A server device, which has a content storage section, a content provider,
a program table provider, a request processor and the like and can be
accessed by a plurality of client devices, is arranged on the Internet.
The content provider has a list, in which information about contents with
relevance to their transmission times are registered. The content
provider reads out the contents from the content storage section based on
the list. The request processor controls the content provider to sent the
read contents to a client device which has sent a request for
transmission of the contents. The program table provider provides the
client device, whose request is processed by the request processor, with
a program table storing classifications of contents with relevance to
their corresponding transmission times. This program table includes
information for setting reservation for transmission of contents. The
client device, which has received the program table, inputs a request for
transmission of contents in accordance with the program table, makes the
server device to send the contents to the client device, and makes the
server device to send the contents at a time which is reserved and set as
transmission time in accordance with the program table.