A system (10) enables connection information and content description information to be separately transmitted from a broadcaster (14) to a receiver (16). Thus, the description of the content (26) may be provided to a receiver (16) prior to the time that the information needed to specify the connection (28) to the service such as a channel is known. By uncoupling the content description and connection information, the assignment of connection information may be managed dynamically in the broadcast network. |