Millions of loyal public radio listeners in the U.S. will soon be able to tune
in to their favorite public radio programs and podcasts on-the-go and on-demand
through the Motorola iRadio service.
A lineup of award-winning content from NPR, American Public Media and Public
Radio International (PRI) takes its place amongst Motorola iRadios 600+
channels of commercial-free, CD-quality music programming.
Among the offerings are:
-- NPR podcasts such as Story of the Day, NPR Shuffle, and All Songs
Considered;
-- American Public Medias Marketplace, The Splendid Table and The Writers
Almanac with Garrison Keillor;
-- PRIs The World, Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, and Open Source.
These content additions extend the reach of leading public radio programming
to the mobile phone. iRadios robust offerings already include the entire music
catalogs from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and multiple
independent labels, as well as news, talk, and weather programming from
AccuWeather, The Associated Press, numerous local and national newspapers
powered by Taldia.
"Motorola iRadio shares the public radio systems mission to offer Americans
high quality audio content that is meaningful and relevant to their lives," said
Jeff Stinson, Senior Director of Business Development, Motorola Digital Media
Services. "We are pleased to build on listeners enjoyment of their local public
radio stations by bringing this strong slate of content to their mobile phones."
Motorola iRadio is the first digital music service to offer a truly seamless
listening experience with audio that easily transitions from one location to the
next-through the car stereo, home stereo and mobile phone. The service includes
a growing library of more than 600 channels of music and talk, best-selling
audio book content, educational and language courses, self-help programs, local
news and weather, and classic radio shows, all alongside your personal digital
music collection.
