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.

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2024 Canadian Radio Awards Winners - Connie Thiessen and Matt Cundill host the 2024 Canadian Radio Awards livestream.

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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; Omnicom Media Group Chief Strategy Officer Shane Cameron; GroupM Chief Investment Officer Lindsey Talbot and Glassroom General Manager Scott Stewart.

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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 unvarnished thoughts on the state of Canadian media, and choosing to make a graceful exit from Canadaland.

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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. 

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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 need to start talking openly about AI and the future of creativity.

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$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 importance of community connection.

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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 writer Jo-Anne Christensen, the author of a new book documenting the station's history, join this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, coming off a win for Station of the Year (Large Market) at the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards.

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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 commitment to telling under-reported Indigenous stories, and his thoughts on recruiting the next generation of journalists.

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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 out of Spaces, and their mission to chase authentic community engagement.

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"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.

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