SELECTION OF ALTERNATE SOURCES FOR AUDIO BROADCAST SIGNALS RESPONSIVE TO EMBEDDED SOURCE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

An apparatus, program product, and method utilize embedded source identity information within an audio broadcast signal to facilitate the reception of the audio broadcast signal from an alternate source. Such embedded information may be used, for example, to facilitate the automated selection of an alternate source of an audio broadcast signal, e.g., in response to poor reception of the primary source of the audio broadcast signal, so that a listener is less likely to miss any portion of an audio broadcast. In one particular implementation, an audio broadcast signal is a radio signal broadcast by a radio station, whereby suitable alternate sources might include another radio station that broadcasts the audio broadcast signal over a different frequency, a transmission device accessible over a telephone network, or a transmission device accessible over a computer network such as the Internet.