I love my music library, iTunes, and I love news. I have used this hint in the past to automate insertion of CNN and NPR news podcasts into the current Party Shuffle, where I can enjoy music with CNN at the top and NPR at the bottom of the hour.
When I discovered Nicecast last year, I began enjoying my own radio station at work with news and New Music Tuesdays continuously. While debugging a modification to the original AppleScript which would also use the AppleScript say command to announce the time, I accidentally discovered that the time would announce via Nicecast, given activation of iTunes.
Read on to see the series of scripts I use...
To announce current song or play Party Shuffle:
To speak the time: Radio station ID: Play New Music Tuesday (NMT) uses this hint: [robg adds: I haven't tested these scripts.]Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080329205627989