Patent ID: 8332890

Claim:
A method for identifying television stations of interest in a user friendly environment comprising the steps of: receiving broadcast signals for a plurality of television stations; displaying one or more folders associated with one or more classifications for said plurality of television stations on a display, wherein each of said one or more folders comprises one or more indications associated with one or more television stations; and determining whether said broadcast signals include tags for associating each of said plurality of television stations with one or more classifications; wherein if said broadcast signals include said tags then the method further comprises the step of: comparing said tags with a list of one or more classifications associated with said plurality of television stations; wherein if there are differences between said list of one or more classifications associated with said plurality of television stations and said tags then the method further comprises the steps of: updating said list of one or more classifications in a database associated with said plurality of television stations to become a new base set stored in said database; and displaying one or more folders associated with one or more classifications for said plurality of television stations on said display according to said new base set after said new base set has been processed.