a base apparatus, said base apparatus comprising:

a television tuner section for receiving a television broadcast signal and selecting a broadcast program therefrom on a television channel in accordance with a user selection of a specific channel of the television broadcast signal;

a radio communication interface to convert said selected broadcast program into radio signals for local radio transmission when a radio communication network is selected for communication;

at least one wireline communication interface to convert said selected broadcast program to local wireline communication signals for transmission on a local wireline communication network when the local wireline communication network is selected for communication; and

a control section for controlling transmission of the selected broadcast program on either said radio communication network or said wireline communication network;

at least one terminal apparatus comprising:

a radio communication interface for receiving said radio signals;

a wire communication interface for receiving said wireline communication signals;

a display section for displaying images of said broadcast program of said received radio signals or said received wireline communication signals;

at least one of said base apparatus and said terminal apparatus including a section for:

measuring communication quality of the radio and wireline communication networks when the terminal apparatus is first turned on, and

selecting between said radio and wireline communication networks based on:

the measurement as the communication network to be used for communication of the selected broadcast program; and

as a function of an ability to execute an application program for transmission of high speed data,

wherein the base apparatus and at least one of the terminal apparatus participate simultaneously in both the radio communication network and the wireline communication network, and

wherein said communication quality is measured by the terminal apparatus by:

sending test data to the base apparatus in response to a request;

receiving re-sent test data from the base apparatus;

comparing the sent test data to the received re-sent test data; and

determining the communication quality as a function of errors detected in comparison;

or

wherein said communication quality is measured by the base apparatus by:

sending a request for transmission of test data;

receiving test data from the terminal apparatus in response to the request;

comparing received test data to stored test data; and

determining the communication quality as a function of errors detected in comparison.