Hangar Studios didn’t start with permission, it started with a hunch.
In April 2009, before “podcasting” was even the word, we saw the shift coming. Back then they called it audioblogging. We called it the future. On demand. On-the-go. Unfiltered. While everyone else was chasing traditional media, Hangar Studios was being built for what was next.
Founder Jennifer Chernicky walked away from a lucrative career in marketing and small-business consulting to take a risk. She launched Hangar Studios out of a cramped back room in Chelsea, Manhattan. No safety net. No roadmap. Just conviction. That move made Hangar one of the earliest podcast production companies in the world and the first owned and operated by a woman of color.
Since then, we haven’t slowed down. Over 600 clients. Thousands of episodes. More than 50 million listeners worldwide. We traded square footage for reach, pivoted early to remote production, and now operate globally from our Manhattan studio.
But scale without innovation is just noise. That’s why we keep pushing most recently with immersive 3D and binaural audio that changes how stories feel, not just how they sound.
Hangar Studios is also a proud partner of Podcast Taxonomy, helping set the standard for how podcast creators are recognized and credited.