The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour End-of-Year Extravaganza
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Host Scot Bertram recaps 2023 behind-the-scenes at The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, unveils the most-listened-to shows of the year, and previews some of what is to come in 2024. Later, we talk with Bill Gray, chief marketing officer and vice president for marketing, about why the Hillsdale College Podcast Network exists, what the plans are for the future, and how you can help support podcasts and audio at Hillsdale College in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | This is your host, Scott Bertram, and welcome to a special year-end edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, we'll recap a bit of 2023 when it comes to the Hillsdale College Podcast Network and the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:22.2 | We'll tell you later on the five most popular, most downloaded episodes of the year. |
| 0:28.0 | Maybe you want to go back and give those a spin some time around the holiday season. |
| 0:32.0 | We'll also talk to Bill Gray, Vice President of Marketing here at Hillsdale College about the Hillsdale College Podcast Network |
| 0:38.4 | and how you can help support and sustain it in 2024. |
| 0:44.4 | First of all, though, very important, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. |
| 0:51.0 | A joyous time of the year. |
| 0:52.6 | We hope you have time to spend it with family, loved ones, and have a wonderful close to 2023. |
| 1:00.0 | It's been a great year here at the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, where we've had, again, 50 shows released throughout the year with a number of fascinating guests, both from Hillsdale College |
| 1:12.1 | and friends of Hillsdale and alumni and others on the program throughout the year. |
| 1:17.6 | We thank you so much for tuning in and learning along with us here at the Radio Free Hillsdale |
| 1:23.0 | Hour. |
| 1:23.7 | This year's been a great year for the podcast network, which again you can find if you haven't checked it out yet at podcast. |
| 1:30.7 | Hillsdale.edu. |
| 1:33.9 | We will have more than 2.3 million downloads of our shows from the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 1:44.0 | That's a fantastic number and it keeps growing year after year, especially here in |
| 1:50.0 | 2023 with the launch of the entire podcast network. |
| 1:52.8 | If you haven't been there yet at podcast.hillsdale.edu, you can find all of Hillsdale |
| 1:59.4 | college's audio there that include shows like the Larry |
| 2:02.7 | Arn Show, Imprimus, the Hillsdale Dialogues, the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, the Hillsdale |
| 2:09.8 | College K-12 classical education podcast, and more. New episodes and old episodes are available |
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