Alexa, play SiriusXM's Howard Stern station

Jefferson Graham | USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — Alexa, play Sirius XM for me.

The satellite radio subscription service today joins the offerings on Amazon’s Echo speaker, with its 200 channels that include music, sports and talk show host Howard Stern.

Sirius joins Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeart Radio and TuneIn radio as music choices customers can request by voice.

Ben Shepherd, head of Amazon Alexa music, said Sirius has been a major request from Echo owners. “It’s something they really wanted to listen to,” he says.

Streaming subscriptions for SiriusXM start at $15.99 monthly.

Echo is Amazon’s surprise hit line of speakers, powered by the Alexa digital assistant, and rivals Apple's Siri, the Google Assistant and Microsoft's Cortana. Siri, on the iPhone, can open up and play songs from Apple Music, while Google's Echo-like Home speaker, can play music from Google-owned YouTube, Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn and iHeart Radio.

With the Sirius channels, Echo customers will need to know which specific station they want to listen to, as there’s no current way to scroll up and down the station lineup like there is on satellite radio.

Shepherd says Amazon hopes to bring that feature eventually.

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