Episode 62 of This Is Toronto is now available! This latest edition follows up with Hockey54.com. The Toronto-based website is preparing for the debut of The Hockey54 show, which will air on an all-sports radio station in (of all places) Nashville, Tenn. www.thisistorontopodcast.blogspot.com NEXT EPISODE: Oct. 21, 2011
Blue and White Love
Episode 49 of This Is Toronto is now available! This latest edition features WeWantACup.com, a new website that hopes to maintain the Maple Leafs’ presence in Toronto. According to the site’s founder, the team’s lack of success hurts the city in many ways. www.thisistorontopodcast.blogspot.com NEXT EPISODE: April 22, 2011
Marlies Nation
Episode 35 of This Is Toronto is now available! Not only are the Toronto Marlies the top minor-league affiliate of the Maple Leafs, they’re also heavily involved in the community. Marlies Play-by-Play Announcer John Bartlett talks about the team and the contributions the players make on and off the ice. www.thisistorontopodcast.blogspot.com NEXT EPISODE: Oct. 8,…
Find (or Write) the New Hockey Song
The CBC Hockey Challenge site is up and in full swing at anthemchallenge.cbc.ca. Submissions are being accepted between now and August 31 for a chance to win “• Bragging Rights: the world will know you wrote an anthem that will be a key part of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada’s broadcast. The winning Theme will…
A Few Media Stories:
From Michael Geist comes news that the Conservaitve’s Copyright Bill enjoys almost no support at all: ” • 76 percent agree with the statement that the proposed amendments “are being introduced as a result of lobbying by the North American music market” • 63 percent agree with the statement that the proposed amendments “will expose…
Stephen Colbert Licenses The Hockey Theme
A number of GM workers were laid off in Oshawa. Our Canadian soldiers are risking their lives in Afghanistan. Gas prices are still rising. Yet, all we seem to care about is the hockey theme; a 60-second jingle that opened up hockey broadcasts. Seriously, what’s wrong with all of us? I agree with Justin, Dwight…
The Hockey Night Theme Music: A Dissenting Opinion
This is just one of many opinions already voiced in disagreement with Justin – and many others for as many reasons, not all of which agree with his own thinking – on this subject. I spoke of this earlier at one of my own blogs, before the word got out about CTV’s efforts. Then, as…
CBC Made the Right Decision: Time for a New Song
So the theme song is gone from Hockey Night in Canada. I’m ok with that. I really am. I know it’s the ‘second national anthem’, recognized coast to coast to coast since 1968 but ultimately it’s a song. It’s not Hockey Night in Canada and it’s not Hockey. CTV ended up buying the song, presumably…
CBC offers $100,000 for new Hockey Theme Song
You may have heard that the CBC is looking to replace the Hockey Night in Canada theme. This isn’t just a rumor. According to Inside the CBC negotiations have broken down and the Hockey Night in Canada Theme is gone from the CBC. But wait, if you’re a musician or composer you are going to…
MVP: Most Vindicated Player?
Back in January, I blogged here about the new hockey soap MVP, having done a little work on the pilot a year prior. I called it “big, stupid, nasty, trashy fun”, and wondered if the CBC could handle such a show. Of course, we know now that it couldn’t. As usually happens, there was some…