A receiving apparatus includes: a receiving section receiving a broadcast signal of a selected channel; a holding section holding, for each community, a broadcast channel list indicating one or more channels broadcast in the community and a representative channel of those channels, and an adjacent community list indicating adjacent communities adjacent to the community with an overlapping area; a specifying section specifying the community; an overlap list creating section creating an overlap list listing the community that is specified and its adjacent communities; a channel selection section selecting a channel received by the receiving section, and determining success/failure of reception of the broadcast signal of the selected channel; and a receive channel list creating section creating a receive channel list indicating receivable channels, on the basis of determination result of success/failure of reception of the broadcast signal of each channel broadcast in the communities listed in the overlap list.