With 'The Hedge', Andrew Walker hopes to take Canadian sports talk in a new direction

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With 'The Hedge', Andrew Walker hopes to take Canadian sports talk in a new direction
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The former Sportsnet 650 host is starting a sports podcast with more of a national scope.

He’s trying to take lessons from what didn’t work in radio and apply them going forward.

“I was so disenchanted for a while. I took a career transition course. I hated it. My whole life and career, this is what I do,” he recalled. Along the way, he had a conversation with Ryan Jespersen, “Terrestrial radio is collapsing. Ratings are down, sponsorship is down,” Walker observed. “The younger demo is more into podcasts, more social media. A huge portion is there.”“A lot of it was therapy. She asked me a lot of “why are you doing this,” he said.

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