Satellite television network and near real-time method for downloading and verifying a subscriber remote record request

A method of sending a remote record request to a recording device in a broadcast system, comprising:

• logging in to a system coupled to a broadcast center in the broadcast system with a wireless communications device;
• accessing a programming guide for the broadcast system with the wireless communications device;
• selecting a program for recording on the recording device and submitting the remote record request to the broadcast system, the remote record request comprising a program code and a subscriber ID;
• sending the remote record request to the broadcast center;
• verifying, at the broadcast center, that the subscriber ID is valid and the program is within a current subscription package within the broadcast system;
• communicating a verification response to the wireless communications device rejecting the remote record request when the program is not within the current subscription package or is above a billing limit or rating limit;
• communicating an override signal from the wireless communications device to the broadcast center to override the package, billing limit or a rating limit;
• inserting, at the broadcast center, the remote record request into a broadcast stream in response to the override signal;
• transmitting the broadcast stream within the broadcast system;
• receiving the broadcast stream at a plurality of subscriber sites;
• determining whether the remote record request in the broadcast stream is directed to the receiving subscriber site by comparing the subscriber ID to a subscriber site ID;
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• validating the remote record request at the subscriber site by determining whether the selected program can be recorded.