Patent ID: 7027106

Claim:
A digital/analog broadcast receiver that can selectively receive a digital broadcast and an analog broadcast and that includes data at a carrier frequency that corresponds to a virtual channel number for digital and analog broadcasting, the receiver comprising: a ROM in which said data are stored at said carrier frequency, a physical channel number corresponding to said data, and data for the carrier frequency range corresponding to said physical channel number; an operating unit to be tuned to a desired virtual channel number; and an MPU for controlling said ROM and said operating unit, wherein, when said operating unit is manipulated for tuning, said MPU reads, from a received digital broadcast, a carrier frequency corresponding to a desired virtual channel number, reads a physical channel number corresponding to said carrier frequency that has been read, reads the range of a carrier frequency corresponding to said physical channel number that has been read, and receives a digital/analog broadcast over said entire range of said carrier frequency that has been read.