<p>[PROBLEMS] To provide an information distribution system capable of acquiring an advertisement broadcasted by a television or a radio via a network to a mobile telephone and viewing the advertisement even after the television broadcast or the radio broadcast has ended. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] While viewing a television broadcast or listening to a radio broadcast by using a mobile telephone having a function for remote-controlling a receiver for receiving the television broadcast or the radio broadcast, information identifying the channel viewed or listened to and the time is output via a network to a first network server. Advertisement information identified according to the information identifying the channel and the time is returned from the first network server and registered in a storage section of the mobile telephone, so that this advertisement information can be reproduced later.</p>
