32 and data storage medium 34 video may be presented on a display 36 of the tv 12 e g a flat panel matrix display cathode ray tube or other appropriate video display a wireless interceptor 38 is shown that includes an interceptor receiver 40 communicating with an interceptor processor 42 the interceptor processor 42 may communicate with an electronic storage medium 44 which can bear data and logic executable by the interceptor processor 42 if desired a display 46 may be provided on the interceptor 38 furthermore an extender receiver 48 can be provided on the interceptor 38 in non limiting embodiments and the extender receiver 48 can communicate wirelessly by e g radiofrequency with an extender 50 that may be physically positioned near e g just in front of the tv receiver 30 to receive ir command signals transform them into rf and send the transformed signals to the extender receiver 48 of the interceptor 38 for conversion back to ir if desired the process can be reversed between the receiver 48 and extender 50 in any case this facilitates hiding the interceptor 38 from view of children if desired as also shown in fig1 the interceptor 38 may communicate with a database 52 to obtain channel by channel program information correlated by time the database 52 may be accessed over the internet or it may be stored on e g the tv medium 34 and or stb medium 22 in electronic program guide epg format it is to be understood that.