Patent ID: 7322039

Claim:
In a digital and analog broadcasting receiver comprising both a digital tuner for receiving digital broadcasting and an analog tuner for receiving analog broadcasting, a digital and analog broadcasting receiver comprising: a first CPU; and a second CPU, the first CPU being in charge of existent station channel search processing on the side of the digital tuner, the second CPU being in charge of existent station channel search processing on the side of the analog tuner, a frequency to be received by each tuner being changed independently by each CPU, channel searches by the first CPU and the second CPU being concurrently conducted; wherein when the existent station channel search is started, the first CPU instructs the second CPU to start the existent station channel search and performs the existent station channel search processing on the side of the digital tuner, and the second CPU performs the existent station channel search processing on the side of the analog tuner upon receipt of the instruction to start the search from the first CPU.