Guests
Sept. 25, 2018
Fred Jacobs: 35 Years of Jacobs Media
Fred Jacobs was a guest on Episode 53 in a preview to the Broadcasters Meet Podcasters sessions at Podcast Movement in 2017. I have always wanted to do an episode where we looked back at the evolution of his company and a twe...
Sept. 19, 2018
Larry Gifford: When Life Gives You Parkinson’s
Larry Gifford has Parkinson's. On his Radio Stuff Podcast last April, Larry announced that he had Parkison's Disease. If you get the chance, please give that episode a listen. Larry is known to many through his time at ESPN in Bristol, 710 ESPN in LA, KIRO in Seattle, or from his most recent home a…
Sept. 11, 2018
Jason Barrett: Cheers to Three Years of Barrett Sports Media
Jason Barrett celebrated the third anniversary of Barrett Sports Media last week, and we have an annual podcast chat to talk about the state of Sports Radio. After three years of doing anything, you have entrenched yourself into the landscape well enough to speak reflectively, so I asked him about …
Sept. 5, 2018
Matt Sutton Comes From the Land Down Under
Matt Sutton comes from Australia. There was a time when having people with funny accents was novelty. Then it became common place. With the advent of Youtube, Facebook and people consuming their media globally, it's not a thing anymore. In 2012, I had the delight of bringing Matt to Canada as we la…
Aug. 28, 2018
James Cridland: Radio Futurologist
Matt Cundill speaks with Radio Futurist James Cridland about radio, podcast discovery and more.
Aug. 21, 2018
Jonathan West: Getting Down to Some Real Talk
Matt catches up with his pal Jonathan West about radio and have more than an honest conversation.
Aug. 14, 2018
Logan Anderson Says the Damn Score
Matt talks to Logan Anderson, host of the Say the Damn Score Podcast.
Aug. 7, 2018
Jonny Staub: Through the Out Door
Matt talks to Virgin Radio Vancouver's Jonny Staub about morning radio and coming out.
July 31, 2018
Ryan Wrecker: Overnight America
Ryan Wrecker hosts Overnight America on 1120AM KMOX in St. Louis. It has been the radio home of the St. Louis Cardinals since the mid 50's when Jack Buck became synonymous with both the team, and radio station across North America. Remember, the signal would carry for miles from Canada to Mexico, e…
July 24, 2018
Siriusly Sarah Burke
Matt chats with his good friend Sarah Burke about music, interviewing bands and life in London... Ontario.
July 17, 2018
Inside Dave Beasing
Matt Speaks with former Program Director of Sound 100.3 in Los Angeles Dave Beasing.
July 10, 2018
Melz on the MIC: Living Local & Social
Melz on the MIC is the Assistant Program Director and midday host (12p-3p) at 103.1 Kiss FM in Killeen, Texas. Melz posted a picture of a newspaper article with the headline, "Local Man Gives Up Career to Pursue Job as a Radio DJ". After doing some listening, it was apparent that Melz had a lot mor…
July 3, 2018
Gruff Gushnowski: Nothing to Hide
Gruff Gushnowski has been living life openly and honestly for the last three and a half years. If you following him on social media, he can be uncomfortably candid about his postings, and he revealed in this week's show about how helpful it has been. We explored his radio career which has been set …
June 26, 2018
Jax Loves This Town
Jaclyn Irwin from Kiss 92.5 Toronto and Kiss 91.7 in Edmonton. She joins me to talk about her early influences in radio and growing up Dartmouth. Yes, we both agree that Dartmouth, N.S. gets a bad wrap for no apparent reason. We talked about what inspired her to go into radio, what it takes to be r…
June 19, 2018
Will Sterrett: Building Rockcastle
Will Sterrett is the founder and owner of Rockcastle Media. The Kansas based network launched its first offering Think Fast! in May 2016 on just a handful of affiliates, including KWIX/Moberly, MO, where Sterrett was first he...
June 12, 2018
Everybody Loves Ruby Carr
Ruby Carr from Z95.3 in Vancouver is the winner of the Allan Waters Young Broadcaster of the Year in memory of Steve Young. Runners up were Lauren Hunter 102.9 Sonic Edmonton, and Jax from Kiss 92.5 Toronto. Ruby's name came up briefly back in episode 74 where Dave Bannerman was talking about some …
June 5, 2018
This is Julie Adam
Julie Adam is the Senior VP of Radio at Rogers. Often I will receive suggestions about who they want on the podcast and her name comes up often. This episode was recorded on a morning when radio ratings for the diary markets were released so we talked methodology and ratings returns, Radioplayer Ca…
May 29, 2018
Whatever Happened to Matt & Jake?
This is Episode 100. My years in radio taught me to celebrate the milestones and accomplishments. No more so than the time I spent at 100.3 the Bear in Edmonton. Some background on why I decided to do this show. Back in Janua...
May 22, 2018
Randi Chase: Up and Down the Dial
Randi Chase epitomizes the lyric in the WKRP theme song, "Town to Town; Up and Down the Dial." The lyric conjures up images of jocks, successful or fired, who shuffle on to the next gig with a new town and call letters. Randi worked in 6 of Canada's top 10 markets before turning 30. After taking a …
May 15, 2018
Brian Munz: Growing Up Humboldt
Matt speaks with Brian Munz about growing up in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and working with the Broncos.
May 8, 2018
Gerry Forbes: Retired and Lovin' It!
When Gerry Forbes announced his retirement, you can forgive CJAY 92's competitors for letting out a silent cheer. For over 25 years in Calgary, Gerry's morning show has been in the top three in a market that is sharply country. In preparing this episode, I reached out to some of the people who had …
May 1, 2018
Sales Strategies with Scott Howard of WOWO
Matt gets into the sales aspect of radio with Scott Howard from WOWO-AM in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
April 24, 2018
Lauryn Schaffner Living the Rock & Roll Dream
Matt Cundill speaks with Lauryn Schaffner about her YouTube channel and wonders why she isn't in Radio.... yet.
April 17, 2018
Matt's Podcast Thoughts and Nerding out on the Edge
A few more thoughts about Podcasting and its relationship with radio. Recorded in Spain as I tour the country side eating tapas and watching football. As well, I call up Bob Willette at Rock 94.9 in Oshawa and we nerd out of the branding history of Edge 102.