Chris “Mad Dog” Russo won’t be unemployed for long.

Russo, who left WFAN’s “Mike and the Mad Dog” sports talk show last Thursday after nearly 19 years, will, as expected, join Sirius XM Radio with his own sports talk show. It will be called “The Mad Dog Sports Show,” and start Sept. 15. The show will run from 2 to 7 p.m., going up against most the show of his former partner, Mike Francesa.

Russo’s show will headline “Mad Dog Radio,” a reformatted channel that will cover the spectrum of sports with engaging talk, high profile interviews, up-to-the-moment news and live remote broadcasts from the biggest sporting events.

“No other sports talk radio comes close to what I will be able to do with Sirius XM Radio. I get to create a whole channel of my kind of sports talk, and am very excited to join Sirius XM which has the largest collection of sports properties in the history of radio, consisting of virtually every major sport including, MLB, NFL, NASCAR and the NHL,” Russo said in a statement Tuesday. “With football season about to kick off and all the pennant races heating up, I can't wait to get on the air and talk to the 18.5 million Sirius XM Radio subscribers around the country.”

Russo’s show will be heard on Sirius channel 123, and XM channel 144. The two satellite radio companies recently merged.