Patent ID: 8707377

Claim:
A program sending controlling apparatus, comprising: one or more processors operable to: retain a playlist comprising cues, wherein the cues are progressing units of a program disposed in a time series; control on-air of a broadcasting-related apparatus based on the playlist; edit the playlist; detect, in response to editing carried out for the playlist corresponding to the program, presence or absence of a syntax error in the playlist; display the playlist corresponding to the program; and display, when the syntax error is detected, an error indication at a position of that one of the cues of the displayed playlist which corresponds to the detected syntax error, wherein the one or more processors detect, in response to editing carried out for the playlist corresponding to the program, the syntax error in a sole cue in the playlist or the syntax error between successive one of the cues, wherein the one or more processors detect, as the syntax error between the successive cues, that the same broadcasting-related apparatus is used in the successive cues.