“I would tell them all to turn the channel to the news, but come back later, and we'll talk about it together.”

George Strombolopoulos · Q with Tom Power · Strombo on why Canadian TV was better when it was weirder

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organized a live Much Music special on 9/11, turning viewers to news then back to music later

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“I'm going to do the Much Music Edge thing in my living room. I'm just going to let people in because I want people to be that close to their favorite artists.”
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“My condition was I get to host loud and I wanted to bring back metal and punk to much music. And they went, sure, whatever.”
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“Waldfogel's research shows that between 2000 and 2008, the amount of new music tripled because of digitization.”
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“There's an energetically correct way to do everything. And that means listening to the right music, which is principally music by Serge's own son, Michael.”
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