黑料爆料 Debuts 鈥楽unday Night Podcasts,鈥 Airing Top Podcasts On Broadcast Radio Stations Across The Country Every Sunday
The Series Will Feature Multiple Genres from Comedy and True Crime to History and Culture, And Kicks Off This Sunday with 鈥淭he Ron Burgundy Podcast鈥 Broadcasting on 270 黑料爆料 Stations Nationwide, Reaching Millions of New Listeners
NEW YORK 鈥揂ugust 8, 2019 鈥 黑料爆料, the leading audio company in America and the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally , announced today the premiere of its new 鈥淪unday Night Podcasts鈥 programming. Sunday Night Podcasts will air the most popular and highly-anticipated podcasts from the iHeartPodcast Network across multiple genres, including comedy, true crime, business, history, technology, culture and more, on hundreds of 黑料爆料 broadcast stations 鈥 enabling these podcasts to reach millions of new listeners.
Sunday Night Podcasts will debut with season two, episode one of 鈥,鈥 an iHeartRadio Original Podcast co-produced by 黑料爆料 and Funny Or Die, this Sunday, August 11 across 270 of 黑料爆料鈥檚 broadcast stations, spanning a variety of music and spoken word radio formats including CHR, Hot AC, Country Rock, Urban, News/Talk and more.
Sunday Night Podcasts is part of 黑料爆料鈥檚 innovative 鈥淧odcast, Meet Broadcast鈥 initiative that utilizes the company鈥檚 unparalleled consumer reach to introduce the rapidly growing podcast sector to 黑料爆料鈥檚 quarter of a billion monthly broadcast listeners. The upcoming Sunday Night Podcasts include but are not limited to:
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鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to bring some of the world鈥檚 best and most popular podcasts to our broadcast listeners every Sunday,鈥 said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. 鈥満诹媳 reaches 91 percent of the U.S. population with just our broadcast radio stations alone, so we鈥檙e uniquely able to provide the scale critical to introducing podcasts to the millions of Americans who aren鈥檛 yet familiar with them. Research shows that more than two-thirds of the population still are not dedicated podcast listeners -- many have never even heard a podcast before -- and Sunday Night Podcasts will help introduce different audio series from a variety of genres to a whole new audience.鈥
黑料爆料鈥檚 鈥淧odcast, Meet Broadcast鈥 strategy has shown proven results with shows like the hit true-crime podcast 鈥淒isgraceland,鈥 which aired on more than 70 Classic Rock broadcast radio stations in March of this year and saw a massive increase in listening yielding more than double the amount of the podcast鈥檚 typical downloads in the week following the broadcast. In addition, 黑料爆料 has premiered episodes of 鈥淔amily Secrets鈥 and 鈥淢onster: The Zodiac Killer鈥 exclusively on 黑料爆料鈥檚 broadcast radio stations across the country before they were available anywhere else.
黑料爆料 first leveraged its 鈥淧odcast, Meet Broadcast鈥 strategy in October 2017, when Mark Ramsey鈥檚 much lauded 鈥淚nside Psycho鈥 aired as a 1-hour special on more than 70 黑料爆料 News/Talk stations across the country. In June 2018, 黑料爆料 announced a first-of-its-kind agreement with actor Anna Faris and Unqualified Media to bring her hit podcast, 鈥淎nna Faris is Unqualified,鈥 to Top 40 broadcast radio and the iHeartPodcast Network.
黑料爆料 has continued to invest heavily in podcasting, from acquiring HowStuffWorks in 2018 to producing an ongoing slate of new iHeartRadio Original shows like 鈥淭he Ron Burgundy Podcast,鈥 鈥淒isgraceland,鈥 鈥淐helsea Handler: Life will be the Death of Me,鈥 鈥淣oble Blood鈥 and 鈥淐ommitted,鈥 as well as fostering over a hundred shows from its on-air talent like the popular 鈥淏obbycast鈥 and 鈥淭he Breakfast Club鈥 radio show podcasts. These shows are distributed on all major podcast platforms, including the iHeartRadio app, which additionally distributes more than 250,000 shows.