Subscribers get live play-by-play of the 89th
All Star Game, SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game and other events from
Nationals Park
MLB Commissioner Rob
Manfred sits down with Chris "Mad Dog" Russo for a special
SiriusXM Town Hall at the Library of Congress
NEW YORK, July 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
offer baseball fans comprehensive coverage of Major League
Baseball's 2018 All-Star Week, featuring live play-by-play of the
89th All-Star Game Presented by Mastercard, an exclusive
SiriusXM Town Hall broadcast with Commissioner Rob Manfred, and numerous other live broadcasts
from Washington D.C.
On Sunday, July 15, SiriusXM will
have the exclusive radio broadcast of the SiriusXM All-Star Futures
Game, featuring the top minor league prospects from the U.S. facing
off against their counterparts from around the world. Pre-game
coverage on the MLB Network Radio channel (XM channel 89 and Sirius
channel 209) will begin from Washington's Nationals Park at 2:00 pm ET with a special edition of Minors
& Majors hosted by Grant
Paulsen. MLB Network Radio's broadcast of the SiriusXM
All-Star Futures Game will begin at 4:00 pm
ET and will feature Mike
Ferrin as the play-by-play voice and former MLB GM
Jim Duquette as the analyst. Before,
during and after the game, former MLB GM Jim Bowden and Grant
Paulsen will report from the World Team and Team
USA dugouts.
Also on Sunday, Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. will sit down with
SiriusXM's Chris "Mad Dog" Russo for a special SiriusXM Town Hall
broadcast in front of a live audience at the Library of Congress.
Manfred will answer questions from Russo and the SiriusXM
subscribers in the audience, talk about the state of the game at
the season's midpoint, and discuss the All-Star festivities. The
Town Hall will be taped and will air nationwide on MLB Network
Radio on Monday, July 16 at
1:00 pm ET.
"MLB All-Star Week is a great showcase for baseball and we're
looking forward to being in the nation's capital to bring the
excitement of all the All-Star Week events to fans nationwide,"
said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's
President and Chief Content Officer. "It's a special week of
programming for our subscribers, highlighted in particular this
year by what will be a very special Town Hall conversation
involving Commissioner Manfred, Chris
Russo and our subscribers at the Library of Congress."
SiriusXM will air the national broadcast of both the All-Star
Game on Tuesday, July 17 at
8:00 pm ET and the T-Mobile Home Run
Derby on Monday, July 16 at
8:00 pm ET, live on MLB Network
Radio. Pre- and post-event coverage will air from Nationals Park
both days beginning at 5:00 pm ET,
hosted by Casey Stern, Jim Bowden, Jim
Duquette and former major league outfielder Matt Diaz, who will interview many of the
All-Stars in attendance.
On Saturday, July 14 (4:00-7:00 pm ET) MLB Network Radio will feature
its annual mid-season roundtable broadcast, which this year will
include former major leaguer Eduardo
Perez, former GMs Jim Duquette, Steve Phillips and Jim
Bowden, and Mike Ferrin,
Casey Stern and Grant Paulsen.
Chris Russo will also host his
daily all-sports show, Mad Dog Unleashed (Mad Dog Sports
Radio, SiriusXM channel 82) live from Nationals Park on
Monday, July 16 and Tuesday, July 17 at 5:00
pm ET, prior to the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game.
Russo's daily MLB Network TV show, High Heat with Christopher Russo, will also originate from
Washington those days. High
Heat will air live on MLB Network on Monday and Tuesday at
4:00 pm ET.
On Wednesday, July 18
(1:00 pm ET), the day after the
All-Star festivities, MLB Network Radio will present a special on
the former Montreal Expos franchise and their relocation to
Washington, D.C after the 2004
season to become the Washington Nationals. Hosted by Mike Ferrin, the show will feature commentary
from guests including former Expos player and Hall of Famer
Tim Raines, former Expos managers,
GMs and coaches Buck Rodgers,
Dan Duquette, Kevin Malone and Kevin
Kennedy, and acclaimed baseball journalist Peter Gammons. The special will replay several
times on the channel and be available on SiriusXM On Demand.
MLB game broadcasts, and the MLB Network Radio and Mad Dog
Sports Radio channels, are available to subscribers nationwide on
SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online,
on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide
variety of connected devices, including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa
devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more.
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