A digital television receiver for providing a convenient search function for a media content that is defined by accompanying information, comprising: - a receiving part designed to retrieve accompanying information comprising character strings and a provision time of a media content from a data stream and to forward this information to a storage means (Spm), - a usage duration detecting means (Em) adapted to detect a period of time in which said television receiver is in reception mode and to transmit said detected period of time to said storage means (Spm), - a programme management device designed, ∘ when called up, to generate a menu comprising boxes for entering a search term consisting of character strings and a box for selecting a function, ∘ when entered so in the menu by the user, to execute the search function by searching the programme management device for matches of the character string of the search term with the character strings of the accompanying information stored in the storage means (Spm), and to store a search result for initiating a selected function in the storage means (Spm), ∘ to check the search result against the provision time to see if a media content is available for multiple reception, ∘ to compare the provision times of a media content that is available for multiple reception with the determined period of time, ∘ if a provision time of a media content that is available for multiple reception is outside the determined time period, to mark such media content for the selected function, characterised in that - the usage time detection means (Em) is further designed to assign the period of time, on the basis of a system time of the television receiver, to weekdays and a time of day that correspond to the particular time of switching on, and - to transmit the period of time with the corresponding assignment to the storage means (Spm) for storage. - a receiving part designed to retrieve accompanying information comprising character strings and a provision time of a media content from a data stream and to forward this information to a storage means (Spm), - a usage duration detecting means (Em) adapted to detect a period of time in which said television receiver is in reception mode and to transmit said detected period of time to said storage means (Spm), - a programme management device designed, ∘ when called up, to generate a menu comprising boxes for entering a search term consisting of character strings and a box for selecting a function, ∘ when entered so in the menu by the user, to execute the search function by searching the programme management device for matches of the character string of the search term with the character strings of the accompanying information stored in the storage means (Spm), and to store a search result for initiating a selected function in the storage means (Spm), ∘ to check the search result against the provision time to see if a media content is available for multiple reception, ∘ to compare the provision times of a media content that is available for multiple reception with the determined period of time, ∘ if a provision time of a media content that is available for multiple reception is outside the determined time period, to mark such media content for the selected function, characterised in that ∘ when called up, to generate a menu comprising boxes for entering a search term consisting of character strings and a box for selecting a function, ∘ when entered so in the menu by the user, to execute the search function by searching the programme management device for matches of the character string of the search term with the character strings of the accompanying information stored in the storage means (Spm), and to store a search result for initiating a selected function in the storage means (Spm), ∘ to check the search result against the provision time to see if a media content is available for multiple reception, ∘ to compare the provision times of a media content that is available for multiple reception with the determined period of time, ∘ if a provision time of a media content that is available for multiple reception is outside the determined time period, to mark such media content for the selected function, - the usage time detection means (Em) is further designed to assign the period of time, on the basis of a system time of the television receiver, to weekdays and a time of day that correspond to the particular time of switching on, and - to transmit the period of time with the corresponding assignment to the storage means (Spm) for storage.