South Asian broadcasting trailblazer Shushma Datt will be recognized at the upcoming Jack Webster Foundation Awards with the 2021 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award, which honours an exemplary B.C. journalism career.

Datt, who faced significant racism from mainstream media, persevered and started her own 24-hour South Asian radio station on a sub-carrier frequency, later becoming the first Indo-Canadian woman to be granted a CRTC licence with the launch of Sp!ce Radio AM 1200 in Burnaby in 2005. Over the years, she's also produced and hosted television programming for Shaw and OMNI, including the long-running “Women In Focus.”

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we're pleased to welcome Datt to talk about her media journey, how far the industry has come and how far it still needs to go.

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Women in Film and Television - Canada Coalition (WIFT-CC) in conjunction with Reel Families for Change, has released the results of its Family Care Report—a cross-Canada survey highlighting how the pandemic has compounded child care challenges for women in film.

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we welcome Reel Families' Heather and Sean McQuillan and the report's author, Susan Brinton, to talk about why the industry should be trying to keep more women in the workforce.

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Like a lot of legacy publications, The Canadian Jewish News has had its ups and downs in the new digital reality, even facing closure at one point. But the pandemic has spurred a digital-first rebirth of the publication that includes a revamped podcast network focused on telling uniquely Jewish Canadian stories.

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we welcome Michael Fraiman, Executive Director of the CJN Podcast Network, and journalist and author Ellin Bessner, the host of The CJN Daily, to talk about the relaunch, its challenges, and the advantages of being niche media.

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After parting ways with Sportsnet Radio earlier this year, this was supposed to be the summer of Dave Cadeau...but the Hamilton Tiger Cats had other ideas.

Cadeau, the former Director of Programming for Sports Radio at Rogers Sports & Media, has been recruited as the Executive Producer of the new Ti-Cats Audio Network - an in-house content machine super-serving fans with daily and game day programming - amid increasingly scant resources in conventional broadcasting.

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we welcome Dave Cadeau to talk about the future of pro-sports media content and the ever-changing sports radio landscape.

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Dielectric has changed how FM broadcast antenna manufactures validate directional pattern studies for new FM broadcast antennas. The company's groundbreaking research has resulted in the recent FCC filing of a Petition for Rulemaking, written with leading broadcast consultancy, Merrill Weiss Group, and expected to be approved this fall.

The new rule paves the way for the first directional FM pattern verification rule change in 58 years — a rule change that passes the torch from physical to AI-driven simulated modeling. 

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, David Rusch talks with Keith Pelletier, General Manager of Dielectric, about the ramifications of this rule change for broadcasters in both the U.S. and Canada.

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On Sept. 30th, the 7th annual International Podcast Day will celebrate the medium, but this year - instead of hosting a round-the-clock livestream featuring hundreds of podcasters from around the globe, the event's founders are turning the day back over to the podcast community.

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we talk to International Podcast Day co-founder Dave Lee on how you can take part - whether you're a listener looking to share your favourite shows - or a podcaster wanting to find a unique way to connect with your audience.

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In the three-channel universe most Canadian kids in the 1970s grew up in, Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a weekend morning staple. From its wacky pacing to the lyrical monologues of legend Vincent Price, and memorable characters like The Count, Igor, and Grizelda The Ghastly Gourmet, the CHCH Hamilton series - shot over just nine months in 1971 - has established a cult following.

This week, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary, marked by the debut of new pre-school adaptation Happy House of Frightenstein, the first of a series of spin-offs in the works from Headspinner Productions. On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we talk to Headspinner's Michelle Melanson and Ken Cuperus on licensing a Canadian pop culture institution.

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NAB Show, the largest media and entertainment industry convention in the world, is one of the first large-scale events to return in-person, Oct. 9-13 in Las Vegas.

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we talk to Chris Brown, the National Association of Broadcasters' Vice President and Managing Director of Global Connections and Events, on the challenges of staging the show amid consistently changing health orders and what vendors and attendees, including those taking the show in virtually, can expect from this year's event.

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In this sponsored episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, NewTek Sales Engineer Chris Burgos talks about IP Video Technology and how it provides every storyteller a voice through video. 

Burgos also touches on what’s happening in live production, what the future looks like, and how you can find out how to evolve your workflows and improve the quality of your output. 

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Wayne Harrett, who founded Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia community radio station Seaside FM in 2002, lost a lengthy battle with cancer earlier this month. This episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast is for anyone who has been told they don't have a voice for or a future in radio, because Harrett didn't let that stop him from starting and growing his own station, fuelled by his sheer passion for the medium.

Among the voices featured in this episode are Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin, Halifax Regional Councillor and radio veteran Lisa Blackburn, MOVE 100 (CIOO-FM) Halifax personality and former Seaside FM volunteer Erin Hopkins, Wayne's sister and Seaside FM board member Cindy Harrett, and Seaside FM afternoon drive host Noah Widmeyer.

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