SiriusXM introduced the launch of a brand new Freakonomics Radio Community streaming channel. For this channel, the primary to be devoted to a podcast, the group behind Freakonomics Radio, one of the vital enduring and in style podcasts on the planet, will curate and current episodes from its deep archive, together with choices from different in style reveals on the Freakonomics Radio Community, together with No Silly Questions, Folks I (Largely) Admire, Freakonomics, M.D., and new applications to be launched later this yr.
The Freakonomics Radio Community streaming channel is out there to subscribers now on the SXM App.
For over a decade, Freakonomics Radio has delivered storytelling and reporting that’s each rigorous and entertaining. Hosted by Stephen J. Dubner, the present takes a curious-minded, data-driven strategy to exploring real-world habits and uncovering “the hidden facet of every little thing.” Getting into its twelfth yr as one of many largest podcasts on the planet, Freakonomics Radio is now rising sooner than it ever has earlier than, setting a listenership file in 2021.
SiriusXM’s Freakonomics Radio Community channel is the one place the place listeners can tune in 24/7 to listen to not solely the newest episodes of Freakonomics Radio, but in addition a number of provocative classics from the present’s 500-episode archive like, “Abortion and Crime, Revisited”, “The Economics of Sleep”, and “The Stupidest Factor You Can Do With Your Cash.”
“The SiriusXM viewers is amazingly massive and numerous,” mentioned Stephen Dubner, “and we will’t wait to get our stuff of their ears.”
“It’s thrilling to have the ability to take a present as groundbreaking and profitable as Freakonomics Radio and provides listeners, new and previous, a wholly distinctive solution to expertise it,” mentioned Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content material Officer. “We are able to’t consider a greater accomplice to launch this first-of-its-kind streaming channel with than Stephen and his group.”
Along with its flagship present, the Freakonomics Radio Community produces a number of the most listened-to podcasts – for a mixed attain of over 160 million listeners final yr. They embrace No Silly Questions, the place Dubner and co-host psychologist Angela Duckworth discover the strange methods during which people behave; Folks I (Largely) Admire, during which the unorthodox economist Stephen Levitt speaks with different excessive achievers to ask questions that solely he would suppose to ask; and Freakonomics, M.D., hosted by Bapu Jena, an economist and doctor who explores the intersection of economics and healthcare.
The Freakonomics Radio Community channel is simply the newest instance of SiriusXM’s dedication to offering a number of platforms for audio creators. Lately, the hosts of the award-winning horror comedy podcast Final Podcast on the Left launched Open Traces, a dwell weekly call-in present on SiriusXM’s Faction Discuss (channel 103) after bringing their podcast again to vast distribution by means of Stitcher; and the favored recommendation professional, host, and digital creator Tinx launched the It’s Me, Tinx Stay radio present on SiriusXM Stars (channel 109) following her chart-topping Stitcher podcast, It’s Me, Tinx.
Streaming entry is included with all of SiriusXM’s trials and hottest plans. Subscribers can pay attention with the SXW app and with Amazon Alexa, the Google Assistant or nevertheless they stream at residence. Go to www.siriusxm.com/ways-to-listen to study extra.
