A system and method for providing information about broadcasted content is provided. A synchronization server receives requests for information about content being broadcasted, such as a song being broadcasted by a radio station. The request can be issued by a listener of the radio station using his or her cellular telephone, a portable communications device, or a local computer. The time of the request is used to query a database of a music server associated with the radio station, to retrieve song title, artist name, and album name corresponding to the song currently being played by the radio station. Information about the song is then transmitted to the listener, whereupon the user can perform other tasks associated with the song, such as obtaining lyrics to the song, ordering tickets to events by the artist of the song, downloading ring tones, downloading the song, accessing a streamed version of the song, etc.