The Roadhouse was a Classic Country

Classic country

Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country hits from past decades.This genre generally follows one of two formats: those specializing in hits from the 1920s through the early 1970s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden...

 radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...

 channel 62, XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

 channel 10 and DISH Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

 channel 6062. As of February 9, 2010, Direct TV dropped Sirius XM programming in favor of SonicTap.

Originally airing only on Sirius, the channel was added to the XM platform (replacing XM's America

America (XM)

America was a channel on the XM Satellite Radio network that specialized in playing classic country music. It was available on channel 10 on XM and channel 808 on DirecTV...

) in November 2008.

From December 7-December 25, 2009, the Roadhouse was temporarily pre-empted for "Country Christmas", a format of country Christmas music

Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.-Early:...

.

On May 4, 2011, The Roadhouse and Willie's Place was merged to make Willie's Roadhouse. Willie's Roadhouse will take over the Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...

 broadcasts on Friday and Saturday nights.

Programs

• Bill Anderson Visits with the Legends, Country Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson
  Bill Anderson (country music)
  James William Anderson III , better known as Bill Anderson, is an American country music singer, songwriter and television personality. He has released more than 40 studio albums and has reached No...
  
   talks with and looks at influential moments and people in the history of country music.
• The Grand Ole Opry, encore presentations of the Grand Ole Opry performances, which aired live on Nashville!
  Nashville!
  Nashville! was a commercial radio channel on XM Satellite Radio. It was located on XM 57 and lays a wide range of country music hits from the early 1990s through today. The channel was programmed out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Advertising sales are handled by Premiere Radio Networks...
  
  XM11.