Motorola iRadio® listeners can now customize their news radio experience by choosing from a wide selection of local, national and international news reports.

Available whenever and wherever listeners want to tune in, current news, business and lifestyle stories from local sources will be read by Taldia, Inc.’s voice over professionals and made available on the iRadio network.The new channels will be powered by Taldia and Taldia’s content partners, including local US newspapers and the Associated Press. The audio content will span business, sports, entertainment, top news, technology, health, U.S. and International events, politics, science and key stories of the day. Localized content will include news from large regional newspapers such as the Orange County Register, as well as from small community papers like the The Eagle (Texas).

The announcement adds to Motorola iRadio’s growing collection of local and regional, providing subscribers with a diverse array of coverage and opinions. 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 over 600 channels of music and talk, best-selling audio book content, educational and language courses, self-help programs, local news and weather, classic radio shows, all alongside your personal digital music collection. Motorola iRadio is currently in consumer and partner trials in several major US cities.