Apparatus and method for configuring a control message in a broadcasting system

The present invention relates to apparatus and method for supporting Internet Protocol-based multimedia service broadcasting system for transmitting multimedia service control message. For this reason, the configuration message type field, a message type field comprises an indication of the type of control information contained in the control information in the message, a length field configuration, the length field contains information about the length of the control message, depending on configuration control information of the type having selectively different values ​​of the field and the payload field contains configuration control information of the content.