Episode
Rogers Sports & Media alumni Sheldon MacLeod, Robert Linden, Lisa Blackburn & Amanda Wawryk on station closures and the future of broadcast news
- Published
- Jul 8, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2088
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/broadcast-dialogue-the-podcast-220006/episodes/rogers-sports-media-alumni-sheldon-macleod-robert-linden-lisa-blackburn-amanda-wawryk-on-station-closures-and-the-future-of-broadcast-news/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/broadcast-dialogue-the-podcast-220006/rogers-sports-media-alumni-sheldon-macleod-robert-linden-lisa-blackburn-amanda-wawryk-on-station-closures-and-the-future-of-broadcast-news.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Imagine the station you’ve dedicated years of your life to suddenly going completely dark. That’s the reality for 80 Rogers Sports & Media employees this week as the company shuttered six radio stations Tuesday and laid off a total of 230 staff across the media division. On this episode of the podcast, we’re holding space for the people who built these stations. We're joined by a lineup of Rogers Sports & Media alumni, including former 95.7 NewsRadio talk hosts Sheldon MacLeod and Lisa Blackburn from Halifax, and industry veterans Robert Linden and Amanda Wawryk , who both spent the bulk of their careers with Vancouver's 1130 NewsRadio . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .