Patent ID: 8218578

Claim:
A broadcast receiving apparatus provided with a clock to count time and a tuner to receive a broadcast signal of an arbitrary channel selectively from a channel of an analog broadcast and a digital broadcast, the broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: an analog time information extracting member to extract time information included in an analog broadcast signal; a digital time information extracting member to extract time information included in a digital broadcast signal; a time setting member to automatically set the time of the clock in accordance with time information; a display control member to output and display a setting screen to set a channel for time setting, the setting screen being used to set which broadcast channel is selected, the selected channel including the time information which is used by the time setting member to set the time of the clock; an operation input unit to input an operation command, wherein an analog broadcast channel which is capable of the time setting and a digital broadcast channel which is capable of the time setting are displayed in the setting screen to set the channel for the time setting, in a mixed manner and in a state capable of being selected by the operation input unit; a scanning display section to successively display broadcast channels which are capable of obtaining the time information during a channel scanning operation to confirm whether time information is obtainable using each successively displayed broadcast channel, and a channel selection display section to select a broadcast channel in accordance with an operation command input by the operation input unit, wherein the scanning display section and the channel selection display section are generated in the setting screen to set the channel for time setting; and a time exemplification section that exemplifies a time in accordance with the time information of a broadcast channel provided to the setting screen to set a channel for time setting, in a case where the broadcast channel provided to the setting screen is selected in the channel selection display section, wherein the exemplification of the time is conducted in the time exemplification section in a case where the selected broadcast channel is a digital channel, and wherein exemplification of the time is not conducted in the time exemplification section in a case where the selected broadcast channel is an analog channel even when the time information to set the time of the clock is obtainable in the analog channel which is selected, such that the time is not displayed in the time exemplification section.