Conan O’Brien Sells Podcast Business to SiriusXM for $150M - Hollywood Reporter
Former NBC and TBS late-night host Conan O’Brien has sold his podcast and digital media business Team Coco to the satellite radio giant SiriusXM.The deal will see O’Brien’s popular interview podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, as well as Team Coco’s 10 other podcasts (which include a behind the scenes look at his late night shows called Inside Conan and a Parks and Recreation series hosted by Rob Lowe and Alan Yang called Parks and Recollection), join the SiriusXM podcast network.The deal also includes some video content from his podcasts and late night show, as well as live events and merchandise.
He would reemerge at TBS a year later, where he hosted a late night show called Conan until last year“We are thrilled that Conan remains committed to producing his incredibly successful podcast and will now expand his role into executive producing an exclusive Team Coco radio channel for SiriusXM,” said Scott Greenstein, president and chief content officer of SiriusXM, in a statement