NEW YORK, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
provide listeners nationwide with comprehensive coverage of the
2016 NFL Draft, with live coverage of every selection from every
round, as well as four days of special programming – across several
channels – live from Chicago.
From the first round on Thursday, April
28, through the final round on Saturday, April 30, SiriusXM NFL Radio (channel
88) will broadcast live from the 2016 NFL Draft as it happens at
Chicago's Auditorium Theatre of
Roosevelt University (coverage airs
Thursday and Friday from 6:00 pm –
midnight ET; Saturday from noon –
7:00 pm ET). Listeners will
hear the live announcements of all 32 teams' selections through all
seven rounds, as well as interviews with NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell and dozens of
draftees, general managers and coaches.
SiriusXM NFL Radio's on-site broadcast team in the Auditorium
Theatre will feature:
- Gil Brandt, former
longtime player personnel executive for the Dallas Cowboys
- Pat Kirwan, former NFL
scout, coach and front-office executive
- Jim Miller, former
veteran NFL quarterback
- Phil Savage, former
college coach and NFL general manager
- Jason Horowitz, lead host
for SiriusXM's Draft coverage
From Wednesday, April 27 through
Saturday, April 30, SiriusXM will
supplement its NFL Draft coverage with several special programs
originating live from Chicago:
- Chicago native Jenny McCarthy will host her SiriusXM show,
Dirty, Sexy, Funny with Jenny
McCarthy from Draft-Town in Grant Park on Thursday (5:00 to 7:00 pm ET; the show will air on SiriusXM
Stars, channel 109, on Friday, April
29 at 10:00 am ET).
Jim Miller, who played quarterback
for the Bears from 1998 through 2002, will join McCarthy on the
show.
- On Wednesday, Jim Miller and
Pat Kirwan will broadcast from NFL
Play 60 in Grant Park
(11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET on SiriusXM NFL Radio). Later
that night, Gil Brandt and
Alex Marvez will host live
(8:00 – 11:00 pm ET on SiriusXM NFL
Radio) from the NFL Draft Eve Party. Both broadcasts will
feature interviews with NFL legends, current players and prospects
in attendance.
- On Thursday and Friday, Miller and Kirwan will host their daily
SiriusXM NFL Radio show, Movin' the Chains, from
Grant Park starting at
3:00 pm ET and leading into each
day's Draft coverage.
- On Saturday former Tennessee Titans lineman Brad Hopkins, who was that franchise's first
round pick in 1993, and Alex Marvez
will host a special NFL Draft-focused show live from Grant Park (2:00 to
4:00 pm ET on Mad Dog Sports Radio, channel 82).
- SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio (XM channel 87 and Sirius channel
210) will also be in Chicago,
broadcasting live from Grant Park
all three days of the Draft. The channel's coverage will air
Thursday (8:00 pm to midnight ET),
Friday (7:00 to 11:00 pm ET) and
Saturday (noon to 7:00 pm ET)
featuring pick by pick analysis from a fantasy football
perspective. Hosts John
Hansen, Jeff Mans,
Mike Dempsey, Bob Harris, Pilar
Lastra, Brandon Marianne
Lee and Jeff
Ratcliffe will all be part of the coverage, airing live
in front of the fans at Draft-Town.
As the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, SiriusXM
airs live play-by-play of every NFL game from the pre-season
through the Super Bowl. All NFL games are available to
SiriusXM subscribers on their satellite radios. Those
subscribers with the SiriusXM All Access package – which includes
satellite radio and internet listening – also get authenticated
access to every NFL game via the SiriusXM app and at
SiriusXM.com.
About SiriusXM
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radio company measured by revenue and has more than 30 million
subscribers. SiriusXM creates and offers commercial-free
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in SiriusXM Canada which has approximately 2.7 million subscribers.
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to major automakers, giving customers access to a suite of safety,
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