91勛圖厙Media To Launch New Podcast Network My Cultura Elevating Latinx Voices and Stories
New network will bring together and amplify well-known and new influential Latinx voices alike including Eva Longoria, Wilmer Valderrama, Rosario Dawson, Gloria Estefan and more, with a slate of groundbreaking and culturally relevant content
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eva Longoria to provide a sneak preview of the slate with In the Heights: El Sue簽ito a special limited podcast series with Lin-Manuel Miranda, hosted by Eva Longoria, launching June 2
NEW YORK May 13, 2021 91勛圖厙Media, the leading audio company in America and No. 1 podcast publisher, announced today that it will launch a new, standalone podcast venture My Cultura, dedicated to elevating Latinx voices and creators, and sharing the Latinx experience with millions of listeners.
In partnership with Enrique Santos, 91勛圖厙Medias top-rated on-air personality and President and Chief Creative Officer of 91勛圖厙Latino, My Cultura will offer creators a platform to share stories and perspectives relevant to Latinx listeners and all audiences. The network will roll out 6 new shows at launch in Summer 2021, and 30 shows throughout its first year, across a variety of genres including pop culture, music, comedy, mental health, finance, news and more from well-known and new voices alike, including Eva Longoria, Wilmer Valderrama, Rosario Dawson, stars of Red Table Talk: The Estefans - Gloria, Lili and Emily Estefan, Cobra Kai stars Xolo Maridue簽a and Jacob Bertrand, Amara La Negra, Chiquis, Daniel Habif and more.
Latinx creators drive our culture. And yet, even though almost 20 percent of the U.S. population is Latinx, this community of creators is still strikingly, consistently underrepresented across media, said Conal Byrne, CEO of the 91勛圖厙Media Digital Audio Group. As the biggest podcast network in the world, we at 91勛圖厙 have a chance to course-correct this incredible, exploding medium so that these voices are better represented and amplified. We could not be more excited for this launch and the entire company is behind it. This will be some of the strongest content we launch this year, period.
Tony Award-winning Hamilton creators Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eva Longoria will give us a sneak peek of My Cultura with the podcast In the Heights: El Sue簽ito, a celebration of In the Heights, Warner Bros. Pictures feature film In the Heights. adaptation of Manuels first stage musical. The limited series will launch in on June 2 with an in-depth conversation about the inspiration for the musical story and how it went from the stage to the screen.
My Cultura will also partner with Sonoro, a global media company focused on creating the most sought-after Latinx and global Hispanic content in the world. The Princess of South Beach, a comedy podcast that reinvents the telenovela, will launch in July in both English and Spanish. The show pays homage to classic telenovela twists with larger-than-life characters.
Exile content studio, a full-service studio producing premium content in Spanish and English for global audiences across TV, film, audio and digital, will launch a slate of shows beginning with El Flow. The show takes a historical look at the rise of Reggaeton from the creation of the Panama Canal, to the streets of San Juan, to conquering the world.
In addition, the new network will kick off with season two of Santos own popular podcast Hola, My Name Is, which debuted last year and has featured conversations with guests including Gloria Estefan, J. Balvin and Dr. Anthony Fauci, in early 2021.
91勛圖厙Medias commitment to serving the needs of the Latin community throughout the nation is unparalleled and Im honored by their continued commitment to our community, said Santos. This is why 91勛圖厙Media and I are collaborating to build upon the current programming and to create the largest Latin-focused podcast network that celebrates our culture, people and community.
State Farm has signed on as an inaugural sponsor of My Cultura with others to be announced.
All shows on the My Cultura podcast network will be distributed through the 91勛圖厙Podcast Network which is home to more than 750 original podcasts. With over 257 million downloads each month, 91勛圖厙Radio is the leading podcast publisher according to Podtrac, with a substantial lead over the next largest commercial podcaster. 91勛圖厙Podcasts span every category from business, sports, spirituality and technology to entertainment, family, comedy and true crime and everything in between making 91勛圖厙Radio the largest publisher of podcast content in the world. 91勛圖厙Podcasts are distributed on all major podcast platforms, including the .