Patent ID: 8327400

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving a broadcast signal of a selected channel; holding means for holding a broadcast channel list and an adjacent community list for each of communities indicating a range in which the broadcast signal of each of one or more channels is receivable, the broadcast channel list recording information indicating the one or more channels that are broadcast in each of the communities and a representative channel of the one or more channels, the adjacent community list indicating adjacent communities adjacent to each of the communities with an overlapping area; specifying means for specifying each of the communities; overlap list creating means for creating an overlap list that lists up each of the communities which is specified, and adjacent communities adjacent to each of the specified communities; channel selection means for selecting a channel to be received by the receiving means, and determining success/failure of reception of the broadcast signal of the selected channel; and receive channel list creating means for creating a receive channel list indicating receivable channels, on the basis of a determination result of success/failure of reception of the broadcast signal of each of channels broadcast in the communities listed up in the overlap list.