Patent ID: 8014717

Claim:
A method of distributing content from multiple media content providers, said method comprising: providing an interface which receives media content from a plurality of media content providers; forming one or more composite data streams from the media content received from said plurality of content providers; providing a means of conveying said composite data streams to a plurality of receiver systems; providing a user interface for said receiver systems, said user interface displaying content provider information and allowing for the selection of one of the content providers for playing of the selected provider's media content; wherein a provider's content emanates from a source having an over-the-air coverage area and comprises primary content that is independent of the coverage area and secondary content that is specific to said coverage area, said method further comprising: extracting the secondary content from said provider's content for content being conveyed to receiver systems outside of said coverage area; storing alternate secondary content; and inserting alternate secondary content in place of the extracted secondary content for content being conveyed to receiver systems outside of said coverage area.