Slacker Radio bringing music, sport, comedy and more to the Xbox 360

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Slacker Radio has appear plans to arrive on the Xbox 360. The service, which is already available on Windows Telephone (see our review), will bring music and content to Xbox Live Golden subscribers. The free radio app volition be made bachelor on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and volition pack Kinect features for gestures and voice commands to be supported.

Over 200 music stations are included in the lineup, with the likes of ESPN and ABC News headlining the selection. Each station tin be personalised, ensuring a unique and relevant experience is possible for each user. The catalogue of non simply music, but comedy, news and sport content makes Slacker Radio a varied experience with a reportedly 10x larger selection than Pandora.

Check out the press release after the break.

Slacker Radio Announces App for Microsoft Xbox 360

World's Top-Selling Console Will Soon Enable Millions of Customers to Access Slacker in their Living Room with Vocalisation and Gestures via Kinect

SAN DIEGO – June iv, 2022 – Slacker, Inc. announced at E3 today that its personal radio service will be coming later this year to the Xbox 360® console in the United states and Canada. The free Slacker Radio application volition exist available every bit an app in the Xbox Alive Marketplace.

Slacker Radio volition give Xbox Live® Golden subscribers the ultimate music and content discovery at their fingertips. The Slacker Radio lineup includes a fully customizable pick of over 200 music stations curated and hosted past expert programmers, ESPN Radio and ABC News, one-act, artist-hosted showcases and official stations for leading music festivals including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Every station tin can exist fully personalized, ensuring a unique and relevant experience for each listener

"Xbox 360 brings games and amusement to our customers and Slacker Radio brings a massive selection of radio stations programmed by expert DJs," said Kathy Styponias, general manager of Media & Amusement Group, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft Corp. "By accessing Slacker Radio on Xbox with the power of Kinect and the intelligence of Bing phonation search, we're making music and entertainment more personal, social and effortless."

Slacker Radio for Xbox 360 features a broad range of fully customizable music and non-music content. This includes branded news, sports and comedy, making it the nigh varied and compelling range of personalized content offered by whatever radio service while also featuring a music catalog that is x times larger than Pandora.

"Slacker Radio and Xbox 360, with voice and gesture controls via Kinect, change interactive radio as we know it," said Jonathan Sasse, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Slacker. "The Xbox 360 console brings your favorite music and radio content from adept DJ's to your living room, y'all can get Slacker Radio nigh anywhere from your automobile, web, home or mobile device, Slacker is everywhere you listen to radio."

In add-on to Xbox 360, Slacker Radio is also currently available for listening on the web, on all major smartphones including Windows Phone® seven, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, the iPad, continued domicile devices, Ford vehicles with SYNC® powered by Microsoft and the recently announced Windows® 8 Slacker app.

Near Slacker, Inc.
Slacker offers the earth's nearly complete range of radio services, from millions of songs to custom content from ESPN Radio, ABC News and much more. Whether it'southward the accolade-winning free Slacker Basic Radio, the fully-loaded Slacker Radio Plus, or Slacker Premium offering on-need access to Slacker'due south music itemize, listeners enjoy a unique, custom listening experience. Slacker enables music lovers to play highly personalized music online at the Slacker web site, in Ford vehicles with SYNC AppLink, on connected home devices or on-the-go with free Slacker Personal Radio applications. Slacker mobile applications are bachelor for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry smartphones and more. For additional information visit: http://www.Slacker.com/well-nigh.

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