Receiver

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 the multiplex virtual channel to be broadcast in the physical channel;
• a channel number indicating means for indicating a channel number to be switched;
• a tuning means for starting the tuning 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 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 tuning means stops a tuning motion if the tuning means is in the middle of tuning 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 tuning means starts the tuning of a channel corresponding to the channel number indicated this time.