[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] christopherwoods:
Doubtful. With TCPMP you have the advantage of a customisable EQ, but that's about it imo.

Because the BBC News Console REALLY ANNOYS ME, here's some more BBC links:

BBC 1, 6 and 10 o'clock news (updated every day about half an hour to 40 minutes after the actual programme ends):

WMP links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/wm/video/news1_bb.asx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/wm/video/news6_bb.asx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/wm/video/news10_bb.asx

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/rm/video/news1_bb.rm

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/rm/video/news6_bb.rm

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/n5ctrl/tvseq/news_ost/bb/rm/video/news10_bb.rm

I doubt that anybody will be able to get the Real-format links to work on their device, as the last version of Real Player for PPC doesn't seem to support these latest Helix-based streams properly, and TCPMP doesn't support RTSP streaming (grr!) but they're there anyway, because many may prefer the (slightly higher) video quality of the Real stream over the WMP stream when viewing on a PC.

I never thought I'd be recommending a Real stream of anything! But there we go.

BBC Weather forecasts:

UK Forecast:

Broadband: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/weather/hc_weather_uk_bb.asx

Narrowband: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/weather/hc_weather_uk_nb.asx

World Forecast:

Broadband: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/weather/hc_weather_world_bb.asx

Narrowband: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/summaries/weather/hc_weather_world_nb.asx

Here's some radio streams...

1Xtra (urban)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/realmedia/1xtra_hi.asx

6Music (progressive music, wide variety, one of my favourite stations)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ram/6music_hi.asx

BBC7 (speech, comedy, drama and classic shows):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/realplayer/bbc7_hi.asx

Asian Network

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/rams/asiannet_hi.asx

Radio 1 (pop music)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/wm_asx/aod/radio1_hi.asx

Radio 2 (Music & Entertainment, apparently the most popular station in the UK)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/wm_asx/aod/radio2_hi.asx

Radio 3 (Classical, Jazz, World, Arts, Drama)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wm_asx/aod/radio3_hi.asx

Radio 4 (Intelligent Speech) (FM Feed, see below for LW feed and more info)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx

(NB: this stream still works, although this actual link for the R4 WMP stream isn't available on BBC's Radio Player web pages! Therefore, it might not be available 24/7 as they could be running tests or changing their streaming setup)

Radio 4 Longwave (mostly the same content as Radio 4 FM, but with slightly different material in the morning and periodically throughout the day):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4_lw.asx

(Note: what do I mean by 'slightly different material'? Well, sometimes LW broadcasts a church service in the morning whilst Radio 4 FM continues with its speech programmes, and during the recent Ashes cricket tests, Radio 4 LW carried ball-by-ball live coverage of the tests while Radio 4 FM continued with its regular programming.)

Five Live (live news and sport):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx

Five Live Sports Extra (additional coverage, extra coverage, particularly for important events)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra.asx

BBC World Service (also simulcast on Radio 4 between around 1:30am and 5am, when Radio 4 shuts down)

NB: there is (from what I can tell) more than one live feed for the World Service, the SW feed and the regular World Service feed. This is from the BBC World Service web site! http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ According to the site, the main World Service feed seems to be the one which ends with "live_news", although they also have their other "World Service Radio" stream. Both run 24/7 from what I can tell, and both have different content. Choose your own favourite.

Live Feed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_news_au_nb.asx

Alternative, live "World Service Radio":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_infent_au_nb.asx

You may also be able to listen to World Service in FM where you live, when I was in Pebble Beach (in California, US) last summer, I was absolutely AMAZED when I was just scanning my MP3 player's radio through the frequency... And I found World Service broadcasting in FM! You can see if there's any local broadcasts in FM by searching on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/worldservice/psims/ScheduleSDT.cgi (choose your continent, then your region, then narrow the search down to get eventual results and, if you can pick it up, schedules in both GMT and local time).

Radio Cymru:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rcg2.ram (REAL PLAYER ONLY)

Unfortunately, I can't find a WMP stream for Radio Cymru. As I can neither speak nor understand Welsh, I don't really have that much of an urge to go looking for a WMP feed, either. Sorry ;)

Radio Foyle (Ireland) (RP only):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/realmedia/rf-live.ram

Again, No WMP feed I can find.

Radio Nan Gaidheal (Gaelic):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/media/live/radio_ng.ram

Radio Ulster (RP only):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/realmedia/ru-live.ram

Radio Wales (RP only):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/live/rwg2.ram

No WMP feeds for those stations, sorry.

There's LOADS of BBC Local Radio streams on their Radio Player, but as none of them are offered in WMP format (at least publicly, yet) I'm not going to bother to post them.