In news first reported by Awful Announcing a week ago, Turner Sports and SiriusXM Satellite Radio today made official the launch of Bleacher Report Radio.

The move has been in the works for some time, but will finally come to fruition on September 2nd.  Bleacher Report Radio moves from its 11-2 ET slot on Sirius 92 to Channel 93, where it will become a full-time station.

More from the joint announcement…

SiriusXM and Bleacher Report today announced the upcoming launch of SiriusXM Bleacher Report Radio, a new satellite radio channel debuting September 2 that will deliver engaging content from one of the leading digital sports destinations to a nationwide audience of listeners. 

Airing on Sirius channel 93 and XM channel 208, the exclusive new channel will showcase a variety of Bleacher Report voices and give sports fans from coast to coast a live, interactive forum to discuss their teams, topics and events with experts from every major sport. SiriusXM Bleacher Report Radio will also be available to subscribers via the SiriusXM Internet Radio App. 

Bleacher Report, a division of Turner Broadcasting, is the leading digital destination for team-specific sports content and real-time event coverage and is one of the fastest-growing digital properties in the U.S. SiriusXM began airing a daily Bleacher Report-branded show in 2013. The programming now expands to a full channel that will reach more than 26 million SiriusXM subscribers nationwide.

The SiriusXM Bleacher Report Radio channel will feature a daily lineup of shows hosted by some of Bleacher Report’s most prominent voices, including Will Carroll, King Kaufman, Dan Levy and Josh Zerkle, as well as daily contributions from B/R’s deep roster of writers and contributors. Featured hosts will also include former NFL linebacker Kirk Morrison, broadcaster Nicole Zaloumis and others.

Here’s what we know about the daily B/R Radio lineup.  There’s still a gap in the mid-afternoon slot as well as evenings if B/R hopes to go live throughout the day..

7-10 ET: Josh Zerkle and Dan Levy
10-1 ET: Nicole Zaloumis
3-6 ET: Will Carroll and Jason Goff
6-7 ET: King Kaufman

This is a huge, huge, huge opportunity for Bleacher Report writers to be given an additional platform in which to grow.  It remains to be seen whether the channel will feature predominantly B/R writers, or whether it will seek to expand beyond that realm and try to compete with the other national sports radio offerings in existence.  In recent years we’ve seen Fox, NBC, and CBS all boost their 24/7 radio offerings and now Turner Sports, through Bleacher Report, is another entry in an increasingly crowded field.

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