PROGRAM OUTPUT APPARATUS, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVER, ASSISTANCE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING PROGRAM AND ASSISTANCE INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

In order to solve a problem in which it is difficult for conventional program output apparatuses to acquire assistance information corresponding to a program that is being received thereby, separately from the program, and to output the assistance information together with the program, a program output apparatus 2 includes: a program receiving unit 201 that receives a program; a channel identifier acquiring unit 202 that acquires a channel identifier of the program that is being received by the program receiving unit 201; a program identifying information acquiring unit 204 that acquires program identifying information corresponding to program specifying information containing the channel identifier; an assistance information acquiring unit 206 that acquires assistance information corresponding to the program identifying information acquired by the program identifying information acquiring unit 204, the assistance information being received from a second server in which one or more pieces of assistance information corresponding to program identifying information are stored; and an output unit 207 that outputs the program received by the program receiving unit 201 and the assistance information acquired by the assistance information acquiring unit 206. With this configuration, it is possible to acquire assistance information provided separately from a program that is being received, and to output the assistance information together with the program.