A transmitting apparatus comprising a transmission-signal generating circuit configured to generate a first type of schedule element corresponding to an allocation involving a single channel and/or a second type of schedule element corresponding to an allocation involving a plurality of channels and that is configured to respectively generate MAC frames (1101-1103) for first to Nth channels (CH1-CH3), N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, each MAC frame including the respectively generated first type and/or second type of schedule element, wherein the first type of schedule element is an extended schedule element that complies with an IEEE 802.11ad standard, and the second type of schedule element is an EDMG, Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit, extended schedule element that complies with an IEEE 802.11ay standard; and a transmitting circuit configured to transmit the MAC frames, generated for the respective N channels (CH1-CH3), in the respective channels (CH1-CH3), wherein, the transmission-signal generating circuit is configured to, with respect to an nth channel, n being an integer greater than or equal to 1 and is smaller than or equal to N: when the allocation involving the plurality of channels includes the nth channel , - generate a schedule element of the first type , the schedule element including all information of scheduling information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels, and - generate a schedule element of the second type , the schedule element including difference information indicating the generated first type of schedule element, and when the allocation involving the plurality of channels does not include the nth channel , - omit the generation of the first type of schedule element and - generate the second type of schedule element including all information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels. when the allocation involving the plurality of channels includes the nth channel , - generate a schedule element of the first type , the schedule element including all information of scheduling information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels, and - generate a schedule element of the second type , the schedule element including difference information indicating the generated first type of schedule element, and when the allocation involving the plurality of channels does not include the nth channel , - omit the generation of the first type of schedule element and - generate the second type of schedule element including all information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels. - generate a schedule element of the first type , the schedule element including all information of scheduling information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels, and - generate a schedule element of the second type , the schedule element including difference information indicating the generated first type of schedule element, and when the allocation involving the plurality of channels does not include the nth channel , - omit the generation of the first type of schedule element and - generate the second type of schedule element including all information for the allocation involving the plurality of channels. <EOS>