The present invention relates a media contents monitoring apparatus and a method thereof capable of monitoring media contents information displayed through a certain display apparatus even in a remote place, the media contents monitoring apparatus extracts a media contents sample displayed on the object of monitoring according to set extraction setting information by a monitor's request, converts the extracted media contents sample into a file format appropriate to a web protocol and transmits it to a monitoring unit in a remote place through the Internet. And, accordingly the monitoring unit in the remote place can check the media contents displayed through the object of monitoring by using the media contents sample received through the Internet.