Departure Festival + Conference gets set to launch its debut edition May 6 - 11, in Toronto, a "reimagined" Canadian Music Week at the intersection of music, comedy, arts and tech.

Randy Lennox, the co-founder and CEO of Loft Entertainment, joins Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast on the eve of the inaugural event to talk about their new venture with Oak View Group, and building on the CMW legacy, as Departure sets out to super-serve Canada's creative community.

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We last spoke with Vista Radio President Bryan Edwards in February 2024 as the company announced it was set to acquire 21 stations from Bell Media in British Columbia as part of BCE's divestiture of 45 radio stations.

More than one year later, Vista is now operating those stations, officially becoming the second largest radio group in the country.

We welcome Bryan Edwards back to the podcast to talk about the ownership transition and major rebrand effort as those stations and their employees join Vista, as well as his continued optimism about radio's viability.

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Gill Deacon's new Substack and podcast, A Love Affair with the Unknown, is all about saying yes to uncertainty.

The former host of CBC Toronto afternoon show, Here and Now, who stepped away from radio last fall, joins this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast to talk about her journey to embracing uncertainty - something many of us in the media business can relate to, her Long COVID diagnosis and recovery, life at mid-life, and her advice to other broadcasters living in uncertain times.

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