Abstract: The apparatus for receiving a message from a central transmitter with a television receiver includes a tunable radio receiver for radio signals including an encoded message transmitted from a central radio transmitter which is separate from the television receiver; a decoder for producing a decoded message signal from the received radio signal; a memory connected with the decoder for storing the decoded message signal; a signalling device advantageously including an LED for signalling the presence of the decoded message signal in memory; a converter for converting the decoded message signal to a video message signal; an RF modulator for producing a TV message signal from the video message signal and a television receiver with a television screen on which a visual message derived from the TV message signal is displayed.