INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION ACQUIRING TERMINAL, BROADCAST RECEIVING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ECG server capable of improving the audience rating and selection convenience of program content.

SOLUTION: The ECG server 100 for providing ECG information about program content to a television terminal 300 and a user terminal 200 is provided with: an ECG information storing part for associating ECG information about program content with the program content to store them; an ECG unit forming part for forming a plurality of pieces of ECG information including channel selection information for making the television terminal select program channel as an ECG unit about the program content; a timing information setting part for setting timing information for providing the user terminal with the ECG unit about the program content in interlock with the providing of the program content to the television terminal; and an ECG unit providing part for providing the ECG unit about the program content to the user terminal that can provide the television terminal with the channel selection information according to the timing information.

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