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An interactive sporting event monitoring system includes a determiner for determining whether video blanking interval data is present in a selected television channel, and a decoder for decoding video blanking interval data from the selected television channel. The video blanking interval data from

An interactive sporting event monitoring system includes a determiner for determining whether video blanking interval data is present in a selected television channel, and a decoder for decoding video blanking interval data from the selected television channel. The video blanking interval data from the selected television channel comprises a number of channels of sporting-event audio information, and the decoder associates each of the plurality of channels of sporting-event audio information with a corresponding channel identifier. Each channel identifier distinguishes a corresponding channel of sporting-event audio information from other channels of sporting-event audio information. The interactive sporting event monitoring system further includes a user input for accepting a user-specified channel identifier from a user, and a monitor for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user. The video blanking interval data may further include telemetry data.

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[What is claimed is:] [1.]tuning means for selecting a television channel, the television channel comprising one or more channels of sporting-event audio information, wherein each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information is encoded with a corresponding channel identifier disti

[What is claimed is:] [1.]tuning means for selecting a television channel, the television channel comprising one or more channels of sporting-event audio information, wherein each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information is encoded with a corresponding channel identifier distinguishing that channel from other channels;detecting means for detecting the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information on the television channel, the detecting means being for associating each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information with its corresponding channel identifier, each channel identifier including a corresponding contestant identifier and each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information including audio information of the contestant identified by the corresponding contestant identifier;a user input adapted to accept a user-specified channel identifier from a user, the user-specified channel identifier specifying a channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor; andmonitoring means for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user.