NEW YORK, April 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today
SiriusXM announced the first initiative in delivering its
unparalleled talk programming to Pandora's broad audience. Starting
now, content from select SiriusXM shows extending across
entertainment, talk, comedy, music, and sports, will be available
to all Pandora listeners as podcasts.
At launch, this content will reach more than 100 million audio
listeners and subscribers of Pandora and SiriusXM. Located within
the new Podcasts on Pandora offering, users will be able to
enjoy content from some of SiriusXM's most popular entertainment
shows, including "Andy Cohen's
Deep & Shallow Interviews," featuring Cohen's best
conversations of the week; "Jenny
McCarthy's Celebrity Dirt," sharing highlights of
McCarthy dishing about the latest Hollywood scandals; "The Jason Ellis
Show," playing top moments of the week; and "The Hoda
Show," a full, commercial-free podcast of Hoda Kotb's SiriusXM program, and much more.
Podcasts on Pandora leverages unrivaled listener-personalization
technology to serve up podcast recommendations that are unique to
each user's tastes.
For those seeking motivation, the "Joel Osteen" podcast
will be available on Pandora. Pastor of America's largest church,
Osteen, who also has his own SiriusXM channel, will deliver his
moving Lakewood messages in full
each week.
Comedy fans will be able to hear from some of the world's most
beloved comics. "Straight from The Hart with Kevin Hart," "Ricky
Gervais Is Deadly Sirius," and "Larry the Cable Guy
Weekly Roundup" will be available on Pandora as commercial-free
podcasts each week, while "A Comic Mind Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy" will be monthly. Program
highlights from "Jim Norton &
Sam Roberts" will also be
available weekly.
For compelling talk shows about music and artists, users can
catch the best moments of the week from "Trunk Nation" with
Eddie Trunk, "Debatable" with
Mark Goodman and Alan Light, and "Feedback" with
Nik Carter and Lori Majewski; as well as the top long-form
segments of "Sway in the Morning."
Among the nearly two dozen new podcasts on Pandora will be
highlights from some of SiriusXM's top sports programs, including
"Mad Dog Unleashed," featuring Christopher 'Mad Dog' Russo's
daily opening rant and top segment of the day; "Schein on
Sports," another daily podcast offering Adam Schein's opening monologue; and "Busted
Open," a daily "best of" podcast for pro wrestling fans.
"We're excited that some of our most popular talk shows are now
being made available to Pandora users," said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief
Content Officer. "This will be a great opportunity for new
audiences to discover these SiriusXM shows, while providing Pandora
with great programming, as we continue to collaborate on content
opportunities for both platforms."
Click here to see the full list of podcasts available
on Pandora.
The announcement of select SiriusXM talk programs becoming
available as podcasts on Pandora follows the recent launch of
Pandora NOW, the first content offering available exclusively to
both SiriusXM and Pandora listeners to capture the essence of what
people are listening to now, and deliver today's hottest and
top-trending music hits across all genres.
SiriusXM subscribers with streaming access can listen to
SiriusXM's 200+ channels at home on a wide variety of connected
devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV, Sony
PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and
more. Go to www.SiriusXM.com/AtHome to learn
more.
About Pandora
Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the leading music and
podcast discovery platform, providing a uniquely-personalized
listening experience to approximately 70 million users each month
with its proprietary Music Genome Project ® and Podcast Genome
Project ® technology - whether at home or on the go - through its
mobile app, the web, and integrations with more than 2,000
connected products. As the largest streaming music provider in the
U.S., with an industry-leading digital audio advertising platform,
Pandora connects listeners with the music and podcasts they love
the most.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world's largest
audio entertainment company, and the premier programmer and
platform for subscription- and advertising-supported audio
products. With the recent addition of Pandora, the largest
streaming music provider in the U.S., SiriusXM reaches more than
100 million people with its audio products. For more about the new
SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.
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