On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:59:53 -0700, dave wrote:

Unless you are some kind of masochist why not just tune your AM radio
via the internet?

Ummmm....I can think of several reasons why someone would listen to
the radio using a radio and not over the Internet.

1. Maybe the station the person wants to listen to hear doesn't stream
its audio over the Internet.

2. Maybe the user is not listening from a locatiopn where an Internet
connection is handy.

3. Maybe the listener is listening to a sporting event (often the
contracts with radio networks for broadcasting of sports events
doesn't permit the broadcasts to be streamed over the Internet)

4. Maybe the listener's Internet connection isn't fast enough (often
the case for users who are on a dialup).

5. And finally:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

According to the stats on that web page, only 20% (1.3 billion) of the
world's population (6.6 billion) has home Internet access. Perhaps the
listener is one of the 5.3 billion people worldwide who doesn't.

JK