In a television broadcasting system intended to present information
pertaining to a main broadcast program to viewers, a ground-wave
broadcast station produces and broadcasts the main program in the
conventional manner and a CS (communication satellite) broadcast station
which is supplied with main program composition information and various
source data from the ground-wave station produces supplemental broadcast
programs for the main program. The CS station also produces symbolic
labels indicative of the content of the supplemental programs, and
broadcasts the supplemental programs and symbolic labels together. An IRD
(integrated receiver/decoder) unit of a viewer's receiver set receives
the broadcast signals from the ground-wave station and CS station, and
displays the main program and the symbolic labels of supplemental
programs together on a display unit. The IRD unit operates in response to
the selection of a symbolic label by the viewer to display a supplemental
program corresponding to this symbolic label.