Albeit GHR is internationally syndicated - the show and its cast have a tremendous local appeal with between 620k –650k listeners respectively in the Long Island, New York market where they reside. They were nominated and voted the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Best Radio Station on Long Island over all the leading competition including terrestrial radio for four consecutive years. In 2019 GHR was nominated and voted winners in three categories... Best Radio Station on Long Island, as well as GHR's Brimstone winning Best Twitter account from Long Island and Best Long Island Personality over Billy Joel, Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin for the 2nd consecutive year. In 2022 GHR was awarded, Best Recording Studio on Long Island, and a 'Best Streaming Radio Station on Long Island' 2024​. It should also be noted that GHR's Kim Adragna was nominated for the Personality Award. Furthermore, GHR was announced as a 2018 SCORE American Small Business Awards Champion and National Grand Champion – prompting a Certificate of Recognition from NY Mayor DeBlasio.  The Grindhouse Radio was awarded the 2020 New York State Senate Empire Business Award in recognition of their repeated contributions to the community and New York State, followed by a 2021 Platinum Communitas Award for Excellence in Corporate Responsibility | Making a Difference and Brimstone awarded for Excellence in Community Service | Leadership in Individual Community Service. In 2021, GHR was awarded a Gold AVA Digital Award for Audio Production / Radio Podcast and a Gold Award of Excellence | Individual Episodes, Entertainment Podcast​ for the 27th Annual Communicator Awards, Vega Digital 'Centauri' Award for Best Podcast Series, NYX Marcom Gold Award for Audio & Podcast, SB100 - Best of Small Business Awards 2021 Award Winner, and two 2021 Platinum dotComm Awards for Audio/Radio/Web Program Original Series: Entertainment & Website: Entertainment. On social media, GHR branded GIFs have been used over 1.2 billion times via their official Giphy account. Notably, Adragna has been named a recipient of the Long Island Business News’, 30 Under 30 Award 2019, Brimstone has been listed at #2 in Podcast Magazine's 2022 - 40 Over 40 most influential podcasters, and Grindhouse Radio was a major topic of discussion at the European Planetary Science Congress 2018 – officially making them a citable source for scientific and collegiate papers. The core cast members appear regularly as expert speakers at libraries, schools, the Freelancer's Union and universities teaching various courses for podcast hopefuls, ‘how to podcast’ from nuts to bolts.