Patent ID: 8421930

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiver capable of receiving a program broadcast by a plurality of services from among broadcast electric waves to each of which a single physical channel is assigned, said digital broadcast receiver being provided with at least an I/O device, said digital broadcast receiver comprising: a reception demodulating unit for converting a signal in an RF band which said digital broadcast receiver has received into a transport stream signal; and a control unit for determining whether or not there are identical services in services which said digital broadcast receiver has received in each of a plurality of regions, and for: making a region identification on a basis of identification information included in said transport stream signal, generating a service list for each of said regions in such manner that, when there are identical services in the services received for a particular region, said identical services are merged into a single service entry within the service list of said region, said service entry being linked to the physical channels assigned to the respective identical services, and displaying said service list generated thereby on said I/O device to urge a viewer to perform a selection input, wherein, upon receiving via said I/O device a selection input from the viewer selecting said service entry, said control unit selects one of said linked physical channels having a highest priority among priorities assigned to said linked physical channels as the physical channel to be received by the digital broadcast receiver.