Patent ID: 8300155

Claim:
A broadcast receiving device comprising: a tuner receiving broadcast data on a designated channel; a search unit searching for available channels by controlling said tuner, and creating a channel map representing the available channels and an order of selection of the channels; a setting unit creating setting information defining enabling/disabling of the selection and/or change in the selection order for the channels in said channel map; an operation input unit accepting a user's operation of selecting the channel; a switching unit changing the selection of the channel according to said setting information when the user performs an operation of forwarding or reversing the channel through said operation input unit, and causing said tuner to receive the broadcast data on said selected channel; and a counter of storing, for each channel in said channel map, a number of times of change to another channel for watching, regarding that a selected certain channel was watched when the operation of selecting another channel was not performed through said operation input unit within a predetermined time after said certain channel was selected, and incrementing the number of times of watching of said selected channel, wherein said counter increments the number of times of change for watching from a first channel to a second channel when said counter regarded that said second channel was watched after said first channel was watched, and said setting unit creates said setting information according to the number of times of change to another channel stored for each of said channel in said counter.