Methods for managing delivery of video sequences of an interactive program
guide (IPG) over a communications network to a plurality of terminals are
provided. In one embodiment, the method pre-allocates a broadcast
bandwidth in the communications network for common video sequences to be
transmitted by a broadcast technique. The common video sequences are
transmitted in the broadcast bandwidth to the plurality of terminals by
way of the broadcast technique. A request for a specific video sequence
is received from a specific terminal via the communications network. A
demandcast bandwidth is allocated in the communications network for the
specific video sequence. The specific video sequence is transmitted in
the demandcast bandwidth to the specific terminal via the communications
network.