Each transmission received from a video asset owner includes information
regarding a video asset that is available for real time distribution
during a future time period to third parties. Following a selection from
among the video assets, the corresponding video asset owners receive
transmissions requesting the selected video assets and one or more
initial templates. The video asset owners transmit final templates that
conform to the initial templates and contain information descriptive of
the video assets. Each final template, and the corresponding video asset,
is transmitted to predetermined network resource, such as a headend, at a
predetermined time corresponding to the future time period of
availability. The predetermined network resource can then distribute
video assets to viewers that were requested from the corresponding video
storefront by viewers.