Patent ID: 8103232

Claim:
A broadcasting signal receiving apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a tuner unit; a memory which stores information related to a plurality of physical channel numbers intended to be scanned; a control unit which performs a channel scan by providing the information related to the physical channel numbers stored in the memory to the tuner unit consecutively in accordance with an input of a prescribed scan instruction, and a user interface (UI) unit which receives the information related to the plurality of physical channel numbers to be scanned, wherein the UI unit further comprises a user input unit to which the information related to the plurality of physical channel numbers to be scanned is input by a user, wherein the information related to the plurality of physical channel numbers to be scanned comprises at least one of the physical channel number and the channel frequency, and wherein if the at least one of the physical channel number and the channel frequency is input from the user input unit, the control unit sets the other of the physical channel number and the channel frequency in correspondence with the one of the physical channel number and the channel frequency input, and wherein a plurality of services are provided via one physical channel, and the plurality of services contained in the physical channel are formed as the channel list.