Patent ID: 8380038

Claim:
A broadcasting station apparatus that produces a television broadcast signal, comprising: an editor configured to edit information of a television program and information of a commercial message to produce an edit signal for television broadcasting to which time codes indicating each period of the television program and a switching point of the commercial message is given; an analyzer configured to externally receive, as an input indicating that information in a given period of the television program after information of the commercial message is substantially the same as information in a period of the television program before the information of the commercial message, a first time code of the edit signal corresponding to a starting point of said given period and a second time code of the edit signal corresponding to an ending point of said given period, and generate a flag signal specifying said given period when receiving the first and second time codes; an encoder configured to encode the edit signal produced by said editor to produce an encoded signal; a packet producer configured to packetize the encoded signal produced by said encoder; and a data manipulator configured such that predetermined data in a packet storing the information in said given period of the television information specified by the flag signal out of packets produced by said packet producer is described in a first content, and the predetermined data in a packet storing information in another period of the television information is described in a second content that is different from the first content when the flag signal is produced by said analyzer.