The method for programming recordings is applied to a recorder device containing a videogram medium and connected to a programming terminal equipment unit located in an area covered by one or more radio cells of a cellular radiotelephony network. The terminal equipment has receiving and reading means capable of receiving text messages transmitted over a broadcast channel of the network and reading concatenation sequences contained in the messages, each containing information data of a programme item from a programme broadcaster. The user selects on an input interface of the recorder device, a type of programme to be recorded which is transformed with a determined format into a recording code, which code is compared with at least one portion of each of the sequences so as to use the recording data and automatically parameterize the recording.