Patent ID: 7787061
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiving apparatus comprising: a registering means that registers a channel for which registration has been designated in a channel table; a tuning receiving means that receives tuning of only a channel that is registered in the channel table; a receiving means that receives a digital broadcast signal of the channel received by the tuning receiving means; a detecting means that detects whether or not a program is being broadcast for each channel; a broadcast suspension setting means that, when a channel for which it has been detected by the detecting means that a program is not being broadcast is a channel that is registered in the channel table, turns on a flag that indicates broadcast suspension and that is associated with the channel; a tuning reception prohibiting means that, for a channel that is registered in the channel table and for which the associated flag that indicates broadcast suspension is turned on, prohibits reception of tuning by the tuning receiving means; and a broadcast suspension releasing means that, when the detecting means has detected that a program is being broadcast on a channel that is registered in the channel table and whose associated flag indicating broadcast suspension is turned on, turns off the flag indicating broadcast suspension associated with that channel.