Program selecting and character broadcasting receiving set

Claim 1

A character broadcasting receiving set comprising: a receiving means for receiving a character signal transmitted from a broadcasting station; a decoding means for decoding the received character signal; a displaying means, including a screen, for displaying on said screen on the basis of the decoded character signal, one of a plurality of character broadcasting programs including a menu program useable by a user to select a desired program out of the plurality of character broadcasting programs; an inputting means for inputting and specifying a chosen program number from among characters in the displayed menu program by allowing the user to position an indicator on said display means at a chosen position selected from any of a plurality of display positions, said chosen position being a display position on the screen of the chosen program number; a memory means for storing display content data, which indicate values of program numbers included in characters in the displayed menu program, at storage positions in a one-to-one correspondence with the display positions of said display content data; and a display controlling means for controlling said displaying means to display the character broadcasting program corresponding to the chosen program number, on the basis of the storage positions and the display content data stored in said memory means, by reading the content data from said memory means at a storage position derived from said inputting means.