BBC Radio’s in-house production division – previously called BBC Radio & Music Production – will relaunch on June 29th as BBC Audio with a new development unit focused on podcasts. The Creative Development Unit (CDU), based in Bristol, will turbocharge the production division’s podcast ambitions. The CDU team will draw upon the creative and production […]
iHeartRadio, the global commercial podcast publisher, and WarnerMedia Entertainment, the WarnerMedia business unit that includes HBO, HBO Max, TNT, TBS, truTV, Rooster Teeth and Crunchyroll, have announced a partnership to co-produce a slate of companion podcasts for HBO Max’s upcoming catalog of original and legacy shows. The first podcasts to debut will include companion podcasts […]
Spotify has agreed a multiyear partnership with Warner Bros. and DC to produce and distribute an original slate of narrative scripted podcasts exclusively on Spotify. The partnership – the first to involve the intellectual property of the entire DC Universe – will leverage iconic characters in new Spotify shows. Additionally, the companies are expected to […]
Spotify is racking up major gains in France’s music streaming market, driving the growth of the business and overtaking rival service Deezer on its home turf. In November 2019 Spotify rose to take 13 per cent of the online audience in France, exceeding Deezer by 1 percentage point, as reported by Omdia’s Consumer Research – […]
US pay-radio operator SiriusXM has issued $1.5 billion of new Senior Notes debt in a private placement. The offering was significantly oversubscribed. The net proceeds will be used to redeem all of its outstanding 5.375 per cent senior notes originally due for repayment in 2025 as well as borrowings of its 4.625 per cent Notes […]
The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is coming to Spotify via a multi-year exclusive licensing deal. The talk series has long been the most-searched-for podcast on Spotify and is the leading show on practically every other podcasting platform. And, like all podcasts and vodcasts on Spotify, it will […]
BBC Radio 6 Music reached a record 2.56 million listeners (from 2.49 million last quarter and 2.52 million last year), with the station’s weekday breakfast show with Lauren Laverne also seeing its biggest audience ever with 1.3 million listeners, according to the latest Rajars. The figures released covering the first quarter of 2020 also reveal […]
France’s TV regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and its partners within the Observatory of audiovisual equipment for households in mainland France have revealed its latest findings for television and radio, two media which it says are of major importance during the health crisis. According to the CSA, trends observed in recent years are […]
SiriusXM is expecting to now launch its SiriusXM 8 satellite in “early 2021″, and SiriusXM 7 will now take place later this year. The two satellites were ordered in late 2016. SiriusXM 7 is planned to replace XM 3 (at the time named as ‘Rhythm’) while Sirius XM-8 will replace XM 4 (launched in October […]
Pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM (now including numbers from Pandora) showed only modest quarter-on-quarter growth of some 69,000 net new subscribers during Q1 this year. It also emerged that ‘shock jock’ Howard Stern is considering his options as his contract with SiriusXM comes to an end. Revenue grew 5 per cent (YoY), but virus uncertainty means that […]