INTERLOCKED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a program interlocked information provision system for providing information related to a program content in synchronization with progress of its TV program, by using a method which does not impose a burden on a viewer.SOLUTION: There is provided an interlocked information distribution server device comprising: means for extracting and providing interlocked information in response to an interlocked information start request including broadcast station identification information; interlocked information continuous request correspondence means for extracting and providing interlocked information in a next unit time frame in response to a request for requesting the interlocked information in the next unit time frame; and a program information database constructed by including a program information table for storing a set of a program identifier, broadcast station identification information, broadcast start time, broadcast end time, and information showing existence of the interlocked information for each program to be broadcast, and an interlocked information table for storing a set of a unit time frame identifier, a program identifier, lapse time after broadcast start, and information on an interlocked information content for each unit time frame which is obtained by further subdividing a time zone of the program to be broadcast.