ID Launches Podcast With ‘Homicide Hunter’

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Investigation Discovery is expanding its podcasting business with Detective, featuring true crime stories from Lt. Joe Kenda, star of the network’s Homicide Hunter series.

Detective launches Tuesday, a week before Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda premieres its fifth season on Aug. 18.

The podcast, which owes a debt to the popular Serial, will provide 20-minute installments every other week for 20 weeks. ID already programs a weekly CrimeFeed podcast hosted by Darren Kavinoky and Loni Coombs.

“People are consuming media on every platform, and the next evolution for ID is to take our signature storytelling style and merge it with an inimitable voice and talent like Kenda to create an audio-only drama,” said Kevin Bennett, executive VP and general manager of Investigation Discovery. “Detective gives our insatiable fans the ability to whet their appetite on the go, delivering the compelling and intense intricacies in the crime genre that only ID can.”

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.