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torontomike · SOWNY

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torontomike · SOWNY

Just to piggy back on this... every year I record a special episode of Toronto Mike'd with Ed "Retrontario" Conroy that we call Christmas Crackers and it's a jam-packed two hours of old clips and nuggets and this year's Christmas Crackers is one of the best. It drops in the Toronto Mike'd podcast feed around 8pm tonight.

torontomike · SOWNY

For the record, I've never worked a day in radio. So no, I've never been in the business.

I was a digital marketing manager for B2B software companies who ran the Toronto Mike blog on the side. Then, in 2006, I produced the very first Humble and Fred podcast and when we started doing that daily in 2011 I decided to leave my comfort zone and start my own show.

Tomorrow Mike Richards visits for episode 1595, I just hosted the 17th TMLX event at Palma's Kitchen (listen here - you'll hear Mike Eppel, Larry Fedoruk, Kevin Shea, Dave Charles, Peter Gross, Alan Zweig, Blair Packham, Brad Bradford and many others) and there have been well over 1 million downloads in 2024.

Yes I make money, yes it's still growing, yes there's an amazing FOTM community and many people who contribute to this very forum, from David Marsden to John Donabie to Roger Ashby to Doug Thompson, have been over for chats.

And while I'm here, Mike Stafford will return in 2025. Stay tuned.

torontomike · SOWNY

cash wrote:
torontomike wrote:
cash wrote:
How much is Ridley Funeral Home paying you? That's a very conservative business which doesn't need to advertise that much.

Here's Friday's episode of Toronto Mike'd. It's Dave Hodge's annual visit to my home studio to unveil his 100 favourite songs of the calendar year. It's awesome, and this episode has five paying sponsors.

Humble and Fred also have several paying sponsors, including such national brands as Kelseys and Bodog.

Nobody said it was easy, but don't assume no independent podcasts in this country are making money.
McCown and Blundell had sponsors as well.

Man, you're annoying. Have a nice night.

torontomike · SOWNY

cash wrote:
torontomike wrote:
I produce Humble and Fred's podcast (as well as my own, Toronto Mike'd). Humble and Fred make a healthy adult Toronto salary from sponsors of their show, and have been doing so for over a decade now.

It's not a hobby.
How much is Ridley Funeral Home paying you? That's a very conservative business which doesn't need to advertise that much.

Here's Friday's episode of Toronto Mike'd. It's Dave Hodge's annual visit to my home studio to unveil his 100 favourite songs of the calendar year. It's awesome, and this episode has five paying sponsors.

Humble and Fred also have several paying sponsors, including such national brands as Kelseys and Bodog.

Nobody said it was easy, but don't assume no independent podcasts in this country are making money.

torontomike · SOWNY

I produce Humble and Fred's podcast (as well as my own, Toronto Mike'd). Humble and Fred make a healthy adult Toronto salary from sponsors of their show, and have been doing so for over a decade now.

It's not a hobby.

torontomike · SOWNY

I'll see if Mike will make a third post-Corus visit. Here's his most recent one.

https://www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mike-stafford-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1373/

torontomike · SOWNY

John D wrote:
He has always been the Master of The Dial. Well done sir.

In this episode I actually played a little clip of a young John Donabie chatting with John Lennon.

torontomike · SOWNY

When John Donabie visited a few years ago to talk about his illustrious career in radio working at CKFH, CHUM-FM, Q107, CJCL, CFGM, CFRB, CKFM, CKEY, CISS-FM, Jazz-FM and CIUT, his interviews with John Lennon, attending The Last Waltz and so much more, we ended up talking for over two hours. Incredible!

https://www.torontomike.com/2018/07/toronto_miked_podcast_episode_358/

torontomike · SOWNY

If anyone wants to learn more about Melanie, she and JJ visited me a couple of times and in this episode we talked about her career in radio.

https://www.torontomike.com/2019/06/toronto_miked_podcast_episode_481/

torontomike · SOWNY

mace wrote:
In general I don't listen to many podcasts with Toronto Mike being an exception. His interviews are quite often with media personalities with which I am familiar. I would have no problem listening to a three hour interview with Roger Ashby. I am sure he has many amusing and interesting tales to tell about life in Kitchener, at CKOC and the CHUM Organization. If the subject is one I have a casual interest in, probably one hour is enough for me.

Firstly, thank you for listening. I think Toronto Mike'd episodes average about 75-90 minutes, depending on how it's going and how much time we have.

Carol Off visited Monday and she only had 60 minutes.
https://www.torontomike.com/2024/09/carol-off-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1545/

When Robert Fisher visited recently, we had more time and it almost went two hours. But damn, was it ever good.
https://www.torontomike.com/2024/07/robert-fisher-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1523/

Episode 1000 went 5:40:31, but I'll never do that again, because it almost killed me. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home.

torontomike · SOWNY

MuchMusic launched 40 years ago today. There's a great Christopher Ward book about the station, and there's a solid documentary called 299 Queen St. West that's sitting on a hard drive and unavailable due to music licensing issues, but neither does a very good job covering the MuchMusic origin story. So I collaborated with Ed from Retrontario to produce a very thorough and definitive podcast episode about for origin of Much.

It's here if you want to dive in.

torontomike · SOWNY

BowmanvilleBob wrote:
Walter wrote:
Does anybody (other than Taylor Swift's football boy toy) make any money doing podcasts? The only one I've ever heard that I liked was 'Canadian History X', which I listened to on the weekend on the the defunct 900 am.
Why not ask friend of SOWNY Toronto Mike? Or perhaps Dave and Erin Trafford, the father-daughter team behind Story Studio Network?

Plenty of podcasters make money... I sure do, and I produce Humble and Fred's podcast and they do very well. No terrestrial radio required.

torontomike · SOWNY

Jeff visited me Wednesday to talk about being bi.
https://www.torontomike.com/2024/07/jeff-woods-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1528/
There's also talk about Derringer, the Corus cuts, Macko and more.

torontomike · SOWNY

Fun fact: Perdita Felicien and Morgan Campbell are married.

torontomike · SOWNY

I just called John Gallagher and recorded the entire thing. Get your Spike update right here.

torontomike · SOWNY

Here is Simon Dingley's exit interview for the Dingleyheads out there.

https://www.torontomike.com/2024/05/simon-dingley-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1481/

torontomike · SOWNY

Fun fact: Meesha Contreras is Lily Frost's son. Meesha's dad is José Miguel Contreras from By Divine Right.

torontomike · SOWNY

I assembled a pretty good crew for episode 1430 of my podcast, a tribute to when CJCL 1430 went all-sports in 1992. Dan Shulman, Allan Davis, Nelson Millman, Scott Metcalfe and Tim Haffey shared some great stories about this chapter in Toronto radio history.

https://www.torontomike.com/2024/02/the-fan-1430-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1430/

torontomike · SOWNY

I spent an hour today with Jon Pole if anyone here is interested.

https://www.torontomike.com/2024/02/jon-pole-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1429/

torontomike · SOWNY

Claude recently dropped by to chat about the new CBC gig, and his career.

https://www.torontomike.com/2023/08/claude-feig-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1315/

torontomike · SOWNY

Just this past summer Erik Tomas visited me and gave me 80 minutes of stories from his career in broadcasting. https://www.torontomike.com/2023/09/erik-tomas-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1320/

torontomike · SOWNY

I recently chatted with Myles for over an hour and put together this little tribute for those who want to hear the story of April Wine and Myles's solo work in his own words. It's episode 1381 for Toronto Mike'd subscribers, but here's a link to the Apple page if you're not yet subscribed.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/remembering-myles-goodwyn-toronto-miked-1381/id557260245?i=1000637363756

torontomike · SOWNY

Montreal Radio wrote:
I'm honestly thinking of extending to him a kind note & maybe an E-transfer of what I can afford to help out. I think he said his email was michael.stafford@bell.net ?

Yes, he's michael.stafford@bell.net.

torontomike · SOWNY

Mike Stafford visited me yesterday, a little over six months after his last visit, to update us on:
- the status of his legal action against Corus
- his current living arrangements
- his family's physical health
- his mental health

Here's our chat from yesterday: https://www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mike-stafford-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1373/

torontomike · SOWNY

AspectRatio wrote:
Fjiri wrote:
I did some digging and found the details about Smyth and Smyth's two-day tango in December 2006.
I recall that Stephanie also discussed the lack of Dick Smyth relation on one or both of her "Toronto Mike'd" appearances, in 2016 and 2023 respectively:

https://www.torontomike.com/2016/11/toronto_miked_podcast_episode_206/
https://www.torontomike.com/2023/08/paul-cook-and-stephanie-smyth-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1311/

Yes, we learned there's absolutely no relation between the Smyths during her first visit, and when she returned with her husband Paul Cook in late August, I addressed it again off the top because so many people believe that Stephanie is Dick's daughter.

On an unrelated note, I was thinking about SOWNY this morning b/c I'm scheduled to record a secret episode in 30 minutes that I think will be of particularly interest to readers here. It should be in the Toronto Mike'd podcast feed by 1pm today. Handy subscription links are here: https://www.torontomike.com/subscribe/

torontomike · SOWNY

Pretty certain Steve was on the air with Michael Landsberg at U of T, too.

torontomike · SOWNY

As Steve's unofficial biographer I can confirm he had a show on The Fan 590 with Bruce Dowbiggin in 1996. It was called Double Play and they sold their own ads.

I actually reunited Steve and Bruce recently for a thorough Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett retrospective.
https://www.torontomike.com/2022/03/frank-v-tony-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1010/

torontomike · SOWNY

RadioActive wrote:
By the way, if you've ever wondered what happened to CHUM-FM's Rick Ringer, he's alive and well and doing afternoons on the oldies station. He writes about his own career here.

Here's Rick Ringer telling me CHUM-FM stories for an hour.

torontomike · SOWNY

FWIW, my sources tell me 103.9 will just go quiet... there will be no simulcast of 103.5.