Guests
Sept. 7, 2023
Buzz Bishop: Z95 in The 90's, CyberBuzz, Amp and XL 103
Buzz Bishop has long been a name I have been familiar with in Canadian radio, but only last week did I get a chance to connect with him for the first time. A mainstay at Z95, Crave and Virgin 95.3, he segued to Calgary in 2009 where he took up the Top 40 cause at Amp 90.3, before crossing the hall …
Sept. 2, 2023
Sean Ross: The Return of Ross on Radio
Sean Ross is back to talk about radio and records. He answers my burning question: What happened to the hits?
Aug. 17, 2023
Sue Haas: NLogic's New President & COO
Sue Haas is an experienced media executive, having worked on a wide variety of teams and projects. She was at Blue Ant Media for over 10 years, touching upon sales operations as a director and digital media as vice president. This experience has made her a good fit for her new position as CEO at NL…
Aug. 16, 2023
Josie Fenech: The Hot Tub, Talent & Top 40
Josie Fenech has this awesome thing going where she has been apart of a fantastic Ottawa radio story. Hot 89.9 went on the air in 2003 and shortly after Josie joined the station on evenings and later joining the morning show where she was a fixture until 2019. Today she is the National Talent Direc…
Aug. 9, 2023
Sam Sethi: PodFans, Podnews Weekly Review and River Radio
Sam Sethi is setting out on his biggest adventure yet.
Aug. 2, 2023
Lauren Passell: Podcast Marketing Therapy
Lauren Passell is the owner of Tink Media. Her experience in Public Relations . gives her a unique perspective. But simply put, podcasting is public relations. Everything from getting the guest, preparing the show, and marketing and promoting the show is what a great PR firm executes; all in the na…
July 20, 2023
Bryan Goldmark: Locked On
Bryan Goldmark heads up Sales at the Locked On Podcast Network. The Network was founded in 2016 by Utah Jazz radio announcer David Locke and sold in 2021 to Tegna. Today it is home to over 200 podcasts and 25 million listeners who want to enjoy a daily fix from a podcast about their favourite team …
July 14, 2023
Jodi Krangle: Audio Branding
Jodi Krangle knows audio. She's a long-time VO talent with a voice as smooth as melted butter, and the host of her own podcast, Audio Branding.
July 8, 2023
Jesse Brown: Canadaland
This October will be 10 years of Canadaland. Jesse Brown joins me to talk about his short time in radio working for the CBC, and why he started his podcast.
June 28, 2023
Radio's Summer of Discontent
Coming off the heels of a positive vibe at Radio Days North America, the radio landscape is flooded with bad news regarding 1300 layoffs, 6 Canadian AM radio stations being closed down entirely, Canada's Bill C-18 leading to the throttling or complete shutdown of news on Google and Facebook respect…
June 16, 2023
Kattie Laur: Pod The North
On this week's edition of "Producers Interviewing Producers," we've got Kattie Laur, a podcast producer from the Toronto area. But she's more than just that. In fact, the main subject of this episode is her newsletter, Pod The North.
June 9, 2023
Charles Adler Returns... (Again)
This week, we're back with another old friend of the show. Charles Adler was last on in 2019, and at the time, he was about to be on-air with Corus Radio. Nowadays, he's joining the ever-growing list of radio vets who have de...
June 6, 2023
Tyler Glen: Going Geo-Local
If you were ever a fan of radio, there's a good chance you had a favourite morning show. A particular host, or group of hosts, who showed up every morning and gave you a laugh or a smile on your way to work. Unfortunately, it...
June 2, 2023
Rick Cummings: Radio Brands Built to Last
A few episodes ago, I interviewed Jeff Smulyen about his new book. As I read the book "Never Ride a Rollercoaster Upside Down", I wanted to hear more about the construction of some of the great radio stations like KPWR (Power...
May 26, 2023
Don Anthony: Morning Show Boot Camp
If you've ever been in radio in North America, either as a producer or as talent, you've probably heard about Morning Show Boot Camp. Heck, you've probably heard us talk about it on the show before. But why should you care? W...
May 18, 2023
Chris Myers: Wired For Radio
The first time I heard about some of the great work Chris Myers was doing was when he was programming the Beat in Vancouver. I managed to get the before story and everything that happened next. It a very extensive collection of working with innovative companies and talented on air people. Companies…
May 11, 2023
Jimmy Fink: Radio In New York's Backyard
Jimmy Fink has one of radio's most storied careers. It includes legendary call letters like WHFS, WPLJ (when it was an AOR station), WXRK (K-Rock, the station where Howard Stern worked in the 90's through to Sirius) and now 107.1 The Peak. It is also the station that brought Jimmy back to radio aft…
May 5, 2023
Hawkeye: Country Radio Hall of Famer, Mornings New Country 96.3 Dallas
I had my first trip to Dallas last August and was looking forward to a few things: Visiting the Texas School Book Depository, Eating some Texas BBQ, and listening to the radio. We did all three but I did not check out a lot of country radio which is weird because Dallas radio is full of country mus…
April 25, 2023
Jeff Smulyan: Never Ride A Rollercoaster Upside Down
Jeff Smulyan is the founder and CEO of Emmis Communications, creator of all sports radio, one time owner of the Seattle Mariners, and now an author. He has written a book called Never Ride a Roller Coaster Upside Down which c...
April 19, 2023
Jeff Vidler: Signal Hill Insights
It's been two and a half years since we had Jeff Vidler on the show. It doesn't feel like that because I am subscribed to Signal Hill's Newsletter, attend a number of their webcasts, and meet up with Jeff at Podcast conferenc...
April 13, 2023
Vinnie Taylor: Clear Across Alberta
Vinnie Taylor is one half of Stingray's morning show on Real Country 95.5 in Red Deer, Alberta. His career has spanned the 80's to now. We have heard from his co-host Randi Chase on two separate occasions on this show, and thought it was about time we heard from the other half of the show.
April 12, 2023
Welcome to the The Sound Off Podcast
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April 7, 2023
Corey Dylan: Big on Radio, Food, Drink and Travel
Back in 2018, Corey Dylan was on the show and her episode about being resilient was one of our most downloaded. Things like unemployment, restructuring, and looking for work in radio are rather evergreen. However, attitudes need to shift as programmers are hiring differently than they were a few ye…
March 27, 2023
Kat Carter: The Radio Nerd
In all the years we've been doing this podcast, we've seen lots of radio lovers come and go. That might lead you to believe you've seen the most knowledgeable, radio-obsessed folks in the industry already, but believe me when I say they pale in comparison to Kat Carter.