NEW YORK, July 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
offer baseball fans comprehensive coverage of Major League
Baseball's 2015 All-Star Week from Cincinnati, OH.
SiriusXM will carry the national broadcast of both the
86th All-Star Game on Tuesday,
July 14 (8:00 pm ET), and the
Gillette Home Run Derby presented by Head & Shoulders on
Monday July 13 (8:00 pm ET), live on the MLB Network Radio
channel. MLB Network Radio is available nationwide on
satellite radios (XM channel 89 and Sirius channel 209), through
the SiriusXM app and at SiriusXM.com.
MLB Network Radio will offer listeners extensive pre- and
post-event coverage from Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park for both
the All-Star Game and Gillette Home Run Derby presented by Head
& Shoulders. Hosts Casey Stern and former GMs Jim Bowden
and Jim Duquette will broadcast live
starting at 5:00 pm ET both days,
conducting one-on-one interviews with All-Stars, managers, coaches
and other personalities from around the game.
On Sunday, July 12 at 10:00 am ET, SiriusXM will present a round table
discussion hosted by Stern and featuring several MLB Network Radio
hosts/analysts – including former All-Stars Steve Sax and Mike
Stanton, former NL Rookie of the Year Todd Hollandsworth, and former general manager
Steve Phillips. The hosts will recap
the first half of the season, discuss team needs as the trade
deadline approaches, and take a look at the teams making a push for
the postseason.
This will be followed by 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. MLB Network Radio's pre-game coverage will
begin at 1:00 pm ET (Game time:
3:00 pm ET). Mike Ferrin will be the play-by-play voice for
the broadcast and Jim Duquette will
be the analyst. Jim Bowden
will report from the scouts' seats where he will talk with MLB
talent evaluators throughout the game, and Grant Paulsen will provide reports from the
dugouts and interview the players before, during and after the
game.
In addition to MLB Network Radio's All-Star Week coverage, fans
will also hear from SiriusXM's Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, who will host
his daily all-sports show, Mad Dog Unleashed (Mad Dog Sports
Radio, SiriusXM channel 85) live from Great American Ball
Park on July 13 and 14 from
5:00 to 7:00 pm ET. Russo is
scheduled to be joined on air by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on Monday at 6:00 pm ET. His daily MLB Network TV show,
High Heat with Christopher
Russo, will also originate from Cincinnati those days. High Heat
will air live on MLB Network at 4:00 pm
ET and will be simulcast on MLB Network Radio.
MLB games are available on Sirius radios with either a Premier
or All Access package and on all XM radios. Through
SiriusXM's agreement with MLBAM, MLB play-by-play is also available
to all subscribers on the SiriusXM app and online at
SiriusXM.com.
SiriusXM subscribers listening to MLB games through the SiriusXM
app or online have access to a suite of 30 play-by-play channels
dedicated to streaming the official radio broadcasts of every MLB
team. Listeners also get access to multiple Spanish-language
broadcasts. For a schedule of games in English and Spanish
with their channel assignments visit
www.SiriusXM.com/MLBschedule.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world's largest
radio broadcaster measured by revenue and has more than 27.7
million subscribers. SiriusXM creates and broadcasts
commercial-free music; premier sports talk and live events; comedy;
news; exclusive talk and entertainment; and the most comprehensive
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on smartphones and other connected devices as well as online at
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provides premium traffic, weather, data and information services
for subscribers in cars, trucks, RVs, boats and aircraft through
SiriusXM Traffic™, SiriusXM Travel Link, NavTraffic®, NavWeather™,
SiriusXM Aviation, SiriusXM Marine™, Sirius
Marine Weather, XMWX Aviation™, and XMWX Marine™.
SiriusXM holds a minority interest in SiriusXM Canada which has
more than 2 million subscribers. SiriusXM is also a leading
provider of connected vehicles services to major automakers, 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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