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April 10, 2024:
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Studio71 has signed an ad sales agreement with Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald. The show was with Sony Music Entertainment.
April 3, 2024:
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Witnessed: 19 Days is new this week from Sony Music Entertainment. The show explores the 2018 investigation of deadly serial bombings in Austin, Texas leading up to the popular South by Southwest Festival; and is hosted by journalist Sean Flynn.
January 29, 2024:
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Podcast production company Broccoli Productions is to close this week. The company, which lists six members of staff on its website, says its partnership with Sony Music Entertainment ended early - the joint venture was announced in October 2019. Sony made a number of redundancies at the end of last year; and closed an earlier JV with Three Uncanny Four in Jan 2022.
January 2, 2024:
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Cover Up: Body Brokers is new today from Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media. It's an investigative podcast detailing how a small-town funeral homeowner and her elderly mother forged their way into the shadowy world of body dealing - giving families fake ashes, while selling the bodies themselves. The whole season is available now on The Binge.
December 1, 2023:
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New from Sony Music Entertainment today, Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad explores the complex story behind Ted Conrad, an infamous bank robber who disappeared without a trace. He was never caught and only decades later did he reveal the truth to his daughter weeks from dying.
November 1, 2023:
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Witnessed: Fade to Black is the podcast's fifth season, focusing on the bizarre story of screenwriter Gary Devore, whose mysterious disappearance in 1997 has become the source of many conspiracy theories, including that the CIA may have played a role in whatever happened to him. It's from Campside Media, Sony Music Entertainment and Stoaway Entertainment; and is available in full in The Binge.
October 20, 2023:
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The IAB UK Podcast Upfront took place yesterday. Sony Music Entertainment previewed their slate of shows.
October 18, 2023:
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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day has signed with Sony Music Entertainment. The show has had more than 45mn downloads since 2018, and joins Sony Music Entertainment from January next year.
October 10, 2023:
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Somethin'Else, the podcast and radio producer bought by Sony Music Entertainment in 2021, is to pull out of making 18 different radio shows for the BBC. The Media Podcast reported that other programme producers have also pulled out, saying that BBC production budgets - at a reported £800 for a two-hour music show - are too small to be viable.
September 13, 2023:
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You Had Me At Hello is new today from Sony Music Entertainment. It's a podcast where ordinary people tell their own soul-stirring stories of romantic love. Hosted by Taye Diggs, this is real love of epic proportions – its highs and lows, messes and dramas, awkwardness and laughs – with world-class scoring, sound design and narration to match.
July 12, 2023:
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Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History is new this week from Sony Music Entertainment and Pharrell William’s production company OTHERTone. From Michael Harriot, Drapetomaniax will uncover the untold stories of Black Americans in history with an unapologetically Black perspective.
July 3, 2023:
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Cover Up: The Pill Plot is new from Sony Music Entertainment today - the story behind the battle to bring the abortion pill to the US. The Pill Plot is the second season of the Cover Up series, which tells stories that expose deceit, deception, and the abuse of power.
May 25, 2023:
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The Referral with Dr. Karan was announced at The Podcast Show yesterday. A Sony Music Entertainment production, the show is hosted by an NHS surgeon with over 7 million social media followers. Expect straight-talking with a hearty dose of humour to learn more about health, science and medicine.
May 12, 2023:
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Among the other announcements at the IAB Podcast Upfronts in New York NY, USA: Sony Music Entertainment announced a growing slate including the addition of Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness to its network (from Earwolf/SiriusXM) … and Wondery and Bloomberg announced a mini-series focusing on the FTX crypto scandal, and Sam Bankman-Fried's part in it. (Available "on Wondery+ and the Bloomberg Terminal" from May 22).
May 5, 2023:
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Sony Music Entertainment has made layoffs in its narrative podcast team, podcast marketing and sales.
April 4, 2023:
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Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch is new from Sony Music Entertainment. This season reexamines one of Greenville, Mississippi’s most notorious unsolved murder cases through the eyes of the victim’s granddaughter.
March 30, 2023:
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Hosted by journalists Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabe Sherman, Infamous starts a four-part series today looking into the story of Dubai's Missing Princesses - two daughters of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai — Sheikha Shamsa and Sheikha Latifa — as they attempt to break free of their golden handcuffs. It's from Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment.
March 28, 2023:
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Please Tell Me A Story returns for a second season - Omid Djalili and friends tell stories to each other to see how much they change on each telling. The show is a Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment Production
March 14, 2023:
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Matt Raz has joined Sony Music Entertainment as an Executive Producer: he will serve as the lead producer on the network's flagship title, High Low with EmRata. Raz was most recently the Head of Production at Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters. He will continue to offer freelance development, production and consulting services.
January 16, 2023:
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Has one of your high school classmates been accused of murder? When Sam Anderson heard that about one of his class, he travelled to California to look into it: and discovered his mate had been pulled into psychedelic drugs. Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle is now available in full from Novel and Truth Media for Sony Music Entertainment.
January 13, 2023:
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Chameleon: Dr. Dante, the latest from the Chameleon podcast series, launched earlier this week. Dr Ronald Dante wasn't a real doctor, but was an excellent conman, hypnotising women out of their fortunes, taking out hits on his rivals, and opening up one of the biggest fake universities in history. Subscribers to The Binge can hear the whole series now; it's from Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment.
January 10, 2023:
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Please Tell Me A Story is a brand-new comedy podcast from Somethin'Else and Sony Music Entertainment. Led by Omid Djalili, it features six comedians telling the same story to each other. But can they pass the story on without twisting the tale?
December 13, 2022:
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The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods is new from Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment. The show focuses on Japan's "evaporated" people, the tens of thousands who go missing every year - some of whom vanish on purpose.
December 12, 2022:
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Callum Clark is the new Head of Podcasts, UK & Ireland at Apple. He joins from Sony Music Entertainment and Global.
November 15, 2022:
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Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald has joined Sony Music Entertainment's Podcast Network. The show has published over 700 episodes and garnered more than 200 million downloads in four years; and tackles all things Hollywood, celebrity romances, Bravo TV and Heather’s real-life drama.
November 9, 2022:
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A new season of Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle launched this week. follows journalist Sam Anderson's quest to uncover the truth when he learns that one of his former schoolmates has been accused of murder. Sam travels to an area of northern California known as the Emerald Triangle – where most of the USA's homegrown marijuana comes from – and soon learns that its promises of freedom, money and an alternative way of living aren't as idyllic as they seem. It's from Novel, truth.media and Sony Music Entertainment.
October 12, 2022:
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Best Friend Energy is new from Sony Music Entertainment, The Home Edit, and Hello Sunshine. It's a weekly show, hosted by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, The Home Edit co-founders and the New York Times bestselling authors.
September 21, 2022:
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This is History: A Dynasty to Die For is new from Sony Music Entertainment. Hosted by bestselling author and historian Dan Jones, it explores the story of the most dysfunctional royal family of the Middle Ages - The Plantagenets – and examines how power, greed, religion and sex fueled their lives with turmoil.
July 27, 2022:
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From Pushkin: Death of an Artist Coming Sept 23: For more than 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples: Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since. From Pushkin, Somethin’ Else and Sony Music Entertainment.
July 5, 2022:
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Why has there suddenly been a huge rise in shark attacks on a remote island in the Indian Ocean? Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise looks at the issues that could have led to the increase: it's new today from Hyperobject Industries and Sony Music Entertainment, and available in full in The Binge.
June 6, 2022:
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Later today, Sony Music Entertainment will announce two new shows for The Binge subscription channel - Witnessed: Friendly Fire and Fringe Network: Alien State. All episodes of both shows, ad-free, have been added to the channel.
May 25, 2022:
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Also at The Podcast Show, Sony Music Entertainment announced that Kermode and Mayo's Take had become the most popular Apple Podcasts Subscription in the UK; and the company has just announced The Binge, a new podcast subscription channel with full seasons of shows, to launch June 6.
May 12, 2022:
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At the IAB Podcast Upfronts, Sony Music Entertainment revealed their slate of upcoming podcasts. Vox Media presented The Verge's Nilay Patel talking with talent from across the Vox Media Podcast Network.
May 10, 2022:
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Nick Southwell-Keely has joined Sony Music Entertainment as Vice President of Podcast Advertising Sales. He joins from Acast.
April 5, 2022:
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The hosts of one of the UK's biggest podcasts, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are to take their film review podcast to Sony Music Entertainment. The new show, Kermode and Mayo’s Take, launches in early May. There'll also be an additional, paid, show on Apple Podcasts.
March 15, 2022:
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The new series of Power is focusing on Don King, the legendary boxing promoter. Hosted by Panama Jackson, it looks at his drive to stay on top, and his lasting imprint in sports and entertainment. It's from Somethin'Else, a part of Sony Music Entertainment's Global Podcast Division.
March 9, 2022:
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BioHacked: Family Secrets launches today - following the children of anonymous sperm and egg donors as they uncover the identities of their donors and gather vital medical information. It's from Sony Music Entertainment’s Global Podcast Division.
January 26, 2022:
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Laura Mayer has left Three Uncanny Four and Sony Music Entertainment to launch her own podcast content development studio.
January 10, 2022:
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Annabel Wilcken has just been announced as Head of Branded Podcasts for Somethin'Else, part of Sony Music Entertainment. She'd previously been at Spotify.
November 18, 2021:
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Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, launched Eclipsed, a new narrative history podcast that dives into stories hidden in the shadows of history. Hosted by journalist and executive producer Bijan Stephen, Eclipsed is a show about events most people have forgotten — or maybe never even knew about to begin with — like a disappearing lake in Louisiana, the two brothers whose obsession with precious metal nearly crashed the global economy, and the three Americans who went to the Moscow Olympics in defiance of Jimmy Carter’s boycott.
November 2, 2021:
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Power is back for a new series, trying to deal with Hugh Hefner's progressive legacy and his abuse of vulnerable people. It's new from Somethin' Else, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment.
October 26, 2021:
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The Podcast Show 2022 has announced new partners, including Amazon Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Wondery, Adswizz and Triton Digital. The show will also include a week of live podcast events across London.
October 25, 2021:
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At Sony Music Entertainment, Yvonne Gerald has been hired as Vice President, Podcast Marketing; she joins from TIME. Monica Toribio has been hired as Vice President, Podcast Finance; she joins from Disney Theatrical Group.
October 8, 2021:
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The IAB UK podcast upfront took place in London. Among other presentations, Sony Music Entertainment previewed their upcoming podcast slate.
August 19, 2021:
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We misread an announcement about Bad Blood: The Final Chapter yesterday - it's actually a brand new podcast looking at the Theranos scandal, and it'll actually be released in a week's time, on Aug 26. It's still produced by Three Uncanny Four for Sony Music Entertainment, though: and we regret the error.
July 22, 2021:
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For ten years, an arsonist terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight. Four people died. Then a manuscript for a novel led investigators to the last person they would have ever suspected. Firebug is new today from Marc Smerling's Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment.
June 17, 2021:
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Sony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin'Else, the UK’s largest independent podcast and audio producer and the BBC’s biggest independent producer of programmes.
June 16, 2021:
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Sony Music Entertainment has launched a number of new Apple Podcasts channels. There's a mix of "Uninterrupted", "PLUS" and "EXTRA" branding for their offerings.
May 14, 2021:
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New shows: Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter has scored a podcast deal with sports podcaster Blue Wire Podcasts. Music and entertainment stars Este Haim and Darren Criss are to produce a podcast with Audacy's Cadence13, and Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo is also to get her own Cadence13 podcast. Tenderfoot TV is to give To Live And Die In LA a second season, and launched two new shows. Sony Music Entertainment announced a new slate including true crime and kids/family shows.
October 15, 2020:
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One example of how the Spotify/Anchor news might make things better for listeners: My 90s Playlist is a new show from Sony Music Entertainment, with the first episode featuring a deep dive into TLC's No Scrubs. The 3'34" song itself, on a Sony Music record label, is played for less than two minutes on the podcast, and continually talked-over by the hosts, music and pop culture enthusiasts Tracy Clayton and Akoto Ofori-Atta, apart from one 25-second clip. To hear the song in full - on Spotify at least - would, surely, be a good thing.
September 18, 2020:
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Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen is the first output from a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media, announced yesterday. It goes live on October 1.
July 6, 2020:
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Sony Music Entertainment and 'Crimetown' creator Marc Smerling have announced an exclusive podcast partnership.
March 23, 2020:
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Viral: Coronavirus focuses on the actions of Congress and the Federal Reserve and explores how their decisions will impact the possibility of a recession. The show will tackle the questions that everyday Americans are all wondering: What is the government doing? Why are they doing it? Most importantly, will it work? (Three Uncanny Four / Sony Music Entertainment / Megaphone)
March 18, 2020:
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The Immaculate Deception is the first podcast produced by UK production company Somethin' Else in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. It's a disturbing true crime story about Dutch fertility doctor Jan Karbaat, who appears to have fathered at least sixty children. (Acast)
February 4, 2020:
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Sony Music Entertainment and Somethin'Else have announced a new podcast venture, working in the UK and the US on new podcasting opportunities. Somethin'Else is already the UK's leading independent audio producer.
January 16, 2020:
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The Topical, the new satirical podcast from The Onion, has published its trailer: it launches on Jan 29. It's part of a new strategic partnership between The Onion and Sony Music Entertainment. (Megaphone)
December 13, 2019:
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Sony Music Entertainment has made a "strategic investment" in Neon Hum, a podcast production house. The terms weren't disclosed. Meanwhile, Adam Cardew will manage the UK podcast division, being appointed Vice President, Podcasting & Creative Strategy.
November 6, 2019:
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The Onion and Sony Music Entertainment are working together to produce The Topical, a daily satirical news show, launching in January. "A daily news podcast provides an opportunity for The Onion to access and inform billions of presumably illiterate people previously deprived of the finest reporting the world has ever known," says The Onion's Jordan LaFlure.
October 25, 2019:
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Sony Music Entertainment has announced a joint venture in the UK to form podcast company Broccoli Content. The company will explore a range of podcasting opportunities supporting Sony Music artists and podcasting talent.
May 20, 2019:
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Spotify are encouraging musicians to make podcasts, according to a post on The Music Network, a musicians' website. Meanwhile Sony Music Entertainment is to make podcasts, they've announced, in a joint venture with Adam Davidson and Laura Mayer - and they're hiring.