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May 6, 2024:

Patrick Beverley, a US basketball player, refused to talk to Malinda Adams, an ESPN reporter, because she wasn’t subscribed to his podcast. It’s not the first time, apparently. Last we checked, this wasn’t a good way to get subscriptions.

February 22, 2024:

Jesse Kinney and Holly Garrard have been hired by mowPod. Kinney joins from iHeartMedia and SoundHound, and is Business Development Manager; Garrard joins from iHeartMedia and ESPN as VP, Audience Development.

January 30, 2024:

NHL Wraparound Podcast is new today from Produce Your Podcast, featuring Neil Smith, President-General Manager of the 1994 Stanley Cup Champion New York Rangers and longtime ESPN/NHL veteran Vic Morren sharing no-nonsense opinions on news and issues around the National Hockey League. The show is a comprehensive view of the NHL, covering historical perspectives, current gameplay, and future trends.

January 29, 2024:

ESPN is the latest television station to put podcasts on the small screen. ESPN2 will televise an ESPN video podcast every weekday at 2pm ET from today.

November 21, 2023:

Tom Brady is to join AdLarge Media as Vice President of Sales. He joins from ESPN.

September 13, 2023:

Mercedes-Benz has built a podcast-studio-van for ESPN College Football.

September 7, 2023:

Amy Pilewski has joined Realm as Senior Account Director. She joins from Disney and ESPN.

August 22, 2023:

Troy Farkas, a former producer for The Ringer and ESPN, has published his first book. Surrender: A Guide to Living Your Best Life in Your Twenties includes his own experiences and lessons learned from his time navigating the early stages of his career at both companies.

August 2, 2023:

Hot Pod reports three layoffs in Marvel's podcast division earlier this year; halving the team's size.

April 28, 2023:

Scott McCarthy, the VP of ESPN Audio, and Pete Gianesini, Senior Director of Audio Programming, are both casualties of layoffs at the Disney-owned company.

April 12, 2023:

NiemanLab report "why news outlets are putting their podcasts on YouTube", focusing on ESPN, Slate and NPR. Slate appear to be using Headliner, according to the article.

January 17, 2023:

Lead By Example with Bob Myers is new from Omaha Productions and ESPN - Myers will sit down with leaders from every walk of life – from sports and entrepreneurship to politics and entertainment – to share in their experiences and the lessons they learned in their journey. Today's guest is Stephen Curry.

June 16, 2022:

ESPN is to premiere a number of new podcasts from Omaha Productions, the media company launched by Peyton Manning. Six new shows have been announced.

June 15, 2022:

Sports podcaster Blue Wire "wants to challenge ESPN and Barstool Sports", says an article in Front Office Sports.

April 28, 2022:

ESPN anchor Sage Steele has sued ESPN, and its parent company Walt Disney, after the company suspended her for questioning ESPN's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, and criticising former President Barack Obama, in a podcast interview on Uncut with Jay Cutler. She claims a violation of freedom of speech.

January 14, 2022:

Brent Weinstein has been hired as Chief Development Officer and Salil Mehta as Chief Financial Officer at Candle Media. Weinstein joins from UTA; Mehta from Disney, ESPN and others.

November 8, 2021:

Deirdre Fenton has been hired as Executive Director of Unscripted for Meadowlark Media. She was at ESPN and DAZN.

August 13, 2021:

Meadowlark Media, the podcast producer founded by Dan Le Batard and former ESPN boss John Skipper, has been commissioned to produce a show for the BBC.

April 16, 2021:

Comments made by a podcast guest have cost him $500,000 in a defamation suit. The Action Network, which publishes The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast, also settled with the complainant out of court.

April 1, 2021:

After Cuban announced that his app will be "Podcasting 2.0", he's also agreed to fight Adam Curry live on ESPN next Thursday night for the branding rights; the fight starts at 7pm New York time.

February 4, 2021:

ESPN got 500m downloads in 2020, a yearly increase of 28%.

January 25, 2021:

Luis Trelles has joined the NPR Enterprise Storytelling Unit as Senior Editor; he had been a senior editor at Latino USA. Andrew Mambo also joins NPR as Reporter/Producer on Invisibilia; he joins from ESPN. The unit has also had additional personnel changes.

January 18, 2021:

When Dan Le Batard left ESPN, he retained rights to the RSS feed. Yahoo reports this allows him to keep his audience.

December 18, 2020:

ESPN Podcasting had a record year, with 96.5m downloads in October alone, they say.

November 9, 2020:

ESPN is to lay off 300 employees, and let 200 open positions go unfilled.

August 7, 2020:

Podtrac has published its Top US Publishers list for July 2020. iHeartRadio is now #1 for US unique monthly audience as well as global downloads, beating NPR in both rankings. ABC is now measured alongside ESPN; it only measures participating publishers.

July 1, 2020:

Pablo Torre will be the new host of the ESPN Daily podcast from August.

June 26, 2020:

Triton Digital has released its latest US Podcast Report. The top 5 podcast networks, unchanged in order, saw a 6% rise in downloads. WarnerMedia made its debut at #8, with 3.7m weekly downloads; the data includes participating publishers only (and doesn't include iHeart nor ESPN).

June 11, 2020:

ESPN is to use Megaphone for podcast hosting and dynamic content insertion from July. They currently appear to self-host.

May 4, 2020:

Spotify has produced a music playlist to accompany an ESPN podcast.

April 22, 2020:

The 2020 winners of the New York Festival Radio Awards have been announced. The CBC were awarded 'broadcaster of the year'; their Hunting Warhead podcast was awarded as Best Investigative Reporting. Winners also included Wondery, CBS News Radio's Mobituaries, ESPN's 30 for 30; WNYC Studios' Dolly Parton's America; The Melbourne Age's Last Voyage of the Pong Su; and Lantigua Williams & Co's 70 Million. Here are the full winners.

March 5, 2020:

Announced at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit, ABC Audio podcasts are to be represented by ESPN Audio for ad sales. The move is to grow podcasts across the Walt Disney Company, which owns both brands.

February 28, 2020:

ESPN accounts for 65% of all listening to digital sports audio in the US, according to Edison Research.

January 22, 2020:

Front Office Sports has an article focusing on Tom Ricks, ESPN's VP of audio digital strategy and marketing: and discusses the strategy and process within ESPN for launching a new podcast.

November 7, 2019:

30 for 30 Podcasts from ESPN is back for a new season from November 12th. The season kicks off with a story about two of the most famous women in sports, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird. (ESPN Radio)

October 11, 2019:

ESPN's new morning podcast, which we reported on July 17, has a name, ESPN Daily, and a host: Mina Kimes. It launches later this month.

September 12, 2019:

ESPN heralded their record podcast audience of 7.1 million, saying that they've seen an increase of 49% year-on-year.

August 26, 2019:

ESPN has launched a new flagship college football podcast. It's called, unsurprisingly, The College Football Podcast, and there'll be three episodes per week.

August 12, 2019:

ESPN claim their podcast audience increased 17% year-on-year in July. Additionally, content created specifically for podcasts grew their downloads 25%. The data is from Podtrac.

July 17, 2019:

US sports network ESPN is to launch a morning podcast; it's to start in early October. The company have also said that their podcast users have grown 10% year-on-year.

May 31, 2019:

Welcome to over 140 new subscribers in the past week, including folk from Swiss Radio and Television, ART19, ESPN, Barstool Sports, Dave Ramsey, RAI, and Radio-Canada.

May 21, 2019:

Welcome to almost 400 new subscribers in May so far, including people from Himalaya, PodcastOne Australia, Media Monitors, Cadence13, Vox Media, ESPN, Luminary, Acast, NRK, NPR, Spotify, PRX, ARN and Radio-Canada. Please, tell your colleagues (and tell your HR people about our free jobs board).

May 1, 2019:

Another one leaves Luminary - the podcast app has lost content from ESPN. Meanwhile, also gone: a bunch of Luminary podcast feeds on Apple Podcasts, which contained short promo shows and unsubtle advertising for the Luminary platform.

March 14, 2019:

The iHeart Podcast Channel on AM 1470 in Allentown-Bethlehem PA, USA, is the first station owned by iHeartRadio that will just air "the most creative stories from over 25,000 podcasts available on our free iHeartRadio app", according to iHeart-owned InsideRadio, which also reproduces a program schedule. The station, WSAN, had a 0.3 share (12+) with its previous format of spanish-language sport from ESPN; it covers 728,100 people.

February 20, 2019:

ESPN is all-in on podcasts. As we learn from Steven Goldstein, interviews ESPN's Traug Keller, ESPN's first podcast was in 2005; and podcasts skew significantly younger than any other platform at ESPN.

January 9, 2019:

ESPN report that their podcast downloads grew by 43% over 2018, and also note that their figures are now IAB Certified, since they use Blubrry.

January 8, 2019:

ESPN in the UK have launched Head in the Game with Jamie Laing and Alex Lowe. The podcast "will take an entertaining and informative look at an upcoming major sporting event".

December 14, 2018:

ESPN radio broadcaster Dan Le Batard, who apparently has "strongly held, incisive and often contrarian opinions – as well as irreverent wit" launches a new weekly podcast in early January. LeBatard and Friends - South Beach Sessions has a preview episode up now.

November 29, 2018:

ESPN Podcasts have released their monthly podcast figures for October, quoting "43.6m IAB compliant downloads" from RawVoice, and "6.3m US unique audience" from Podtrac.

November 23, 2018:

Welcome new readers this week from Targetspot, Gimlet Media, Wondery, ESPN, NHPR, New York Public Radio and the CBC._

November 21, 2018:

ESPN Radio stations across the US are rebroadcasting three of their podcasts over Thanksgiving. The three 30 for 30 episodes will be played out from 1pm.

November 19, 2018:

ESPN Podcasts report that their downloads, and unique listeners, are up by 31% year-on-year.

November 8, 2018:

Players is a new crossover podcast with former ESPN sports anchor Lindsay Czarniak. "She connects with the biggest names in country music and beyond about perhaps the only thing as important to them as music.. sports." (Cadence13)

October 29, 2018:

ESPN Podcasts claim a "record-breaking" September, claiming 39.3m downloads.

August 30, 2018:

US sportscaster ESPN has revealed their "three-pronged" podcast strategy. The company had 36m downloads in May 2018.

August 3, 2018:

The Australian ABC has announced the return of OzPod, the podcast conference. This year it's on October 17 in a new venue: Melbourne. Headlining are ESPN's Julia Henderson (30 for 30) , and CBC's Veronica Simmonds (Alone: A Love Story). Also in the line-up: our Editor, James Cridland. Grab tickets; or enjoy speakers from last year.

June 29, 2018:

Thank you to 133 new subscribers over the past week, including fine folk from Acast, ESPN, Gimlet Media, Corus, CBC, TED, Ad Results Media, Swedish Radio, Québecor, 7digital, Mamamia, Cadence13, Sky and many others. Your support is very much appreciated.

June 22, 2018:

Thank you to the 99 new subscribers over the past week, including lovely people from Recode, ESPN, Corus, the BBC, Ad Results Media, Luminary, NDR, United Talent, Simplecast, Radioworks, FBI Radio, Red Bull, the CBC, Whooshkaa, How Stuff Works and AJC. Special thank you to Stargate Pioneer, the host of GonnaGeek, for your kind personal Patreon support.

May 4, 2018:

Welcome to our new subscribers, who this week include The New York Times, MPR, Wondery, Art19, Boston University, Castbox, WNYC, Radio NZ, The Wireless Group, Aiir, ESPN, Swedish Radio, Wise Buddah, NTR and Mediacom.

February 9, 2018:

ESPN posts a piece about its podcasting strategy. They claim five million US listeners in December; they have 35 podcasts.

January 12, 2018:

ESPN has launched a new weekly sports podcast called Sports? with Katie Nolan.

September 20, 2017:

TuneIn announce First Play, an "early-release" podcast service. Interesting exclusivity play for their platform. Monetisation is unclear. Studios to sign up include WNYC Studios, Gimlet, HowStuffWorks and ESPN.

July 11, 2017:

June's Podtrac "top podcast publishers" list is out. A strong debut for ESPN, and in total, June was 13% larger than May. Their release focuses on US numbers, but globally, the list is:

July 4, 2017:

"Should I listen to this?" - a nice idea of a deep critique of a podcast. This time it's reviewing ESPN's 30 for 30. "In some ways these documentaries redefine what a podcast can be."

July 3, 2017:

Major praise for ESPN's brand new podcast, 30 for 30, in Sports Illustrated. "The experience was so pleasurable that it reinforced once again why podcasting remains something all sports media outlets should bet on for the future." Good detail on how it all works.

June 14, 2017:

ESPN is making podcast documentaries.