FOX Sports Radio Posts Digital Audience Milestones in March Despite 20-Day Absence of Athletic Events
LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2020 – FOX Sports Radio (FSR), a division of Premiere Sports Network providing 24/7 live programming, today reported record audience gains across multiple digital platforms for March 2020, in a period without sporting events since March 11.
March 2020 yielded one million more podcast listens than February 2020, when there was a full month of live sporting events, making it FSR’s second best month ever in terms of podcast listens. Year over year (March ‘20 vs. March ‘19), the network’s total podcast audience grew +67%. Among FSR’s podcasts that set a new monthly record in March were: Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis; The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker; The Doug Gottlieb Show; The Ben Maller Show; The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller; The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon; and FSR Weekends.
Additionally, www.FOXSportsRadio.com experienced its third greatest month of all time in terms of page views. Month to month (March ‘20 vs. February ‘20), the website’s total page views increased +126%; year over year (March ‘20 vs. March ‘19), page views nearly quadrupled with an increase of +285%.
Audience growth on the network’s social media followed suit. Month to month (March ‘20 vs. February ‘20), FSR’s Twitter impressions tripled with an increase of +160%; year over year, (March ‘20 vs. March ‘19), Twitter impressions doubled with an increase of +111%. Plus, FSR Twitter Profile visits in March 2020 were six times the profile visits in February 2020, and three times the profile visits in March 2019.
About FOX Sports Radio
The FOX Sports Radio Network, based in Los Angeles, Calif., is a division of Premiere Sports Network in partnership with FOX Sports. All entities have combined their considerable resources to develop a turnkey, personality driven sports programming network for radio stations nationwide. The FOX Sports Radio Network reaches more than 15 million monthly listeners on more than 500 radio stations, and can also be heard on iHeartRadio and FOXSportsRadio.com. Fans can also follow the network on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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