Donnie Simpson has worked in radio for more than 50 years, but he’s never owned his own work — until now.
The longtime radio host who got his start on Detroit’s airwaves before moving to WKYS, and later WPGC and WMMJ in the D.C. region, is now expanding to podcasts. He’s launched the Donnie Simpson Podcast Network, and its first show — also self-titled — drops Wednesday, he shared exclusively with the Washington Business Journal.
The show will be produced by Podville Media, a D.C. podcast production company led by co-founder and President Charlie Birney and co-founder and CEO Oscar Zeballos. Podville lists ESPN, the Lincoln Project, the George Washington University Hospital and the YWCA among its podcast clients, but “The Donnie Simpson Show” is its first original show. The parties declined to share startup costs for the network or other financial terms of their partnership.
For Simpson — who has experienced no shortage of success, including being inducted into the Radio…
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