Patent ID: 8670652

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that records reservation instructions for reserving recording that is executed by recording unit to save a picture based on television signals as video data on a recording medium, the instructions making a computer function as: an acquiring unit to acquire program information for specifying an advertised program from within the picture based on the television signals of any one of channels; a registering unit to register reservation information based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit in a reservation information management table stored with the reservation information containing information for specifying a time and date and a channel at which the recording unit performs the recording; a second searching unit to search the reservation information for reservation information specifying a program coincident with none of programs specified by pieces of program information distributed for an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) from within the reservation information management table each time the EPG information is updated; and a deleting unit to delete, when the second searching unit detects the reservation information, the detected reservation information from the reservation information management table; wherein, when the reservation information is deleted, information on deletion of the reservation information is recorded in an arbitrary area on a storage unit, is read from the storage unit and is displayed on a display.