Patent ID: 8649756

Claim:
A method for providing an abbreviated electronic program guide, comprising: receiving, via a vehicle, a radio signal, the radio signal including an audio content portion and an auxiliary information display portion; determining whether the vehicle is in operation; in response to determining that the vehicle is not in operation, providing the audio content portion for playback in the vehicle, providing the auxiliary information display portion for display in the vehicle, providing a user interface with an option to auto-tune a user specified program, and receiving a user input designating the user-specified program; and in response to determining that the vehicle is in operation: creating an altered auxiliary information by removing content from the auxiliary information display portion; providing the audio content portion for playback in the vehicle; providing the altered auxiliary information for display in the vehicle, wherein the altered auxiliary information includes a subset of features from the auxiliary information display portion; providing the user interface without the option to auto-tune the user specified program; and determining whether the user-specified program is being broadcast and, in response to determining that the user-specified program is being broadcast, automatically tuning to a channel that is broadcasting the user specified program.