Patent ID: 8086168

Claim:
An apparatus for content tuning and for presenting the content to a user via an audio output interface, the apparatus comprising: a) a multi-channel monitor located within the apparatus and operative to monitor a plurality of channels, each of said channels providing respective streaming content; b) a content analyzer located within said apparatus and operative to analyze streaming content currently being played on said monitored channels; c) a channel selector located within said apparatus for tuning the apparatus to a channel selected from said plurality of channels in accordance with results of said analysis; and d) an audio output interface of the apparatus for playing, to a user, audio being played on the channel to which the channel selector is tuned, wherein the apparatus comprises a portable radio device, wherein the content analyzer is operative to analyze streaming content on first and second of said monitored channels while said audio output interface is playing audio to the user on said first channel but not said second channel and wherein said channel selector is configured to tune the apparatus from said first channel to said second channel in response to said content analyzer determining that the content being played on said second channel is more desirable to the user than the content being played on said first channel.