The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Colin Cowherd, one of the most thought-provoking sports hosts in the country, joined FOX Sports and Premiere Networks in September 2015 as a television, radio, and digital personality. Cowherd’s three-hour sports talk program, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, airs simultaneously on FS1 and the FOX Sports Radio Network on weekdays and is available on more than 250 stations nationwide, as well as www.FOXSportsRadio.com and its dedicated iHeartRadio station, available live and throughout the day.
Cowherd’s podcasts on iTunes, including the “Best of The Herd” and “Full Show,” consistently rank atop the Sports & Recreation category. The Herd also ranks No. 1 among sports podcasts on iHeartRadio, and the show’s 24/7 iHeartRadio channel The Herd regularly amasses more than one million listening hours each month. Clips of The Herd have garnered more than 1.4 billion video views since September 2015 via Facebook, YouTube, FOXSports.com, the live-streaming FOX Sports Go app, and Twitter video player.
In February 2018, Cowherd launched The Herd Podcast Network. Debuting on iHeartRadio and other podcast platforms, the Network features Cowherd’s daily and weekly podcasts, which generated nearly 100 million downloads in the past year, as well as other podcasts hand-picked and curated by Cowherd, including 3 and Out with John Middlekauff, an NFL and college football-themed program; All Ball with Doug Gottlieb, a college basketball and NBA podcast; and a baseball-themed podcast, Inside the (Rob) Parker.
On television, Cowherd appears on FOX NFL Kickoff, the Sunday morning NFL pregame show leading into FOX NFL Sunday, and contributes to coverage of many of FOX Sports’ marquee events.
Previously, Cowherd was the host of ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, airing nationally on weekdays and simulcast on ESPNU. Before joining ESPN, Cowherd hosted a popular three-hour morning drive program, The Herd, at KFXX 910-AM in Portland, Ore.
Cowherd also hosted Colin’s New Football Show on ESPN2 in 2013 and 2014, in addition to a variety of programs on ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN Classic. He was the original co-host of SportsNation on ESPN2. Cowherd joined ESPN Radio in 2004 when his program launched as an hour-long broadcast on the West Coast. He also anchored weeknight sports and Sports Sunday for KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8. Cowherd’s rise in the industry also includes serving as a sports anchor at Tampa’s WTVT-TV, where he received a local Sports Emmy for Buc Sunday, and as sports director at KVBC-TV in Las Vegas, where he earned multiple Nevada Sportscaster of the Year awards. He began his career as the play-by-play voice for the Pacific Coast League’s Las Vegas Stars baseball team.
In 2013, Cowherd’s first book, You HERD Me! was a New York Times bestseller, spending five weeks on the list in hardcover. His second book, Raw: My 100% Grade-A, Unfiltered, Inside Look at Sports, was released in October 2015. In August 2015, Rogue Ales & Spirits, based in Newport, Ore., partnered with Cowherd to release “Blunt N’ Bitter” microbrew – the official beverage of Cowherd and The Herd.
A native of Grayland, Wash., Cowherd graduated in 1985 from Eastern Washington University, where he got his broadcasting start. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Ann, and has two children.
