I manage the website of a public classical radio station. I would like to add a
"Now Playing" feature to the site. There is an example of what I would like to
do http://www.king.org. The playlist is created weekly and can be easily
transfered to an excel document or another form of database. I would like to
figure out how to write a script that would read the time on the playlist and
display the corresponding song information as the time changes. Can anyone help
me with this? I am proficient in HTML. I would really appreciate any help I
can get

1) flash can read a text file or an xml file.

2) you'll probably want to use a server-side script to retrieve the date/time
from the server and use that find and display the correct selection.

3) this is not a good beginning flash project.