Personalize Your Own Sports Station With Slacker

Attention sports fans, the tournament between rival music subscription services has taken another turn, with Slacker Radio adding ESPN audio content to its suite of offerings.

Mashable.com is reporting Slacker is announcing Wednesday that ESPN content — from multiple programs (national and regional), including Mike & Mike in the Morning, SportsCenter, The Herd With Colin Cowherd — will soon be available on the web, in-app and on connected devices.

Users will have the ability to get ESPN SportsCenter headlines as hourly updates on a Slacker music station, to create their own stations composed of preferred sports programming and to listen to a station comprising dedicated ESPN content.www.spotify.
Slacker also lets its users cache stations for offline listening, so this should be especially useful for underground commuters.

This addition is sure to give the service an edge over some of its competitors (like Rdio, MOG and Spotify), which do not include content aside from music. (Satellite radio services like Sirius do offer such content.)

Last summer, Slacker integrated ABC News into its stable of content, allowing users to customize their news consumption as well as incorporate it into their Slacker stations. Now the service — which is set to launch its on-demand offering soon, as well as get into the in-car game — will likely be able to appeal to a wider audience.

Those who use Slacker’s free service will have access to the ESPN station, while those who pay for the service will have unlimited access to sports content: ad-free programming, unlimited skips, the ability to personalize stations and the option to add hourly updates to other stations.

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