Toronto Island’s Shadowland Theatre spent the past week in north Scarborough as part of Arts In The Park. From Saturday until the following Friday they held workshops with musicians, makers, performers and Aboriginal teachers. The result was a theatrical parade that told the story of Alexmuir Park.
Episode #35: Chris Jancelewicz
Today’s episode I speak with Chris Jancelewicz. Chris is a seasoned online entertainment editor with almost a decade of experience in the publishing world. He has run multiple websites, contributed to AOL.com, Huffington Post and now is the National Entertainment Online Reporter at Global News.
Listen to his thoughts on Pokemon Go and the hit Netflix docuseries, Making A Murderer.
Music by Afraaz Mulji.
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Blue Jays at the half – 2016
Rogers Media recently released number from Numeris that report on TV and radio numbers of the Toronto Blue Jays.
- the first 81 games of the season had an average audience of 825,000 viewers on Sportsnet. That’s an increase of 51% over 2015
- 30 games have been watched by more than one million viewers
- When it comes to radio, more listeners are tuning in to Jays coverage this year than last as well: on Sportsnet 590 The Fan in the Toronto market up ratings are up 86% for adults 25 to 54, and 32% for men 25 to 54
The success of the Jays gave Sportsnet a 5.9 audience share with an average audience of 216,000 for the month of June, which translates to a year-over-year increase of 29%.
The above numbers were first reported by Media In Canada.
Welcome! is now out of beta
After more than 30 episodes my podcast, Welcome!, is now out of beta. What does this mean?
Well, before today, the only way to listen to my conversations with some really cool people was through the Girth Radio website, MixCloud or here. As of today, you can now listen to Welcome! on any computer or smartphone from anywhere in the world on your favourite app.
Yes, besides the places mentioned above, Welcome! is also available on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher and TuneIn. You can also subscribe to the podcast via RSS Feed if you’re so inclined.
You might be asking yourselves, what do I do now? Great question! If you haven’t done so, download one of the above apps to your smartphone (or computer). Then go to my show (links are provided above) and subscribe/start listening.
I welcome (see what I did there?) all feedback. In fact, it would be amazing if you could comment and leave a rating (the more starts the merrier!) on the app you use to listen to me. You can also comment below.
Coming soon: A professionally designed logo!
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
This Canada Day long weekend the family paid our nation’s capital, Ottawa, a visit. One of the places we visited was the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat. It is the only delegation in Canada. A delegation represents a group of people in a particular country but is different than an embassy.
Here are some photos of this award winning, Fumihiko Maki designed masterpiece:
Aga Khan Museum: #DoorsOpenTO
We recently bought a family membership to the Aga Khan Museum. We’ve had memberships to the Toronto Zoo, Ontario Science Centre, the Royal Ontario Museum, Marineland, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
During last month’s Doors Open Toronto we decided to pay this architectural beauty (near our home too!) a visit.
Here are some photos:
Episode #34: Sean O’Shea
Today’s guest is award-winning investigative and consumer reporter Sean O’Shea. Sean is regarded as one of the most tenacious reporters in television today.. He has exposed organized crime figures, scam artists and unscrupulous contractors – at frequent risk (he was once assaulted on air by biker gang members who had attacked him with a fire extinguisher.) I hope you enjoy my conversation with Global TV’s Sean O’Shea.
Music by Afraaz Mulji
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Episode #33: Huse Madhavji
Today’s guest is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts Program. He started his broadcasting career in Winnipeg, Manitoba before moving to Sacramento, California. Today he has a role on TV’s Saving Hope.
Music by Afraaz Mulji.
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Russell Peters – The Indian Detective
I got to attend mt first week of “upfronts” recently in Toronto. Upfronts are when networks preview the upcoming season in the hopes that advertising companies will buy commercials on these networks upfront (before the shows even air). Get it?
Anyways, one of the shows I’m excited to see on CTV (part of Bell Media) is the new upcoming program by Russell Peters: The Indian Detective.
According to IMBD, “The series will star Peters as a Toronto cop who unexpectedly finds himself investigating a murder in his parents’ Indian homeland, and will begin shooting this fall in South Africa, Canada and India. Big Light Productions, Blue Ice Pictures, Wonder Films and CTV will produce the project, which is financed by Blue Ice Pictures and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa.”
Sportsnet Fan 590 Producer JD Bunkis
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Welcome! Episode #30: Sportsnet Radio The Fan 590 Producer and Host JD Bunkis
JD Bunkis is the Producer for The Andrew Walker Show on The Fan 590 in Toronto. He is also the host of Free Association, a podcast all about basketball.
In this episode we chat about JD’s young career, how he got his lucky break in sports radio, and his thoughts about the 2015-2016 Toronto Raptors season.