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QCPN's first studio, located inside a former closet at

The Comedy Zone

2015-2019

QCPN's second studio, located inside Advent Coworking

2019-2022

QCPN's current studio,

on Trade Street in

Uptown Charlotte

In March of 2018, five Charlotte-based podcasts formed a loose alliance. These podcasts (The Charlotte Podcast, Cheers Charlotte Radio, The Yelp Charlotte Podcast, The Comedy Zone Podcast, and the Local Vibes Podcast) agreed to cross-promote each other on a reasonably regular basis, and a funny thing happened - their audiences grew.

From there, QCPN has grown to more than 35 Charlotte-based podcasts and its parent company, Balto Creative Media, services more than a dozen non-network podcasts.

Widely considered to be a pioneer in the podcast industry, Queen City Podcast Network continues to grow and to develop new podcasts that are changing the way

Charlotte's residents stay informed.

Queen City Podcast Network founder and Executive Producer Brian Baltosiewich has been producing audio on the internet in one form or another since 2001. He produced the nation's first web-based sports talk program (Sports Apocalypse) in Tucson, Arizona in 2003, and launched  one of the first podcast networks in the US (Radio Exiles) in 2009.

A life-long infatuation with broadcasting led to a 30-year career working behind the scenes in television and radio, and has taken him to launch QCPN as the first large scale hyper-local podcast network in the United States.

HIs book, "The Podcast Peptalk," is available at Amazon. Brian and his wife Terra, a self-published author, have lived in Charlotte since 2010, having previously lived in Arizona, and Michigan.

Brian in the University of Arizona hockey radio booth, 2009

Producing a late-night horror movie show

with Alice Cooper

Speaking on a panel about local podcasts at Podfest in Orlando, FL

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