Subfolders in iTunes podcast?

Is it possible to have iTunes seperate a feed in to "subfeeds", showing up in subfolders on iTunes and the iPod? Ideally, we would prefer it if the podcast RSS XML standard supported more than one <Channel> per feed, but lacking that, we still want content from multiple sources to be displayed sorted by source in folders.
Thank you,
Jim De Arras

If you CAN do that, please let me know.
I've got a bit of an issue of having WAY too much content for the Apple iTunes model to really work well, and would love to have a bit more infrastructure.
I suspect, however, that it is not possible.
It seems like that Apple iTunes is purposely kept to "small-scale" for whatever reasons.

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