WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz’s media empire is catching up to his political career, as he turns a weekly podcast begun at the start of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial into a thrice-weekly operation bankrolled by iHeartMedia.
That’s “a big damn deal,” the Texas Republican told listeners in the final installment of "Verdict with Ted Cruz" as an independent production. “IHeartRadio is a monster. It’s got 850 stations across the country.”
iHeart is the No. 1 syndicator of U.S. radio programming, reaching 245 million people each month. Cruz’s show joins a conservative stable that includes Sean Hannity, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Glenn Beck and Jesse Kelly. Rachel Maddow is among the liberal podcast hosts carried by iHeart.
