Patent ID: 7574718

Claim:
A television, comprising: a judgment unit for judging a program rating based on a program rating signal included in a received broadcasting signal for a program; a set-up value storage unit for storing a set-up value of a program rating set up by a user; a reporting unit for reporting the program rating judged by the judgment unit; and a control unit for controlling the reporting unit to report the program rating judged by the judgment unit, wherein the control unit determines if any set-up value of the program rating has been set up by the user, and controls the reporting unit to report the program rating only if it is determined that no set-up value has ever been set up in the set-up value storage unit, wherein the control unit controls the reporting unit to report the program rating for the program repeatedly at predetermined temporal intervals upon determining that that no set-up value has ever been set up in the set-up value storage unit, and wherein when the control unit determines that a set-up value is set up in the set-up value storage unit, the reporting unit does not report the program rating judged by the judgment unit and blocks the broadcasting signal whose program rating is judged by the judgment unit to be greater than or equal to the stored set-up value, and passing the broadcasting signal whose program rating is judged by the judgment unit to be less than the stored set-up value.