Entercom buys two podcast companies

its Radio.com division. Pineapple Street Media will be renamed Pineapple Street Studios.

Pineapple Street’s podcast slate includes true-crime show “The Clearing,” produced in association with Spotify’s Gimlet Media -- which recently launched as the No. 1 podcast on the Apple Podcasts charts – along with “Running from Cops,” “Missing Richard Simmons,” and “The Chernobyl Podcast” with HBO. Cadence13’s notable shows include “Root of Evil,” Michael Lewis’ “Against the Rules,” “To Live and Die in L.A.,” “Gangster Capitalism” and “Crimetown Presents: The Ballad of Billy Balls.”

Cadence13’s programming partners include Conde Nast, Crooked Media, Entertainment Weekly, Girlboss Media, Goop, Meredith, Mythical Entertainment, Pushkin Industries, Ramble, Seven Bucks Productions, Smosh, Sports Illustrated, Tenderfoot TV, theSkimm, The Try Guys, TNT, UTA, and Vanity Fair. The company works with a roster of individual podcasters including Sophia Amoruso, David Axelrod, Nick Bilton, Rachel Brathen, Kobe Bryant, Emma Chamberlain, Deepak Chopra and Gwyneth Paltrow. (RTRS)