In accordance with the invention, radio program content or other audio
communications and music are transmitted as digital information through
the Internet to an Internet radio receiver/transmitter device. The device
converts received digital information to analog information and
broadcasts the information in the radio frequency band at low power in a
localized area for reception by ordinary FM or AM radios. The device is
capable of receiving multiple streams of different digital information,
and broadcasting each of these on separate radio frequencies, so that
each person in a household may hear its own selected programming on its
own preselected radio frequency. It is programmable as to at least
broadcast commence time, frequency and end time, if desired. Moreover, it
may store received information to play at a preprogrammed time, or on
demand.