Wish iTunes would display what's playing now on all your radio stations

Can't somebody write a script to do this? I've written one that will make it play each of the stations in turn and record the track to the Description column. But there must be some way to retrieve the currently playing track and artist from each station without having to actually play them.
Ideally, they would update themselves as aeach new track was played. So if a song/artist came up that you really wanted to hear you could just call up that station...

If you have an iPod Touch, you could use the Remote application. I believe that it then shows you what's playing in iTunes on the Touch screen.

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