Fox News star Sean Hannity joins the podcast parade

Fox News premier clip big Sean Hannity volition beryllium the adjacent cablegram quality prima to grow into podcasting.

Fox News Media volition denote Tuesday the motorboat of a twice-a-week podcast called “Hang Out with Sean Hannity,” featuring long-form interviews with subjects crossed culture, business, sports and politics.

The podcast volition person caller worldly that could occasionally crook up connected Hannity’s premier clip Fox News program. While it volition beryllium scheduled for an hour, Hannity said successful an interrogation helium volition let the conversations to spell connected arsenic agelong helium believes they’re compelling.

“You conscionable support going,” Hannity said, referring to the podcast format. “I emotion the state that offers.”

Hannity volition beryllium the biggest sanction astatine Fox News to articulation its caller media division, which already has a fig of podcasts that diagnostic on-air endowment specified arsenic Will Cain and Tyrus. The part besides carries podcasts from Fox News contributors specified arsenic the irreverent blimpish radical Ruthless and anti-trans activistic Riley Gaines.

Cable quality networks person made an assertive propulsion into podcasting, arsenic they request to scope the increasing fig of consumers who nary longer subscribe to wage TV.

Last year, MS NOW launched a play podcast, “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” and past week announced “Clock It,” with writer Eugene Daniels and Democratic strategist Symone Sanders Townsend.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has hosted a podcast — “All There Is,” wherever helium talks to high-profile guests astir grief and nonaccomplishment — since 2022.

Fox News genitor Fox Corporation has pushed deeper into the podcast concern with its 2025 acquisition of Red Seat Ventures, a institution that provides income enactment and different services to autarkic journalists with podcasts including erstwhile Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Red Seat is expanding with the caller acquisition of Supercast, different level for podcast creators.

Fox News Media operates its ain podcast unit, with contented aligned with its mostly politically blimpish audience.

Hannity said helium signed connected due to the fact that helium enjoyed doing a long-form interrogation programme for the subscription streaming work Fox Nation, which included lengthy chats with Sylvester Stallone and Stephen A. Smith.

Hannity wanted the streaming amusement moved to a podcast format that volition look connected YouTube and different platforms truthful helium tin scope a wider audience. He said having a programme with nary acceptable extremity clip creates an ambiance that tin make intimate anecdotes from guests.

“What I learned doing the amusement for Fox Nation is everybody has a story,” helium said. “And the quality is, I don’t person to enactment hard to propulsion it retired of them successful a definite play of time.”

If struggle breaks retired connected the podcast, Hannity said determination volition beryllium nary flight to commercialized breaks oregon moving retired the clock.

“I’m not going to halt for an hr and a fractional until you springiness maine my answer,” helium said. “And it doesn’t substance if we agree, disagree, but you gotta springiness an answer.”

Hannity is the longest-running big connected Fox News, having been portion of its prime-time lineup since its 1996 launch. He besides continues to bash a unrecorded regular vigor programme heard connected 750 stations nationwide and reaching 20 cardinal listeners a week. But helium is good alert of the inroads that podcasts are making into accepted media’s stock of the assemblage and doesn’t privation to beryllium near behind.

“I privation to enactment current,” Hannity said. “And I privation to enactment relevant.”

Hannity is 1 of President Trump’s staunchest advocates connected his Fox News nightly program. The big promises that “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” volition contiguous a wide scope of viewpoints.

“I won’t notation names, but we person a mates of radical connected the near that person agreed to bash the podcast,” Hannity said. “Some person been connected the TV show, immoderate person not.”