Patent ID: 8881200

Claim:
A program information notification device comprising: a determination section which determines, as program information to be notified to a user, ones of a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among the plurality of pieces of program information; and a notification section which notifies the user of the ones of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined, the notification section sequentially notifying, one by one, the user of (i) a first predetermined number of pieces of program information, each having a broadcast date which is a current day, to be preferentially displayed and then (ii) a second predetermined number of pieces of program information, each having a broadcast date which is a following day, to be preferentially displayed, from among the ones of the plurality of pieces of program information determined by the determination section, after notifying the user of (i) the first predetermined number of pieces of program information and (ii) the second predetermined number of pieces of program information, the notification section notifying the user that there are third and fourth program information, having broadcast dates identical to respective of the current day and the following day, in a case where the third program information and the fourth program information further exist, respectively.