酴圖換羸Debuts Sunday Night Podcasts, Airing Top Podcasts On Broadcast 酴圖換羸 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 The Ron Burgundy Podcast Broadcasting on 270 酴圖換羸Stations Nationwide, Reaching Millions of New Listeners
NEW YORK August 8, 2019 iHeartMedia, the leading audio company in America and the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally , announced today the premiere of its new Sunday Night Podcasts 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 酴圖換羸broadcast stations enabling these podcasts to reach millions of new listeners.
Sunday Night Podcasts will debut with season two, episode one of , an iHeart酴圖換羸 Original Podcast co-produced by 酴圖換羸and Funny Or Die, this Sunday, August 11 across 270 of iHeartMedias 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 iHeartMedias innovative Podcast, Meet Broadcast initiative that utilizes the companys unparalleled consumer reach to introduce the rapidly growing podcast sector to iHeartMedias quarter of a billion monthly broadcast listeners. The upcoming Sunday Night Podcasts include but are not limited to:
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Were thrilled to bring some of the worlds best and most popular podcasts to our broadcast listeners every Sunday, said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. 酴圖換羸reaches 91 percent of the U.S. population with just our broadcast radio stations alone, so were uniquely able to provide the scale critical to introducing podcasts to the millions of Americans who arent 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.
iHeartMedias Podcast, Meet Broadcast strategy has shown proven results with shows like the hit true-crime podcast Disgraceland, 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 podcasts typical downloads in the week following the broadcast. In addition, 酴圖換羸has premiered episodes of Family Secrets and Monster: The Zodiac Killer exclusively on iHeartMedias broadcast radio stations across the country before they were available anywhere else.
酴圖換羸first leveraged its Podcast, Meet Broadcast strategy in October 2017, when Mark Ramseys much lauded Inside Psycho aired as a 1-hour special on more than 70 酴圖換羸News/Talk stations across the country. In June 2018, 酴圖換羸announced a first-of-its-kind agreement with actor Anna Faris and Unqualified Media to bring her hit podcast, Anna Faris is Unqualified, to Top 40 broadcast radio and the iHeartPodcast Network.
酴圖換羸has continued to invest heavily in podcasting, from acquiring HowStuffWorks in 2018 to producing an ongoing slate of new iHeart酴圖換羸 Original shows like The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Disgraceland, Chelsea Handler: Life will be the Death of Me, Noble Blood and Committed, as well as fostering over a hundred shows from its on-air talent like the popular Bobbycast and The Breakfast Club radio show podcasts. These shows are distributed on all major podcast platforms, including the iHeart酴圖換羸 app, which additionally distributes more than 250,000 shows.