Television additional methods and apparatus

The present application discloses a television additional methods and apparatus, comprising: a channel server to store the additional channel corresponding to the channel bundle, channel packet includes channel attribute information and the widget instance; the widget instance for playing the function call of the television terminal displays the contents of the additional channel ; from the end of the television channel corresponding to the channel server to download additional channel bundle, the attribute information of the parsed channel and plug-in instance of each channel packet, and attribute information stored in the plug-in instance channel; television terminal generates additional information according to the channel attributes of each channel bundle channel list; after the television terminal receives the switching instruction for switching to the additional channel switching instruction reads the plug-in instance additional points corresponding to the channel, the plug-in instance call the local operation of the engine, widget instance read, the call instance plug playback broadcast television end of the additional content channels. The present invention can improve the efficiency of access to additional television channels and services.