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paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast
Radio and audio media history, commentary, analysis. Researched, written, hosted and produced by Paul Cross.
Episodes
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five extra
On A Christmas Carol on the Radio. Reposting, with a slight edit to remove the original reference to live theatre performances, which were happening when I…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode Seven
On Making Change: It's a Start. From December 17, 2020. Continuing the theme of how things might change in the era of Black Lives Matter and the growing sense…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode Six
On how news reporting is changing and consumers are engaging with new content about the other pandemic. From December 10, 2020. Has the coronavirus pandemic of…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode Five
On MOVE, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Prison Radio. From December 3, 2020. A story from history that resonates today is being brought back to life with a new…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode Four
On 100 years of Radio. From November 20, 2020. Radio is now in its second 100 years. In the months following the start of XWA Montreal in December 1919, radio…
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Cross Talk Season Five, Episode 3
How conservative talk radio hosts react to the apparent outcome of the U-S election. From November 13, 2020. It's no surprise that when high-profile talk radio…
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Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Two
How Radio Covers the U-S Election: From November 5, 2020. Coverage of local elections is very important to local radio stations all over the world. Whether…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 1
Just in time for #WorldAudioDramaDay 2020: I'm starting Season Five! My newest examination of what happened...and what did not happen...when War of the Worlds…
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You Won't Hear This on the News - Episode 4
Donald Trump has been given hours of free airtime. Unchallenged, unquestioned, un-fact-checked...on right wing talk radio. On hundreds of radio stations, with…
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You Won't Hear This on the News - Episode 3
NBA players, coaches and team owners are leading where elected officials and other influential citizens are failing. It's time for more people to speak up and…
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You Won't Hear this on the News - Episode Two
My unscripted thoughts on finding the story about Michelle Obama's remarkable speech to the Democratic National Convention missing from the news on the radio…
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Season 4 Extra 1: You Won't Hear This on the News - Episode 1: Buffalo's Columbus statue
Unscripted, live-to-tape commentary moments after the conclusion of a news conference carried live on Newsradio 930 WBEN in Buffalo New York, received over the…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 17
"Thank you, Radio." From May 15, 2020. Radio stations around the world have been providing more than the latest news during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many are…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 16
"On toxic talk radio." From May 7, 2020. In Season 4, Episode Two I raise the concept of "toxic" talk radio; radio that is extreme in its philosophy and…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 15
"On the failure to warn the public" From April 30, 2020. The RCMP in Nova Scotia chose to use Twitter to warn residents in an isolated rural area to stay…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 14
"How Radio adapts in the Time of the Pandemic" - from April 17, 2020. Continuing my examination of radio's response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Previous…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 13
What if Radio was not there? From April 8, 2020. What if you turned on the radio and there was...nothing there? Unthinkable. In the time of the covid-19…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 12
"On how it took a crisis to make government communication more accessible in Canada.” From April 2, 2020. In the daily public briefings about the covid-19 held…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 11
"On listening to the news about government response to covid-19". From March 25, 2020. Commentary. This episode shifts toward the commentary spectrum as I…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Ten
"On local Radio in the time of covid-19". From March 17, 2020. In the midst of a pandemic of the covid-19 corona virus, most of what makes up "normal" activity…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Nine
"On Covid-19 in the News". From March 12, 2020. One could make the case that "everything changed" in the 24 hours connecting March 11th and 12th. Professional…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 8
"On the pioneering innovations in radio by Hilda Matheson". From March 6, 2020. Whether many people working in radio and audio media including podcasting today…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Seven
"On Reaching out on World Radio Day" From February 28, 2020. In Season 4, Episode 5 I explore the concept of diversity in radio from the three perspectives…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Four, Episode Six
"On the broken emergency alert system" From February 21, 2020. When a false "emergency alert" was sent out suggesting there had been an incident at a nuclear…
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Cross Talk: Season 4, Episode 5
"On World Radio Day - 2020". From February 13, 2020. UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization -- designates February 13th…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Four
"On a Radio Moment during the State of the Union address". From February 7, 2020. The State of the Union address included a four-minute detour to recognize and…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Four, Episode Three
"On Ways of Listening: H-D Radio" from January 31, 2020. HD -- High Definition Radio -- is one way AM radio in North American cities might reach listeners who…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Two
On Talk Radio - on the morning after the start of the impeachment trial. From January 23, 2020. On the morning after the impeachment trial begins in the U-S…
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Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 1
On how we communicate in the 20s: 1920/2020. From January 17, 2020. In 1920 your radio and your telephone gave you access to the world; in 2020, one device…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 11
"On a Christmas Carol on the Radio". From December 13, 2019. Final episode of season three. By the time the most enduring radio version of A Christmas Carol…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season 3, Episode 10
"How Transistors made Radio truly portable - 65 years ago". From December 5, 2019. The hot-ticket item for Christmas-time shopping in 1954 was a new style of…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 9
"On the 100th Anniversary of Radio in Canada". From November 28, 2019. Licensed Radio broadcasting as we know it starts in Canada on December 1, 1919. That's…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 8
On the Case of Don Cherry's Comments on Coach's Corner. From November 21, 2019. A hockey segment co-host has been fired because of his "you people" comments on…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 7
"How to Listen to Radio - part three: FM". From November 15, 2019. There's nothing like the sound of FM stereo radio! In part one, I explore night-time tuning…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 6
"How to Listen to Radio, Part two: Apps and Streaming". From November 8, 2019. A follow-up to Season 3, Episode 4 - which deals with listening to AM Radio over…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 5
"On War of the Worlds - On World Audio Drama Day" From October 30, 2019. World Audio Drama day is recognized on the anniversary of the October 30, 1938 live…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 4
"How to Listen to Radio" - Part One. From October 18, 2019. The term "radio" gets applied to a variety of types of access to audio. My focus here is on…
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Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 3
"On a Reporter's dilemma." From October 11, 2019. When a wave of environmental protest spread through dozens of cities around the world in early October…
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Cross Talk: Season 3 Episode 2
On how "There are no breaks in Radio". A listener should never hear a host of a podcast or radio show talk about taking a "break" or doing something "after…
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Cross Talk: Season 3 Episode 1
"On the difference between News and Talk". Listening to talk radio is not the same as listening to the news. At a time when traditional mass media news is…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 15
On the Future of Listening. From May 17, 2019. Listeners will continue to find things to...listen to. Final episode of season two. Season three is coming in…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 14
On comedy and satire in political commentary. From May 10, 2019. The further away news organizations get from real news analysis, and the deeper into…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 13
On propaganda passed off as news: From May 3, 2019. When the premier of Ontario went to New York City to visit influential corporations and appear on a tv talk…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 12
On High Definition Radio and Sports Play-byPlay. From April 26, 2019. High Definition Radio is just the latest attempt to enhance the sound of broadcast Radio…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 11
On Radio as a Source of Comfort. From April 12, 2019. Radio is a source of comfort and companionship. It gives a listener a sense that they are not alone, and…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 10
On False and Misleading News on the Air in Canada. From April 5, 2019. Until a Supreme Court ruling in 1992, Canada had a Criminal Code law against spreading…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 9
On April Fools and Fake News. From March 29, 2019. In which I maintain it's inappropriate for Radio news and public affairs program makers to make up fake…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 8
On declining to say his name. From March 22, 2019. The prime minister of New Zealand will not participate in giving a mass murder terrorist the publicity he…
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Cross Talk: Season 2 Episode 7
On the New Golden Age of Audio: From March 15, 2019. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Drama on the Radio was a popular listening pastime. Radio drama still is…