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Funny...I thought it was a rock station in Washington, DC.

Radio 3 - great classical music and discussion about the history and styles and composers

What would you estimate is the listenership/popularity of each channel? When you mentioned Radio 3, I was reminded of an old "Yes Prime Minister" episode from 1988 entitled, "The Tangled Web." Sir Humphrey asks permission to go on BBC Radio 3 to participate in one of a series of interviews with public officials about the structure of government. Prime Minister Hacker expresses concern over this due to the potential for embarrassing gaffes, statements in contradiction of policy, etc. Hacker's private secretary, Bernard, assures him that it won't be a problem, because it will be on Radio 3, so therefore no one will be listening.

(cue laugh track)

But seriously, as some U.S. Slashdotters will point out, it's much easier to have 5 or 6 quality channels of radio programming in the greater London area, or even via several networked transmitter sites across England, than it is to cover an entire continent like would be necessary here in the States, especially if regional tastes and scattered listener population are taken into account. How does the BBC handle, for example, programming in rural England, or even Scotland and Wales? I've heard that some of the programming intended for England is pre-empted by specific Scottish and Welsh programming to appeal to listeners in those areas. Are they successful in doing so?

Our public broadcasting system (TV and Radio) is probably the closest to the BBC that we have here in the U.S. In fact, that's how I was able to watch the Yes Minister episode described above. Public radio is probably the last service available, as both commercial radio and cellular telephone service fade out as you wander into some of the more rural areas of the U.S., like northern Maine, or the panhandle of Nebraska.

As for the principal topic of this discussion, satellite radio, I've been an XM subscriber since 2003. I almost feel as if it was a service designed with a listener like me in mind. Deep Tracks reminds me of the "Seven Sides at Seven" on Sunday nights on DC 101. Some combination of Fred, Ethyl and Lucy compensates for the sad loss of WHFS. And it can all be heard in Northern Maine and the panhandle of Nebraska.

That's nothing. Every time I see WWDC I visualize DC101 (WWDC FM, Washington).

Don't you mean Yattabytes?

The Nehibore of the SIM Family. She's old. She's mean and she hates kids.

This is one of those teacher who looks like a really boring woman, but if you take away the glasses and gives her another haircut, shes a really sexy top model!

He and his sister Mara are inseperable and very much alike...being that they are twins. But he really looks up to his older sister...and likes to copy her by wearing his PJ's all day (when he's home).

She loves hanging out in her room giving herself makeovers and watching movies in her undies...with popcorn....ahhh the life of a girl.

Loves walks by the beach and loves kids. She just needs a husband and she's set.

Here is Washington we have a turd of a DJ named Jon Ballard on local cock rock station DC101 and one day when I was visiting Detroit on a business trip I heard him there too. WTF?!
The Detroit Free Press has a story about it Not so much that he's on two stations, just that he's such bad DJ that the world gets cursed at least twice with his presence.

Corporate Radio Sucks...Listen to this instead

I thought Apple was snapping up DC-101 for iTunes...