Technique for making rewards available for an audience tuned to a broadcast

摘要

A method for obtaining access supplementary materials related to a program that is broadcast to a plurality of audience members, comprising:
receiving said broadcast output signal,
separating from said received broadcast output signal a programming signal and a supplementary material ID signal, storing said separated supplementary material ID signals received at said location during an interval of time, and
generating a control signal, related to said stored supplementary material ID signals, upon actuation by the audience member at such location; and
printing and/or displaying information related to the stored program-related supplementary material respectively corresponding to said supplementary material ID signals on responding to said received control signal by retrieving stored data from a database.