Nominees Announced for First Annual Stitcher Awards; Voting Now Open

The Stitcher Awards Recognizes Best-of-the-Best in On-Demand Radio and Podcasts for 2012

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stitcher, the mobile leader in on‐demand news, entertainment, sports and talk radio today announced the nominees for the first annual Stitcher Awards. NPR leads the nominations and other nominees include BBC Radio, CNN, Fox News, KCRW, MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal. Six finalists were selected in each of the 20 different categories based on over 55,000 votes. Starting today and running through November 5, the public will have the final say in who will be recognized for the best of 2012.

Winners will be announced and honored at an awards ceremony in San Francisco. A full list of the nominees, who were selected by listeners, is available at www.stitcher.com/stitcherawards and includes:

• Best Comedy Show
  • Smodcast
  • The Adam Carolla Show
  • The Joe Rogan Experience
  • The Nerdist
  • WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
  • Your Mom's House
• Best News & Politics Show
  • APM: Marketplace
  • BBC Global News
  • Best of the Left
  • Fox News Radio
  • MSNBC Rachel Maddow
  • WSJ This Morning
• Best Sports Commentary
  • CBSSports.com Fantasy Football Podcast
  • Locked on Jazz
  • The Best Soccer Show
  • The Dave Dameshek Football Program
  • The Steve Matthes Show
  • Wrestling Soup
• Best New Show
  • CNN Radio Soundwaves
  • Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler
  • Mohr Stories
  • PodCRASH
  • The Brian and Jill Show
  • The Daily Kos
• Most original journalism
  • 99% Invisible
  • Democracy Now
  • Freakonomics
  • On the Media
  • This American Life
  • WNYC's Radiolab

The Stitcher Smart Radio app is available on iPhone, iPad, Android, Nook and Kindle Fire devices and can be downloaded from the Apple and Google Play stores.

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