>I have to ask, what do you like to listen to that you couldn't find 1 station that fit your criteria?
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Both my car and kitchen radios are usually on NPR. They get switched for baseball and, to a lesser extent, football (which I'd rather watch on TV than listen to).

Musically, I like an eclectic mix of music from the 50's on forward, plus classical and some Broadway. (My iPod playlist ranges from Beethoven and Mozart to Buddy Holly to Meat Loaf.)

We only had the Sirius rental for about a day, so it might have been that over time, we'd have found a few stations worth returning to, but I found the "channel-flipping" I did in that car no more productive than scanning the on-air stations for something to listen to.

Years and years ago (in the days before cars had even cassette players), when Marshal and I took long car trips, we developer our "two-song" test. If we found a station playing something we liked, we listen and then see what came next. If there were two in a row we liked, we'd leave the car on that station, even through ads, until either it became clear that was an aberration or we got out of range. I don't think any of the Sirius stations passed the two-song test. (FWIW, few over-the-air stations do, either, these days.)

Tamar