Four New Network Podcasts: The Jam, SB:The Rise Of Fox News, Criminal Attorney & Naked Sports

Presented for your possible listening pleasure are four network-supported podcasts. All four appeal to a targeted demographic and may be ear worthy, depending on your listening preferences. Our four network-supported podcast topics include music, TV news, true-crime, and women's sports -- all topics that have broad appeal. All four are either just debuting or about to in the next week.

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 Season Two of The Jam podcast just released

Music industry leader and innovator Jonathan Shank just launched season 2 of The Jam across major podcast platforms via Osiris Media.

The first episode of the new season features Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda and manager Ben Baruch, with more season two guests to come - including John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), Devon Allman & Duane Betts (The Allman Betts Band), Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane), Maggie Rose, and more. Each episode will also be accompanied by an exclusively curated playlist.

Shank, who has worked with everyone from the Bob Marley Estate to the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, will continue to explore the evolution of music through personal conversations and journeys with artists, industry icons, legendary bands, and tastemakers in season two of The Jam. 

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Tenth Season of Slow Burn: The Rise Of Fox News 

Slate released the trailer for the new season of its award-winning podcast Slow Burn. This season, out September 18th, is called Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News. You can listen to the trailer HERE and watch a teaser HERE.

For its 10th season, host Josh Levin – Slow Burn’s Editorial Director and host of its fourth season on David Duke – takes listeners back to a crucial inflection point in American history: the moment between 2000 and 2004 when Fox News first surged to power and a bunch of people rose up to try and stop it. 

Throughout the season you’ll hear from the hosts, reporters, and producers who built Fox News, many who’ve never spoken out before. You’ll also hear from Fox’s biggest antagonists—the political operatives, journalists, and comedians who attacked it, investigated it, and tried to mock it into submission. And you’ll hear from Fox’s victims, who are still coming to terms with how a cable news channel upended their lives.
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Wondery to release new Criminal Attorney podcast series

Wondery’s newest true-crime podcast, Criminal Attorney, debuts on September 23, and you can listen to the trailer here.

Award-winning hip-hop personality/journalist Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins (Conviction, Mogul, RapCaviar, Complex, REVOLT), hosts the six-episode podcast, which recounts the rise and fall of ruthless defense attorney Paul Bergrin. In the early 2000s in Newark, NJ – one of the country’s most violent cities at the time – he represented a range of famous and notorious clients involved in heinous acts like prostitution, murder, drug dealing, and gang leading. Bergrin somehow always came out a winner, and Jinx reveals how far Bergrin was actually willing to go – even if it meant becoming a criminal himself – to get rid of anyone opposed to his client and obtain victory.

The series marks the debut of Wondery’s newest true-crime franchise; each season of Criminal Attorney will feature a story of legal corruption and courtroom scandal, centering on lawyers and attorneys that put their thumb on the scales of justice (Cue the Law & Order dun-dun).

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Naked Sports podcast to debut

The Black Effect Podcast Network and Cari Champion have announced “Naked Sports,” a new series that will span sports, culture and politics. “Naked Sports” will launch as the fourth season of Champion’s “Naked” podcast series, debuting with a limited special, The Making of a Rivalry: Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese. 

 The six-part limited series, which will join the iHeart Women’s Sports Audio Network, will explore what ignited the fire between two of the most promising stars in women’s basketball. During the series, Champion will search for answers from those who know Clark and Reese best.

 “The Making of a Rivalry: Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese” is not just about two of the brightest flames women's basketball has ever seen, but it also asks an essential question – in a time of such divisiveness, is it possible to let greatness unite us?

Cari Champion, the host of Naked Sports, is a distinguished broadcast journalist and television personality who has significantly impacted and advanced the sports media industry for women today. She will bring her expertise and unique viewpoint on the industry to “The Making of a Rivalry,” where Champion will sit down with the coaches and journalists who trained and covered these athletes, as well as Angel Reese herself.

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