SiriusXM introduced a brand new settlement with impartial media and podcast firm audiochuck and its founder Ashley Flowers to launch a brand new channel solely for SiriusXM subscribers.
Anticipated early subsequent yr, the channel shall be curated by Ashley and the crew at audiochuck to current episodes from the deep archive of its flagship present Crime Junkie – one ofthe nation’s top-ranked podcasts – together with picks from its different prime rated exhibits, equivalent to Anatomy of a Homicide, The Deck, CounterClock, and Park Predators.
As well as, Ashley Flowers will host a brand new collection for the channel that includes in-depth conversations with celebrities and particular company about how they turned Crime Junkies.
“I’m extremely excited concerning the alternative of reaching completely new audiences with our content material by means of SiriusXM’s extensive attain. There has by no means been a real crime channel in audio, and I’m thrilled SiriusXM selected us to create the primary ever channel by and for Crime Junkies,” stated Ashley Flowers, audiochuck’s Founder and Chief Inventive Officer. “We have now such a deep catalog of content material to share, however I’m most excited concerning the new unique programming we’ll do particularly for SiriusXM subscribers. SiriusXM has been an unimaginable companion to us during the last two years and I’m wanting ahead to working with them in much more methods within the years to come back.”
The brand new channel and present is an enlargement of SiriusXM’s relationship with audiochuck, which began in 2021 with an settlement that offers SiriusXM exclusivity to advert gross sales rights for the community’s acclaimed and award-winning podcasts by way of SXM Media, the mixed promoting gross sales group from Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
“Ashley and her crew at audiochuck have change into the leaders within the extremely well-liked true crime podcast area by means of their ardour for high-quality audio and a storytelling model that’s each compelling to the listener and respectful of the subject material,” stated Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content material Officer. “With this new channel, and the mixed advertising energy of SiriusXM, audiochuck will be capable to tremendous serve their loyal listeners by means of a completely new solution to expertise and work together with their exhibits, whereas additional rising their fanbase by reaching audiences who could not but be podcast customers.”
This new audiochuck channel is SiriusXM’s newest endeavor to provide well-liked podcasts a brand new platform, and SiriusXM subscribers unique entry, having beforehand launched the Freakonomics Radio channel, which options programming from throughout the favored Freakonomics Radio Community catalog; in addition to the Crooked Radio takeover final yr, which introduced Crooked Media’s Pod Save America and lots of of their different hit podcasts to Progress (channel 127) within the lead as much as the midterm elections.
Extra particulars shall be introduced quickly.
