Press Recognition
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I was pleasantly surprised this morning when Jesse Hirsh tagged me on Twitter with a tweet linking to this article he just published. Mapping Toronto’s Media Ecosystem“Explore how Toronto Mike’s podcast shapes the city’s culture, politics, and sports, mapping Toronto’s diverse media landscape.”Jesse HirshEco
There's a great podcast from AMP Talent Group called Spotlight Sessions, and I was lucky enough to be their guest. On this episode of Spotlight Sessions, Rosie Ferguson chats with Mike Boon, a digital expert who helps others succeed online through blogging and podcasting,. Having built an impressive online presence
Toronto Mike'd has been nominated for a couple of Canadian Podcast Awards. One for "Outstanding Personal Series" and one for "Outstanding News and Current Affairs Series". When I found out, I tweeted about it, and then went for a bike ride. Upon my return I see I violated an embargo,
I had a nice chat with FOTM Dave Charles way back in mid-August. This week, that 2 month old conversation was published in FYI Music News, which was recently acquired by Billboard Canada. You can have the greatest podcast in the world, but if people don't know it exists, nobody
The last time People mentioned me, it was as "the unnamed producer" in a bullshit hit piece about Dean McDermott leaving the podcast he co-hosted with his ex-wife Mary Jo Eustace. This time, I'm named. Here's the link to the article about Mary Jo Eustace's new podcast Senior Bitches. And
There's a show on CTV News Channel called The Debate with Mike Le Couteur and today they featured yours truly with FOTM Reshmi Nair. You can watch the episode here.
This has been running on the Rogers TV listings channel all week.
Andrew Applebaum has a new podcast called Toronto Legends that I'm honoured to have inspired. He dropped by last week to interview little ol' me. You can subscribe to Toronto Legends here. If you're looking for podcast production services, contact me.
I'm in the Toronto Star today. In fact, I've got a couple of colour pages, including the cover of the Together section. Sweet. Here's a link to the article online. I bought a couple of copies myself. Because with headlines like "Talk of the Town" and "Mastering the mic", how
What a thrill it was reading CBC Podcasts Coordinator Jason Paris recommending Toronto Mike'd to readers of the CBC Podcasts newsletter. This is true media geek talk for those of us who grew-up listening, watching and absorbing public and private media in Greater Toronto. Whether it be reminiscing about CFNY's
I wanted to check out the monolith by the lake in Mimico when a CTV Toronto news cameraman asked me for my 2021 New Year's resolution. My full answer included a funny bit about all the chocolate I'd consumed the past two weeks, but they left that gold on the
Pina Crispo hosts The Parenting Show on Global News Radio 640 Toronto and she invited me to be her guest this week. It was a fun conversation, and you can hear it here.
Tonight, my wife and I watched Faking a Muderer on Hollywood Suites, streamed via Prime. All FOTMs should see this movie because it's great fun, it's got Stu Stone, cans of Great Lakes Beer and a cameo from another FOTM in the closing credits. Oh yeah, and I got thanked!
A week or so ago, I got a call from Raju Mudhar from The Toronto Star. We had a great chat about the state of podcasting in Canada. I honestly forgot all about it, but in today's Toronto Star there's an article entitled "Have We Reached Peak Podcast?". Most of
Yesterday was a long, interesting day. After I got the kids up and off to summer camp and daycare, I recorded an episode of Hebsy on Sports with Mark Hebscher before biking to meet a client at Bay and Front, visiting Kevin Frankish at his uptown apartment, grabbing a drink
I was invited to speak to a class of media students at Durham College today. Their instructor, Rita, has wisely introduced new media into the curriculum, so I was asked to speak about podcasting. I have a rule... if I can bike to something, I'll do my very best to
Last Monday, I was interviewed by Pete Fowler for a segment on AIR: Arts Industry Radio. The program airs on CKWR, but I managed to score a digital copy so you can hear my appearance right here.
Yesterday at 9:55am, Lou Schizas's Happy Capitalism segment aired on The Stafford Show with Mike Stafford on AM640 Toronto. Both Lou and Mike have been on Toronto Mike'd, and they talked about my podcast for two and a half minutes. Here's the audio evidence. Here's a transcript of the
Yesterday afternoon, the Toronto Star published an article entitled Canadian sports media hears the call of the podcast. It's written by Raju Mudhar, a journalist I had a brief phone conversation with a few weeks ago. The article is about the plethora of mainstream sports media podcasts being launched in
Sean Fitzgerald wrote a piece for 24 Hour Toronto entitled "Cheers for your ears: Top podcasts of 2015". In it, he listed the top Toronto podcasts to check out in 2016. Between Geeks & Beats and Taggart & Torrens you'll find Toronto Mike'd. It's an honour being named one of
Roots was kind enough to include me and my newborn son in an online Father's Day feature. Here's a link for the curious. I love how the pics turned out. Here's a sample.
