Patent ID: 7512314

Claim:
A recording/editing apparatus for recording a broadcast program, which is received on a receiving device, onto a rewritable storage medium and editing the recorded broadcast program, said recording/editing apparatus comprising: a record-reserving device for performing record-reservation of the broadcast program; a delete-condition-specifying device for allowing a user to specify a delete condition to delete the recorded broadcast program from the storage medium by a user input operation; a recording device for recording the broadcast program to which the record-reservation is performed onto the storage medium; and a deleting device for deleting the broadcast program which satisfies the specified delete condition from the storage medium if contents of the recorded broadcast program satisfies the specified delete condition, said delete condition including at least one condition, whose result does not turn out at a start of recording the broadcast program to the storage medium but turns out after the start or completion of recording the broadcast program to the storage medium, of (i) a result or an occurrence of event which are accompanied by the contents of the broadcast, (ii) secondary information caused by the result or the occurrence, and (iii) an audience rating of the broadcast program or public reaction for the broadcast program which is judged from the number of user accesses with respect to the broadcast program.