Patent ID: 7707604

Claim:
A data-processing apparatus configured to receive a broadcast signal and be connected to a network on which broadcast stations disclose content-related information related to broadcast contents, comprising: receiving means for receiving the broadcast signal of a prescribed frequency assigned to each of the broadcast stations; reproducing means for reproducing the broadcast signal received by the receiving means; setting means for setting a frequency for the broadcast signal that can be received and for recording frequency information about the frequency set, in a predetermined recording medium; communications control means for acquiring the content-related information through the network by transmitting a request including broadcast station ID data identifying the broadcast station from which the broadcast signal is received by the receiving means, said content-related information including information corresponding to the broadcast signal identified in the request and information corresponding to a different broadcast station than the broadcast station identified in the request; display means for displaying predetermined information; and control means for causing the display means to display a list of broadcast stations corresponding to at least one frequency set, in accordance with the frequency information set by the setting means, for acquiring the content-related information disclosed by the broadcast station selected from the list, and for causing the display means to display the content-related information.