I am an NPR junky. The problem is that local NPR stations generally don't transmit very far. I recently moved to an area that only gets one station, and its programming is mediocre with news and talk for only part of the day and music all evening and night. So I got an XM radio so that I could listen to NPR. XM provides 24/7 BBC world service, world radio network, and 3 public radio channels. And I can get it reliably at home and on the road no matter where I am in the country. No other broadcast radio or internet phone service can match that. So for me satellite radio is definitely worth it.

It will also be live on Hulu in Flash.

If they are only using this code in house then it wouldn't matter if it was BSD or GPL. Remeber, GPL doesn't mean that just anyone can demand to see your code at any time. You are only obligated to give source code to those who you give or sell your binaries.