120 when the integrated television system 100 is shipped from the factory a smart card is shipped with the system to facilitate activation of a satellite television service the card is u201c paired u201d with the integrated system 100 to pair the card the card is inserted into the interface and a signal is sent to the system via a satellite transmission a unique serial number is then written to the rom 128 in the card 122 to match a serial number for the integrated system 100 such that the paired card only operates with that particular system each of the satellite and terrestrial television receivers 110 and 108 utilize separate passwords or u201c password sets u201d at any given time the system 100 may utilize the password set of either the satellite or terrestrial television receivers 108 and 110 in one embodiment of the invention the satellite television password access process overrides the password access process of the television receiver to allow a single password to control both the terrestrial and satellite programming access the television receiver 108 includes hardware that controls television programming access one example of such hardware is a v chip controller 126 but could also include other forms of conditional access such as cable television descrambling privileges the v chip controller 126 enables terrestrial programming access with respect to one or more user profiles or accounts each of these user profiles or accounts contain passwords terrestrial passwords for enabling access to particular content level of programming for example pg 13 rated channels or programs the terrestrial passwords that control access to programming using the v chip controller 126 are stored within the television read only memory rom 130 and.