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\u201cWisecrack,\u201d an innovative true-crime podcast revolving around comedian Edd Hedges, won the top prize of podcast of the year Tuesday night in Brooklyn at the sixth annual The Ambies awards ceremony honoring excellence in audio content.<\/p>\n
The iHeartPodcasts series, hosted by experienced documentary and true crime journalist Jodi Tovay, looks at the bizarre confluence of events that engulfed Hedges after he returned to his hometown to perform at a charity event. Per iHeart\u2019s description of \u201cWisecrack,\u201d \u201cWhat starts as a heartwarming homecoming quickly spirals into a chilling true crime tale of a downward spiral and a town shaken by murder.\u201d \u201cWisecrack\u201d also won additional trophies for nonfiction screenwriting, society and culture podcast and for production and sound design.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n ESPN veteran Pablo Torre was dubbed podcaster of the year for Meadowlark Media\u2019s \u201cPablo Torre Finds Out\u201d at the awards administered by The Podcast Academy. \u201cPablo Torre Finds Out\u201d also got the nod for best sports podcast. The Ambies ceremony, hosted by comedian Wyatt Cenac, was held at the Arlo Williamsburg venue as part of the On the Air festival celebrating audio storytelling.<\/p>\n LISTEN:<\/strong> \u201cDaily Variety,\u201d \u201cAwards Circuit,\u201d \u201cStrictly Business\u201d and other Variety<\/em> podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n Here is a full list of this year\u2019s The Ambies winners:<\/p>\n Vanguard Podcaster of the Year<\/strong> Podcast of The Year<\/strong> Best Ad Read<\/strong> Best Branded Podcast<\/strong> Best Business Podcast<\/strong> Best Comedy Podcast<\/strong> Best DIY Podcast<\/strong> Best Documentary Podcast<\/strong> Best Emerging Podcast<\/strong> Best Entertainment Podcast<\/strong> Best Fiction Podcast<\/strong> Best History Podcast<\/strong> Best Indie Podcast<\/strong> Best Indie Podcast Host or Hosts<\/strong> Best Interview Podcast<\/strong> Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast<\/strong> Best News & Politics<\/strong> Best Original Score and Music Supervision<\/strong> Best Performance in Audio Fiction<\/strong> Best Personal Growth \/ Spirituality Podcast<\/strong> Best Podcast for Kids<\/strong> Best Podcast Host or Hosts<\/strong> Best Production and Sound Design<\/strong> Best Reporting<\/strong> Best Scriptwriting, Fiction<\/strong> Best Scriptwriting, Non-Fiction<\/strong> Best Society and Culture Podcast<\/strong> Best Spanish Language Narrative Podcast \u2013 Fiction or Nonfiction<\/strong> Best Sports Podcast<\/strong> Best True Crime Podcast<\/strong> Best Use of Video in a Podcast<\/strong> Best Wellness or Relationships Podcast<\/strong> Podcast Advertiser Innovator Award<\/strong> (Pictured: Pablo Torre and Wyatt Cenac)<\/em><\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWisecrack,\u201d an innovative true-crime podcast revolving around comedian Edd Hedges, won the top prize of podcast of the year Tuesday night in Brooklyn at the sixth annual The Ambies awards ceremony honoring excellence in audio content. The iHeartPodcasts series, hosted by experienced documentary and true crime journalist Jodi Tovay, looks at the bizarre confluence of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[37056,445555,445553,445556,437773,445434,445554],"class_list":["post-2299379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-conan-obrien","tag-edd-hedges","tag-pablo-torre","tag-podcast-academy","tag-sports-podcast","tag-wisecrack","tag-wyatt-cenac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Wisecrack-Pablo-Torre-Win-Top-2026-Ambies-Awards-for-Audio.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299381,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299379\/revisions\/2299381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n
Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend
SiriusXM<\/p>\n
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Mysteries
Audible Studios,Sesame Workshop<\/p>\n
The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR<\/p>\n
Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend
SiriusXM, Team Coco<\/p>\n
Redacted History
Dr. Andre White, Airwave<\/p>\n
The Con: Kaitlyn\u2019s Baby
CBC, BBC World Service<\/p>\n
How Is This Better?
COURIER Newsroom<\/p>\n
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Defacto Sound<\/p>\n
Red for Revolution
Meta Mana Media<\/p>\n
Our Ancestors Were Messy
Coco Hill Productions<\/p>\n
Our Ancestors Were Messy
Coco Hill Productions<\/p>\n
Jamie Feldman and Rachel Webster
Debt Heads
Captain and the Fox<\/p>\n
Death, Sex & Money
Slate<\/p>\n
Radiolab
New York Public Radio<\/p>\n
Reveal
Reveal and PRX<\/p>\n
Marcus Bagala and Sam Ewing
DC High Volume: Batman
DC Comics, Realm<\/p>\n
Maulik Pancholy, Murray Bartlett, Poorna Jagannathan, Karan Soni, Anna Camp, Adam Pally, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind, Conrad Ricamora, Iqbal Theba, Julian Shapiro-Barnum, Padma Lakshmi, et al.
Murder at the Patel Motel
Broadway Video, Audible<\/p>\n
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR<\/p>\n
Terrestrials
WNYC Studios<\/p>\n
Rachel Martin
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR<\/p>\n
Alex Vespestad, Steven Perez, and Cooper Skinner
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n
Robyn Semien
Question Everything
Placement Theory<\/p>\n
Jana Naomi Smith
Red for Revolution
Meta Mana Media<\/p>\n
Charles Forbes and Edd Hedges
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n
No Me Provoquen
Sonoro<\/p>\n
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Meadowlark Media<\/p>\n
Sea of Lies
Produced by What\u2019s the Story Sounds for CBC<\/p>\n
Tales Unrolled
Sonoro<\/p>\n
Embodied
WUNC<\/p>\n
Charlie\u2019s Place
Atlas Obscura, Rococo Punch, Visit Myrtle Beach, Pushkin<\/p>\n