Podcasting News

True crime continues to be a very hot genre for podcasts. In that tradition, Albany, New York’s News Radio 810 AM and 103.1 FM have launched a new iHeartRadio Original Podcast, Upstate Unsolved.

Rocketship.fm is a podcast for the startup business community. Season 6 launches on March 14 and will home in on one small city in middle America that's decided to marry blockchain to all of their future initiatives.

The new show is called 'Behind the Headlines' and it goes in depth into stories involving sports that evolve into true crime. Evening host and update anchor Julie DiCaro will host. In Season One, the show explores the murder of Michael Jordan's father, James Jordan.

Crossover Media Group has added popular talk host and National Radio Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Laura Schlessinger to its roster. Dr. Laura Call of the Day is available on all major podcast platforms. 

Call it the podcast for Kardashian-obsessed millennials. It has a single, simple mission: to help listeners keep up with the dating lives, drunken escapades, and makeup lines of superstar digital citizens, all in a digestible and fun banter session. 

Singer and actor Joey Fatone has a new weekly podcast in partnership with PodcastOne. Fatone and longtime manager and friend Joe Mulvihill co-host Two Cups of Joe.

Stitcher has unveiled its roster of new shows, original content, and advertising partnerships at the Winter Podcast Upfront in Los Angeles.

The variety of shows include a suite of podcasts featuring stand-up and storytelling from emerging and established comedians.

On Friday Motley Fool Money will mark the 10th anniversary of the show’s first episode in 2009. The show began as a weekly 15-minute podcast about business and investing and made history the following January when it became the first podcast to make the leap to syndicated radio.

American Public Media has hired an editor for their podcasts. Phyllis Fletcher comes from NPR where she has been the Northwest Bureau Chief.