. It saw colleagues who’ve worked in the market, both past and present, reminisce and reconnect. Broadcast Dialogue caught up with organizer Ralph “Racoon” Carney – an alum of CKRC and 1290 AM (CFRW-AM) Winnipeg, among other stations - to talk about bringing the event to life. He sha...
Jun 25, 2025•21 min
This week on Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast , we’re joined by Jeffrey Maddox , President of Nokia Canada , as the company marks 40 years in Canada and the 100th anniversary of Nokia Bell Labs. Maddox reflects on the legacy of Bell Labs, from the invention of the transistor in 1947 to its foundational role in shaping modern communications and why he calls Nokia “the company that built Silicon Valley.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
Jun 23, 2025•19 min
“Tarzan Dan” Freeman has announced that he’ll be taking another leave of absence from his Bounce Radio midday show to undergo a stem cell bone marrow transplant. Freeman, who went public with his cancer diagnosis last September, has been undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma. Broadcast Dialogue caught up with Dan this week as he underwent a plasma transfusion to boost his immune system ahead of the transplant. He candidly shares the ups and downs of his cancer journey, which as you'll hear, ...
Jun 18, 2025•14 min
June is National Indigenous History Month . There are few audio programs that capture the spirit of the month more than Words and Culture , the Community Radio Fund of Canada -backed radio show and podcast, diving into Indigenous languages by sharing the stories of both knowledge keepers and those trying to reclaim their language and culture. Now in its second season, Kim Wheeler is the show's executive producer. If you don't know Kim, you know her writing and producing work, which includes the ...
Jun 11, 2025•25 min
Scott Fybush of NorthEast Radio Watch and the Top of the Tower Podcast in Rochester, New York joins this special crossover episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast. Fybush and I discuss our takeaways from Radiodays North America in Toronto, regulatory happenings on both sides of the border, and our mutual appreciation for the moment Alt Rock is having, among other news from the world of broadcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...
May 28, 2025•51 min
Departure Festival + Conference gets set to launch its debut edition May 6 - 11, in Toronto, a "reimagined" Canadian Music Week at the intersection of music, comedy, arts and tech. Randy Lennox , the co-founder and CEO of Loft Entertainment , joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast on the eve of the inaugural event to talk about their new venture with Oak View Group , and building on the CMW legacy, as Departure sets out to super-serve Canada's creative community. See Privacy Policy at https://ar...
Apr 30, 2025•24 min
We last spoke with Vista Radio President Bryan Edwards in February 2024 as the company announced it was set to acquire 21 stations from Bell Media in British Columbia as part of BCE's divestiture of 45 radio stations. More than one year later, Vista is now operating those stations, officially becoming the second largest radio group in the country. We welcome Bryan Edwards back to the podcast to talk about the ownership transition and major rebrand effort as those stations and their employees joi...
Apr 17, 2025•15 min
Gill Deacon's new Substack and podcast, A Love Affair with the Unknown , is all about saying yes to uncertainty. The former host of CBC Toronto afternoon show, Here and Now, who stepped away from radio last fall, joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about her journey to embracing uncertainty - something many of us in the media business can relate to, her Long COVID diagnosis and recovery, life at mid-life, and her advice to other broadcasters living in uncertain times. ...
Apr 08, 2025•30 min
When Bell Media announced a little more than one year ago that it was divesting 45 of its radio properties, some people were uncomfortable positioning the move as a positive shift for the industry, but family-owned and operated Whiteoaks Communications Group - which is acquiring four of the stations - is already presenting strong evidence that is the case. Whiteoaks, which is acquiring CKLH-FM Hamilton and CHRE-FM , CHTZ-FM and CKTB St. Catharines, is on a major hiring push in advance of the tak...
Mar 13, 2025•40 min
NAB Show returns to the Las Vegas Convention Centre, April 5-9, with this year's event bringing an expanded focus on hot topics like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on media and entertainment. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , we speak with the National Association of Broadcasters' EVP of Global Connections & Events, Karen Chupka , about what's new at this year's show, the potential impact of the U.S.-Canada trade war, and an increased desire to gather again i...
Mar 07, 2025•14 min
CBC News is launching a new primetime program in the midst of an unprecedented news cycle that has sparked a surge in demand for Canadian news. Veteran anchor Ian Hanomansing will helm Hanomansing Tonight - live from the West Coast - from 7 - 9 p.m. ET on CBC News Network and CBC Gem . Ian joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to give us a preview of the new program, and share his thoughts on the future of broadcast news, fighting public cynicism, and more. See Privacy Policy at...
Feb 14, 2025•39 min
Bob Kronbauer has built a career on his knowledge of B.C. history. The former publisher of Vancouver is Awesome , who struck out on his own as an independent content creator last year, is now the host of the newest addition to CHEK-TV's local programming lineup, Now You Know BC. Kronbauer, known to his followers as “BC Bob,” joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about transitioning his signature storytelling style from social media to television, his advice to other content creators in ...
Feb 08, 2025•22 min
Matt Hird, Senior Research Director at Signal Hill Insights, joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to share findings from the latest Canadian Podcast Listener survey. In his first-ever podcast appearance, Matt joins us to talk about the shifting listening landscape - from YouTube's epic growth as a podcast destination to the gender listening gap, where he thinks podcasting is headed, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Jan 24, 2025•18 min
CBC News General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about the public broadcaster's recently-announced resource expansion that will see up to 30 new journalists hired, set to be deployed to 22 communities - like St. Catherines, Banff, Fort McMurray, and B.C.'s North Island - where CBC currently does not have an established presence. Among other issues, Fenlon addresses audience fragmentation and CBC's push into the local news on-demand space; ...
Jan 17, 2025•26 min
On this year-end episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we sit down with our publisher Shawn Smith , the president of Momentum Media , to reflect on 2024 and his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for the broadcast industry in 2025. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Dec 19, 2024•24 min
2024 Canadian Radio Awards Winners - Connie Thiessen and Matt Cundill host the 2024 Canadian Radio Awards livestream. Thanks to our 2024 Category Sponsors - David Kaye, Kayeman Productions | leanStream | Community Radio Fund of Canada | Benztown | MusicMaster | Validate | Burli | vcreative | Broadcast Dialogue | Momentum Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Dec 06, 2024•54 min
Radio is still a cornerstone of many national media buys in Canada, but let’s be frank - it doesn’t deliver metrics that digital-first marketers are asking for. We gathered a group of heavy hitters from Canada’s biggest agencies to talk about the state of national radio ad sales and the challenges and opportunities for clients and broadcasters alike. Joining our publisher Shawn Smith on this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast are Canadian Broadcast Sales President Gerry MacKrell ; Omnic...
Dec 03, 2024•40 min
Arshy Mann and Jordan Cornish are among the Canadian journalists betting on themselves in the current media climate. Best known as the producers behind Canadaland’s COMMONS for the last six years and 13 seasons, Cornish and Mann are striking out on their own with new project, The Hatchet , a weekly podcast and newsletter launched on Substack , dedicated to exposing power and money in Canada. Arshy Mann joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about going independent, his un...
Dec 02, 2024•44 min
The radio industry has a measurement and attribution problem. Hundreds of millions of dollars have left broadcast for platforms owned by digital giants like Meta, Google , and Amazon , among others. Our publisher Shawn Smith hosts this special episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast featuring Warren Kurtzman , President of Coleman Insights , the new licensee of the Pattison Media -created Validate Audio Attribution software platform being used by Canadian, and now U.S. broadcasters. See Priv...
Nov 14, 2024•19 min
Creative professionals, including those of us in media, have become accustomed to hearing that our jobs may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence. Ronit Novak's new podcast The Grain is encouraging honest conversations in the creative community - from filmmakers to those in advertising, design and photography - about the impact of AI on their careers. She joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast from Made Human Studios in Toronto's Little Jamaica to talk about why creatives n...
Nov 06, 2024•54 min
$20 million dollars. That's how much in annual funding the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is lobbying for, making the case that in the wake of so much misinformation and under-resourced commercial stations, there's never been a better time to prop up the community radio sector. Executive Director Alex Freedman joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about the surge in interest in community radio licences, how the sector is meeting a need in news deserts, and the imp...
Oct 31, 2024•33 min
On Nov. 2, 1954, a 250-watt radio station signed on in Alberta, destined to become Canada's first full-time country music station. The C and the W in CFCW stood for Camrose-Wetaskiwin, which were encompassed in its 25-mile broadcasting radius. Now associated with Edmonton, as much as its rural listening stronghold, Alberta's Country Legend is celebrating 70 years, defying those that would assert that AM radio's best days are behind it. Longtime program director Jackie Rae Greening and creative w...
Oct 09, 2024•34 min
Tchadas Leo became the first Coast Salish journalist to anchor a news program on Coast Salish territory earlier this year. Leo, the winner of this year's RTDNA Canada Emerging Journalist Award , has been working with Victoria's CHEK Media since 2021, hosting the award-winning podcast and now television series Our Native Land , which explores all things Indigenous and First Nations on Vancouver Island. He joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about his media journey thus far, his commitm...
Oct 01, 2024•23 min
Village Media is getting into the business of social networking with the upcoming launch of Spaces , the digital publisher's localized community social platform that aims to give users a place to gather to discuss shared topics of interest from local sports to community history. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , Spaces Community Manager Lacy Atalick makes her podcast debut, talking about how Village Media plans to keep the toxicity that's been the downfall of other platforms ...
Sep 26, 2024•19 min
"Forging Ahead in Media's New Landscape" is the very timely theme of the upcoming Western Association of Broadcast Engineers (WABE) media and entertainment technology convention in Edmonton this month. WABE President Tessa Potter joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about what's in store for this year's gathering, her tech takeaways from Paris 2024 where she was part of the NBC broadcast team, and why she believes AI isn't coming for all of the broadcasting jobs. See Privacy Policy at ...
Sep 06, 2024•29 min
Canadaland Chief Operating Officer Alan Black makes his podcast guesting debut on the latest episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast. The former Managing Director of Hot Docs joins us to talk about his transition to podcasting, bringing more third-party content under the Canadaland umbrella, monetization, and why the organization wants to help be part of the solution to the journalism crisis. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...
Aug 23, 2024•27 min
"Canada vs. California: How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants" is Howard Law's recently-released deep dive into the story of the Online Streaming Act. The media policy blogger and contributor to our sister publication CARTT.ca , joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , to talk about his new book; why he's worried about the survival of Canadian broadcasters, specifically the future of television news; and what the media landscape could look like if there's a change of government in ...
Aug 16, 2024•27 min
Kolter Bouchard has undergone a reinvention this year, leaving his afternoon gig on 102.1 The Edge (CFNY-FM) in Toronto to move forward as a digital content creator, often in collaboration with his wife Dominque , amassing a following of more than 730,000 on TikTok alone. Kolter joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast , opening up about his time at Corus Toronto, their eventual parting of the ways, and working to overcome bitterness. We also get in to why he thinks radio talent is...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 26 min
For a second year in a row, NAB Show organizers chose a Sustainability Donation Honouree , an award singling out an outstanding not-for-profit. This year’s Honouree was the Canadian-based Sustainable Entertainment Society — the powerhouse behind the Sustainable Production Forum (SPF). Zena Harris , founder of the SPF, whose organization Green Spark Group is a foundational partner of the Society, and Executive Director Melanie Windle , join Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about the progr...
Aug 01, 2024•37 min
David Farrell was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award during Canadian Music Week (CMW) recognizing his more than five-decade career covering the music and broadcast industry. Farrell published industry publication The Record for 20 years, before co-founding FYI Music News , which was acquired by Billboard Canada last year. He joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about the ups and downs of writing about radio and records, the state of music journalism, and more. See Privacy Polic...
Jun 26, 2024•32 min
