A radio station transmits its broadcast audio content, including audible
advertisements, to listeners over the Internet via an Internet Hosting
Service that provides listener access to radio station content. A
computing system at the radio station digitizes the audio, and supplies
marking information that identifies the beginning and duration of
commercials. The digital marking information is supplied with the radio
station's audio to the Internet Hosting Service. The Internet Hosting
Service maintains a repository of replacement audio commercials along
with information about the commercials including duration. Upon receiving
the digital marker indicating the presence of a commercial, the Internet
Hosting Service selects a replacement commercial of comparable duration
from its repository. The Internet Hosting Service then substitutes the
replacement commercial for the original broadcast commercial and produces
an edited audio program for delivery to the listeners that carries
advertising of higher value than the original advertising.