iHeartRadio Announces The Next Great Podcast Winner
| RADIO ONLINE | Monday, February 7, 2022 | 12:34pm CT |
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 The Next Great Podcast |
iHeartRadio and veteran sports broadcaster Dan Patrick have announced the 2021 winner of The Next Great Podcast search, "Hookergate: Criminals & Libertines in the South" a new show concept from Atlanta-based podcast creator Dr. Lindsay Byron, a former English professor, Southern historian and longtime stripper turned full-time artist, storyteller and community leader. Launched in 2020 in collaboration with content creation platform Tongal, The Next Great Podcast initiative helps reach up-and-coming creative talent for a chance to develop a new original show for the iHeartPodcast Network.
"Hookergate: Criminals & Libertines in the South" takes listeners back in time to 1977 when a high-profile prostitution ring involving 11 businesses in three states was the most-talked-about headline of the day. The podcast combs through the dusty archives of the Danville Register & Bee, which were carefully clipped and preserved by Lindsay's aunt's mama, who held a familial connection to this web of crime.
The podcast will be distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network and will make its debut this Summer on iHeartRadio and everywhere podcasts are heard. Fans can also check out the 2020 winning creators Lianna Holston and Siena Jeakle's "Tossed Popcorn," a movie review podcast from a pair of friends who "don't really like movies," which was also discovered on Tongal and debuted with the iHeartPodcast Network in July of 2021.
