Patent ID: 8144259

Claim:
A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a plurality of tuners, including first and second tuners, capable of simultaneously receiving broadcast waves of plural channels to display a program of a received channel on a display unit or to record a program of a received channel in a storage unit; a storage unit configured to store installation location information of the broadcast receiving apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to obtain a control signal, the control signal including region information identifying a region and channel designation information designating a program broadcast channel; a determination unit configured to determine whether a channel designated by the channel designation information corresponds to a channel received by the first tuner or a channel received by the second tuner; and a control unit configured to control a channel selection action of each of the plurality of tuners and display processing for the display unit or recording processing for the storage unit based on the control signal obtained by the acquisition unit and a determination result obtained by the determination unit, wherein, when the region information corresponds to the installation location information, if the channel designated by the channel designation information is different from the channel received by the first tuner and displayed on the display unit and is equal to the channel received by the second tuner, a program of the channel received by the first tuner is recorded in the storage unit.