NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM and
ESPN are teaming up to deliver an exclusive 24/7 college sports
channel, programmed by SiriusXM, that will give fans the most
comprehensive and in-depth college sports coverage
available. ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM (channel 84) will
debut Thursday, August 31, and will
be available exclusively to SiriusXM subscribers via satellite
radios, the SiriusXM app and on connected devices including smart
TVs, Amazon Alexa devices and Sony PlayStation.
ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM will combine the talented college
sports hosts and analysts from both companies. It will continue to
feature SiriusXM's long-running daily college sports programs
The First Team (weekdays, 7-10 am
ET), Full Ride (weekdays, 10am-1pm ET), Playbook (weekdays,
1-4pm ET) and Off Campus
(weekdays, 4-7pm ET), as well as the
weekend shows College Sports Sunday and College Football
Sunday.
SiriusXM hosts and analysts on the channel include Greg McElroy, Rick
Neuheisel, Steve Spurrier,
Phil Savage, Jonathan Vilma, Ryan
Leaf, James Laurinaitis,
A.J. Hawk, Danny Kanell, Brad
Hopkins, Charles Arbuckle,
Tom Brennan, Bobby Cremins, Fran
Fraschilla, Seth Greenberg,
Steve Lappas, Taylor Zarzour, Mark
Packer, Chris Childers,
Rachel Baribeau, Andy Staples, David
Moulton and Braden Gall.
Throughout each week, ESPN's college sports talent will join the
channel to provide analysis and discuss the topics of the day. ESPN
college football analyst Kirk
Herbstreit and college basketball analyst Jay Bilas will appear weekly on ESPNU Radio on
SiriusXM throughout their respective seasons. Other high profile
ESPN commentators and analysts will also be heard regularly on the
channel.
ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM will simulcast ESPN shows including the
popular College Gameday live each Saturday morning during
the college football season, the College Football Top 25
Show, College Football Live Daily, College Basketball
Gameday and others. The channel will also broadcast some
of the year's biggest college sporting events live, including the
College Football Playoff Semifinal and National Championship games,
which will also air on ESPN Radio, channel 80.
The channel will now be the exclusive home for the first run of
several ESPN college sports podcasts including those hosted by
Kirk Herbstreit and Ian Fitzsimmons, Jay
Bilas, Dan Dakich and
Seth Greenberg.
ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM will also broadcast live on location
from select College Gameday destinations, and special events
including the College Football Playoff Semifinals and National
Championship.
"SiriusXM has been a strong partner with us for 16 years now,"
said Traug Keller, senior vice president, Audio and Talent, ESPN.
"With this new extension, we look forward to continuing to bring
our unique and diverse content to SiriusXM. The addition of ESPNU
Radio to SiriusXM's lineup will bring ESPNU's signature perspective
and the sounds of the game to a broader swath of fans."
"With fans in all corners of the country eagerly anticipating
the start of college football season, we are very excited to
collaborate with ESPN to deliver those fans the country's most
comprehensive college sports audio channel," said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief
Content Officer. "ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM showcases an
extraordinary team of hosts and analysts from both SiriusXM and
ESPN and fans can get it virtually anywhere – in the car, at home,
or on the go. This is an exciting expansion of our longstanding
broadcast agreement, which continues to give our subscribers access
to ESPN's top notch array of programming and platforms on ESPN
Radio, ESPN Xtra and now ESPNU Radio."
ESPN and SiriusXM have signed a five-year extension of their
comprehensive content distribution agreement. SiriusXM subscribers
will continue to hear the ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes Radio
channels, as well as the exclusive ESPN Xtra channel, which
simulcasts several shows including First Take, the
forthcoming show hosted by Mike
Greenberg, The Paul Finebaum Show, the soon-to-debut
program hosted by Bomani Jones and
Pablo Torre, audio broadcasts of
ESPN Films' acclaimed 30 for 30 documentaries, 30 for
30 podcasts, SC Featured and more. The agreement also
extends SiriusXM's rights to broadcast a host of live sports events
including the College Football Playoff and other college football
bowl games, the NBA regular season and NBA Finals and more.
About ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio, the country's largest sports radio network,
ESPN Deportes Radio, and ESPN Podcasts comprise ESPN Audio.ESPN
Audio launched its first podcast in 2005 and tallied nearly 293
million downloads in 2016. ESPN Audio podcasts cover the
spectrum of sports content and most popular titles include
Fantasy Focus Football, The Lowe Post and FiveThirtyEight
Politics, as well as podcast versions of Mike & Mike,
The Dan LeBatard Show, First Take, Pardon the Interruption,
Baseball Tonight, and Around The Horn.
ESPN Radio, which launched January 1, 1992, provides more than 9,000 hours
of talk and event content annually, reaching 20 million listeners a
week on 500 nationwide stations, including more than 375 full-time
affiliates and clearance in the top 25 markets. ESPN owns
and/or operates stations in New
York, Los Angeles, and
Chicago. ESPN Radio programming is also available on SiriusXM
and via digital distributors Apple Music, Slacker Radio and
TuneIn.
About ESPNU
ESPNU launched March 4,
2005. The 24-hour college sports television network
televises more than 650 live events annually. Action includes a
variety of top football and men's and women's basketball games, as
well as Olympic sports from 26 Division I conferences. ESPNU is the
destination for premier collegiate and high school programming,
including elite football, basketball, baseball, softball and
lacrosse events. ESPNU, as part of ESPN's wide-ranging agreement
with the NCAA, has extensive coverage of NCAA Championship events.
It is also the television home for ESPN Radio's The Dan LeBatard
Show and the new Golic and Wingo show, which debuts in
January.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world's largest
radio company measured by revenue and has more than 32 million
subscribers. SiriusXM creates and offers commercial-free music;
premier sports talk and live events; comedy; news; exclusive talk
and entertainment, and a wide-range of Latin music, sports and talk
programming. SiriusXM is available in vehicles from every major car
company and on smartphones and other connected devices as well as
online at siriusxm.com. SiriusXM radios and accessories are
available from retailers nationwide and online at SiriusXM.
SiriusXM also provides premium traffic, weather, data and
information services for subscribers through SiriusXM Traffic™,
SiriusXM Travel Link, NavTraffic®, NavWeather™. SiriusXM delivers
weather, data and information services to aircraft and boats
through SiriusXM Aviation™ and SiriusXM Marine™. In addition,
SiriusXM Music for Business provides commercial-free music to a
variety of businesses. SiriusXM holds a minority interest in
SiriusXM Canada which has approximately 2.8 million subscribers.
SiriusXM is also a leading provider of connected vehicles services,
giving customers access to a suite of safety, security, and
convenience services including automatic crash notification, stolen
vehicle recovery assistance, enhanced roadside assistance and
turn-by-turn navigation.
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http://www.siriusxm.com/LogosAndPhotos.
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