A method for receiving service information (SI) for building a channel map in an internet protocol television (IPTV) receiver and the IPTV receiver thereof are provided. The method includes receiving a provisioning information table which includes information of location to receive a first stream carrying a master SI table and parsing the received provisioning information table, receiving the first stream carrying the master SI table which includes information of location to receive a second stream carrying other SI tables based on the parsed provisioning information table and parsing the received first stream, parsing the second element in the received first stream, receiving the second stream carrying the other SI tables, and parsing the other SI tables, wherein the IPTV does not leave the first stream and leave the second stream.