Broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving program contents based on location information

A broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising:

• a broadcast receiver configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents, location information, and layout control information from a broadcast transmission path, the location information describing a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data, the layout control information relating to a display layout of the broadcasting program contents;
• a network transceiver configured to receive data related to the broadcasting program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a network;
• a transmitting interface configured to transmit the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiver to external equipment;
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• a memory configured to store a server function program of a server function for the external equipment;
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• a processor configured to control the broadcast receiver, the network transceiver and the transmitting interface and execute a program stored in the memory,
• wherein as an output state of the transmitting interface, there is a state where the location information in which a description of the reference destination is rewritten into a description indicating the server function of the server function program in the broadcast receiving apparatus and the layout control information maintained in the state received by the broadcast receiver are outputted together with the broadcasting data received by the broadcast receiver.