At least one playlist is stored in a playlist area.

In response to the request for the radio playlist, the radio playlist is received.

The playlist includes at least one playitem.

Each email list is dynamically updated according to the attributes characterizing the email list.

A user interface allows the user to alter the playlist and the order of annotations in the playlist.

An email list may be selected by selecting one or more attributes characterizing each member of the email list.

A subscriber uses the service to select a playlist, or to instruct the service to automatically generate a playlist.

An authorized person may generate an email list by selecting one or more attributes characterizing each member of the email list.

The PlayList information has a sequence consisting of 999 PlayItem information.

The VOD system generates a dynamic play list incorporating at least one advertisement, where the playiist is provided to the VOD server, causing said VOD server to stream the playiist to the viewer.

A playlist can be edited not so as to cause the mismatch of a character code in the whole disk and playlist.

Each playlist identifies at least one playitem, and each playitem identifies at least one clip of video data.

The automation playlist is provided to an ITV automation unit (24a) which encodes ITV data associated with the ITV events into the broadcast signal in accordance with the playlist.

A play list generation device (100) extracts a predetermined content from a plurality of contents and generates a play list.

In another embodiment, at least one playlist specifies at least one digital media file that is not specified by another playlist in the plurality of playlists.