Patent ID: 7084930

Claim:
A receiver comprising: a receiving means for receiving a signal of a program to be broadcast for each virtual channel when multiplex virtual channels are formed in a physical channel and also for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including attribute information showing an attribute of each of the multiplex virtual channels to be broadcast in the physical channel; a channel number indicating means for indicating a channel number to be switched; a channel selecting means for starting the selecting of a channel corresponding to an indicated channel number at the time at which a channel number to be switched is indicated by the channel number indicating means; a channel map storing means for storing a channel map on which attribute information of the virtual channel, which is multiplex in the physical channel, is stored for each physical channel; and a channel map renewing means for renewing the channel map, while the channels are being successively switched, when the receiving means receives the attribute information included in the digital broadcasting signal, the channel number indicating means including a channel-up/channel-down means for indicating the order of increasing or decreasing a channel number to be switched, wherein the channel selecting means stops a selecting motion if the channel selecting means is in the middle of selecting a channel corresponding to the channel number indicated before when the channel number to be switched by the channel-up/channel-down means is indicated, and the channel selecting means starts the selecting of a channel corresponding to the channel number indicated this time.