Abstract: The exemplary embodiment may be used for television (TV) signals and, if desired, also for radio, digital telephone, picture screen text and/or television telephone signals. For the reduction of the circuit-technical outlay of the actual broad band switching network, each TV program (Pl . . . Pp) is multiply supplied to a program-individual input (El . . . Ep) of the broad band switching network in time-division multiplex in a plurality of time channels; via the broad band switching network, each subscriber (Tq . . . Tt) has simultaneous access in the plurality of time channels to a corresponding plurality of programs (Pl . . . Pp). In the broad band switching network, the individual program signal sources (Pl . . . Pp) are respectively connected to coupling point switches belonging to the respective input (El . . .