To schedule an event based on a program name included in program scheduling information by providing a step, etc., for deciding whether or not to schedule at least one event for a prescribed time slot with respect to a selected program.

A user selects a program from a schedule including program- scheduling information (S501). Next, an event which should be related with the program selected by the user is selected (S502). Next, the name of the selected program is compared with the program-scheduling information (S503). Then, after judging whether or not to schedule the event based on the comparing (S504) and judging that the selected program is to be broadcasted by a prescribed time slot and channel, when the user selects to record the selected program only one time, the event is scheduled to record the selected program within the prescribed time slot and channel.