SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH A BROADCASTER VIA AN APPLICATION
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating audio access to radio stations via a call-to-listen application on a device. A server can provide a listing of radio stations via an application on a user device, such as a smartphone, receive a selection of a radio station by a user and obtain a phone number associated with the selection. The server utilizes a phone dialer on the device to dial the phone number and is presented with received audio from a radio station associated with the phone number via the device. In one embodiment, a least expensive transmission mode is determined based on a data plan balance and a voice plan balance, and the audio is presented via the determined least expensive transmission mode. In another embodiment, the phone number dialed is determined by user location.
1 . A method comprising:
receiving, via a device, an indication from a user that is listening to a broadcast that the user desires to interact; and
establishing a communication between the device and an entity and after the communication is over, continuing the broadcast, wherein the entity is a social networking entity.
2 . Method of claim 1 , wherein the communication is one of a voice call, an email, a tweet and a text.
3 . Method of claim 1 , wherein the entity is a broadcaster who is providing the broadcast.
4 . Method of claim 3 , wherein the entity is a department of the broadcaster of a host of the broadcast.
5 . Method of claim 1 wherein the entity is a payment entity and the communication enables the user to make a payment to a broadcaster who is producing the broadcast.
6 . A system comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving an indication from a user that is listening to a broadcast that the user desires to interact; and
establishing a communication between the device and an entity and after the communication is over, continuing the broadcast, wherein the entity is a social networking entity.
7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the communication is one of a voice call, an email, a tweet and a text.
8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the entity is a broadcaster who is providing the broadcast.
9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the entity is a department of the broadcaster of a host of the broadcast.
10 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the entity is a payment entity and the communication enables the user to make a payment to a broadcaster who is producing the broadcast.
11 . A computer-readable storage device storing instructions which executed by a processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving an indication from a user that is listening to a broadcast that the user desires to interact; and
establishing a communication between the device and an entity and after the communication is over, continuing the broadcast, wherein the entity is a social networking entity.
12 . The computer-readable device of claim 11 , wherein the communication is one of a voice call, an email, a tweet and a text.
13 . The computer-readable device of claim 11 , wherein the entity is a broadcaster who is providing the broadcast.
14 . The computer-readable device of claim 13 , wherein the entity is a department of the broadcaster of a host of the broadcast.
15 . The computer-readable device of claim 11 , wherein the entity is a payment entity and the communication enables the user to make a payment to a broadcaster who is producing the broadcast.