Patent ID: 8405778

Claim:
An information display apparatus having a display unit that displays first information that is based on a signal corresponding to one channel in a broadcast wave received by a receiving unit, the information display apparatus comprising: a detecting unit that detects a reception state of the signal corresponding to the first information while the first information is displayed on the display unit; a judging unit that judges whether information displayed on the display unit has been changed from the first information to second information, if the reception state of the signal corresponding to the first information has deteriorated; a monitoring unit that monitors whether the reception state of the signal corresponding to the first information has returned to a favorable state, if the information displayed on the display unit has been judged to have been changed to the second information; and a display control unit that continues display of the second information and redisplays the first information on a portion of the display unit, if the reception state of the signal of the first information has returned to the favorable state.