A method and apparatus for providing communications between a broadcast
station and a plurality of viewing stations operated by viewers that
allows the viewers to customize the broadcast transmissions to remove or
replace particular phrases or scenes. The broadcast station also
identifies broadcast transmissions of interest to a viewer by comparing
the broadcast transmission characteristics to the viewer's broadcast
request. The broadcast station also receives a plurality of electronic
transmissions and identifies the recipients and transmitters of the
electronic transmissions to facilitate providing incentives to persons
for forwarding the transmissions. The viewing station includes command
software that includes a watch mode in which information that is manually
provided by a user and transmitted to a web page, is stored for use with
voice commands. The voice commands and stored information is used by the
command software to supply web pages with appropriate data. The broadcast
station also provides a virtual space to the viewers operating the
viewing station.