Patent ID: 8488944

Claim:
A broadcast program recording apparatus comprising: a first receiver and a second receiver respectively configured to receive video data of a broadcast program; a storage medium that is capable of recording video data received by the first and second receivers; and a controller configured to: determine whether or not video data being received by the first receiver is video data of a relayed program that is composed of a relay source program broadcasted on a first channel and a relay destination program broadcasted on a second channel that is different from the first channel, and that is broadcasted continuously from the first channel to the second channel with a predetermined length of an overlapped period of the relay source program and the relay destination program in which the same contents are broadcasted on both the first channel and the second channel, and control the second receiver so that video data on the second channel is received by the second receiver and recorded on the storage medium a predetermined time before an end time of the relay source program, in a case in which it is determined that the video data on the first channel is video data of the relayed program when the video data on the first channel is received by the first receiver and recorded on the storage medium.