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An interactive cable television system, such as a one-way system, in which a plurality of subscribers are simultaneously provided with multi-information television programming and regular television programming independently selectably directly receivable by the individual subscribers on the televis

An interactive cable television system, such as a one-way system, in which a plurality of subscribers are simultaneously provided with multi-information television programming and regular television programming independently selectably directly receivable by the individual subscribers on the television reception channels of a conventional multichannel television receiver. The multi-information television programming comprises a plurality of different program information message signals related in time and content to each other and each transmitted at a different associated communication frequency which corresponds to a different television reception channel associated frequency, with regular television programming being simultaneously provided at one or more further different television reception channel frequency. Video information corresponding to labels to be dynamically assigned to the various television reception channels associated with the multi-information television programming is provided in the multi-information packet, which labels are varied in accordance with the content of the packet. A plurality of successive individual packets and the various program information message signals contained therein may be related to each other in a decision tree relationship in a memory accumulation program format capable of providing individually tailored messages to the individual subscribers, or in a story formulation program format enabling independent story creation by the individual subscribers or in a real time limited memory type of format responsive to prior selections of the individual subscribers or in any other type of interactive conversational type of programming.

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An interactive cable television system comprising a plurality of subscriber television reception systems, each of said subscriber television reception systems comprising a multichannel television receiver, each of said multichannel television receivers having a plurality of different television rece

An interactive cable television system comprising a plurality of subscriber television reception systems, each of said subscriber television reception systems comprising a multichannel television receiver, each of said multichannel television receivers having a plurality of different television reception channels, each of said television reception channels having a different associated communication frequency; a cable television subscriber distribution network operatively connected to said plurality of subscriber television recepction systems; and a cable television programming transmission means operatively connected to said subscriber distribution network for providing transmitted television programming thereto, said subscriber distribution networks providing said transmitted television programming to said plurality of subscriber television reception systems, said cable television programming transmission means comprising means for substantially simultaneously providing a multi-information television program communication signal along with at least one different regular television program information signal as said transmitted television programming to said subscriber distribution network; said multi-information television program communication signal comprising a plurality of multi-information packets, each multi-information packet comprising a plurality of simultaneously provided different program information message signals related in real time and content to each other, each of said related different program information message signals in said multi-information packet being at a different associated communication frequency different from each other, and different from said one regular television programming signal associated frequency, each of said related different program information message signal associated frequencies corresponding to a different television reception channel frequency and being directly receivable on the corresponding television reception channels; said one different regular television program information signal having an associated communication frequency corresponding to a different television reception channel frequency than said multi-information packet program information message signals and being directly selectably receivable on the corresponding television reception channel; each of said multichannel television receivers being capable of independently selectably receiving information on any one of said plurality of different television reception channels dependent on the television reception channel selected; each of said multichannel television receivers comprising a multichannel selection means for selecting the television reception channel associated frequency to be received, each of said television reception channels having a designated channel position indicator in said multichannel/selection means; at least one of said multi-information packets further comprising video information displayable on said multichannel television receiver corresponding to informational labels to be dynamically assigned to said designated channel position indicators for a particular multi-information packet, said television displayable informational labels being dynamically variable dependent on the content of said multi-information packet, whereby flexible multi-information television programming may be simultaneously provided along with regular television programming.