Program information receiving apparatus, program information receiving method, and program information receiving program

摘要

A program information receiving apparatus includes: a search criterion registration section for registering a search criterion necessary for searching through program information for a desired program; a program information acquisition section for acquiring program information; an updated information extraction section for comparing newly acquired program information and existing program information with each other to extract an updated part; a program information search section for searching the updated part for program information based on the search criterion; and a search result output section for outputting a search result when the desired program is found as a result of the search by the program information search section. Thus, a user can monitor not only program information fetched and stored in the receiving apparatus but also program information to be transmitted in the future for a program that the user wants to watch.