U-Pop was a satellite radio

Satellite radio

Satellite radio is an analogue or digital radio signal that is relayed through one or more satellites and thus can be received in a much wider geographical area than terrestrial FM radio stations...

 channel programmed by Washington, DC based 1worldspace. U-Pop could originally be heard globally on WorldSpace

WorldSpace

1worldspace, formerly known as 'WorldSpace', is a currently defunct satellite radio network that provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India...

's Afristar and Asiastar satellites. The channel features hit music from around the globe including hits from Europe, Japan, Africa, America and Latin America. It is available on 1worldspace radio only.

XM Hiatus and elimination of U-Pop on XM

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...

 carried U-Pop on channel 29. The company has placed U-Pop on hiatus several times over the life of the channel and eliminated it from the lineup on November 12, 2008

2008 in radio

Several events occurred in radio in 2008.- Events :* January 2: WWFT finished Christmas music stunting, rolling out the red carpet for Adult contemporary music branded as "Warm."...

. It was replaced in XM's lineup by BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

, a similarly-formatted Europop

Europop

Europop refers to a style of pop music that first developed in today's form in Europe, throughout the late 1970s. Europop topped the charts throughout the 1980s and ’90s...

 channel on Sirius channel 11

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...

. U-Pop continued on XM Radio Online channel 31 and DirecTV

DirecTV

DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

 until Sirius XM Radio ended its contract with 1worldspace in February 2009

2009 in radio

The following events occurred in radio in 2009.- Events :* January 1: Kurdish TV starts broadcasting in Turkey.* January: Michael Smerconish, morning host at talk radio WPHT Philadelphia, begins syndication of his morning show to WHFS in Washington and WOR in New York City.* January 17: Two well...

. U-Pop was also the last XM Satellite Radio channel to be carried on satellites before the channel merger.

Former featured shows

These shows aired on U-Pop before 1worldspace filed for bankruptcy .

• Ted Kelly's World Party
• New Music Friday
• The Daley Planet with Mark Daley
  Mark Daley
  Mark Daley is a Northern Irish-born American broadcaster. He is the American and international host of BRIT40 and the music and pop culture show The Daley Planet on UPOP, XM Satellite Radio and WorldSpace Satellite Radio.-Early career:...
  
  
• The IT List
• The UPOP Chart Countdown
• Upick The UPOP
• hit40uk
  Hit40uk
  Hit40UK was a networked Top 40 chart show broadcasting on around 130 UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. It is now a TV programme shown on 4Music. The radio version was produced in house by Global Radio and Somethin' Else...
  
  
• Aural Fixation w/ Pogo
• Basement Bhangra
• Buzzine
• Casbah After Dark with Mike Copeland
• Gravity with Zach Overking
• Shibuya Airwaves
  Shibuya Airwaves
  Shibuya Airwaves was a radio program produced by eigoMANGA created by Oscar Gutierrez Jr., Tetsuro Mori, and Austin Osueke. The show aired on 1550 AM KYCY in San Francisco, CA and first aired on September 24th 2005. The program was composed of a music line-up ranging from anime soundtracks and...