Yeah, I use my (original) Tuner for 3 things.

1. It connects my Sony Stalk remote to my empeg, and that alone is worth the price of a tuner.

2. I listen to the cricket when its on, and Austrlia is not beating everyone in sight [or better yet, whenever Australia is being beaten].

3. The news, but only if its X oclock, and only if Bush or Blair is not doing a "State of the Union" speech that day.

And mostly I listen to the BBC world service on AM, or the local "NPR" equivalent on FM. Both of which are commercial free

Well the BBC is all ad-free exept at the start of each hour when they run 3 minutes of ads and then cut to the news - so I can listen to local news for 3 minutes on NPR, then switch to the BBC for the rest of the news.
[they make up the 3 minute delay they introduce, during the next hour using some clever software that digitises and then trims small sections of "silence" un-noticeably over the next 57 minutes of programming].