Patent ID: 8391678

Claim:
A portable telephone capable of receiving television and programmed recording, comprising: a receiver configured to receive waves of a television broadcast; a receiving state detector configured to detect a receiving state of the waves of television broadcast before recording; a memory storing programmed recording information; a detector configured to detect that it is at a time point preceding a set start time of the programmed recording based on the programmed recording information stored in the memory; a receiving state detection activator configured to activate the receiving state detector automatically without operation by a user, at a predetermined amount of time earlier than the set start time of the programmed recording, so that the receiving state detector detects the receiving state for at least a portion of the predetermined amount of time preceding the set start time of the programmed recording; a judger configured to judge whether the recording is permitted based on a detected result of the receiving state detector; and a notifier configured to notify the user that the recording is not permitted, if it is judged that the recording is not permitted, wherein the receiving state comprises the reception level of the television broadcast waves, the notifier performs notification by showing on a display a message that the recording is not permitted, the receiving state detector repeats the detection operation after being activated by the receiving state detection activator, unless the recording is judged to be at least one of satisfactory or permitted, the judger repeats the judging operation, and the notifier repeats the notifying operation until it is judged that the recording is permitted.