Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 152, published February 20, 2018.
Crossing over. In case you missed it: The Daily is heading to public radio, and there’s a lot to talk about. Last Tuesday, The New York Times announced that it’s working with American Public Media to repackage its wildly successful daily news podcast as a thirty-minute broadcast for distribution to public radio stations starting in April. Notably, it’s being positioned for evening time slots, with stations being free to air the weekday radio version of The Daily between 4 p.m. and midnight ET. The evening broadcast orientation contrasts with the original drop time for the podcast, which publishes at the crack of dawn ahead of the American East Coast morning commute. According to Recode, the Times will get a cut of the fees paid by underwriters for the program. Both parties declined to comment further when asked for additional detail on the financial arrangement. (Hey, thought…
