In a broadcast program recording apparatus 101 that is capable of recording an event relayed program, each of first and second receiving units 102 and 103 receives digital broadcast signals. A control unit 112 reads out program information stored in a memory 111, and determines whether the program being received by the first receiving unit 102 and recorded on a storage 110 is a relay source program or not. Then, in a case in which the receiving unit 102 is receiving the relay source program, channel selection is carried out so that the second receiving unit 103 receives a relay destination program a certain period of time before the end time of that program.