Who owns iHeartRadio?
iHeartRadio is owned by iHeartMedia (the United States, NASDAQ: IHRT).[1]
Evidence: iHeartMedia, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-02, SEC EDGAR, 2 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- iHeartMedia, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Antonio, Texas
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2008
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Radio & audio › Radio networks
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: IHRT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About iHeartRadio
iHeartRadio streams the company's hundreds of local stations alongside on-demand audio, and its annual music festival is one of the largest in the United States. Local radio remains the business, with streaming as the shop window. The app carries the company's stations nationally, so a listener in one city can hear a station licensed to another, which broadcast rules would never have allowed over the air.
What iHeartMedia's annual report says about iHeartRadio
Sentences about iHeartRadio from iHeartMedia's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Digital : Our iHeartRadio digital platform is the number one streaming broadcast radio platform, with nearly five times the digital listening hours of the next largest commercial broadcast radio company, as measured by our subsidiary Triton.
This social footprint was at the heart of delivering over 63 billion social media impressions for our 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Our seven tentpole events include: the iHeartRadio Music Festival; the iHeartRadio Music Awards; the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour; the iHeartCountry Festival; iHeartRadio ALTer Ego; the iHeart Podcast Awards and iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina.
How often iHeartMedia names iHeartRadio in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Ownership timeline of iHeartRadio
- Current owner iHeartMedia [1] verified
Where iHeartRadio sits in iHeartMedia
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by iHeartMedia
iHeartMedia controls 2 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- iHeartPodcast Network (2018)
Other brands in radio networks, and who owns them
The 26 brands in radio networks on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is NZME, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Coast | NZME | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| ERA | Astro | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Chérie FM | NRJ Group | 🇫🇷 France |
| Europe 1 | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| La 100 | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Hit Network | Southern Cross Media Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Radio One | Urban One | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Westwood One | Cumulus Media | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: iHeartMedia
iHeartMedia is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States, founded in 1972. Brandtree records 2 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: IHRT.
iHeartMedia was called Clear Channel until 2014 and owns more radio stations than any other American company, having bought hundreds after ownership caps were relaxed in 1996. It went through bankruptcy in 2018 under debt from a leveraged buyout a decade earlier.
🇺🇸 iHeartRadio and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; iHeartRadio is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of iHeartRadio?
The parent company of iHeartRadio is iHeartMedia, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is iHeartRadio American?
Yes. iHeartRadio originated in the United States in 2008 and its owner, iHeartMedia, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is iHeartRadio still owned by iHeartMedia?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, iHeartRadio is still owned by iHeartMedia. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] iHeartMedia, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-02 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 2 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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