A mobile terrestrial digital broadcast receiver is disclosed. With the arrival at a predetermined time before the starting time of a recording reserved program specified by arbitrary recording reservation information (hereinafter referred to as the intended recording reservation information), the broadcast is started to be received in preparation for the recording, and it is determined whether the area information contained in the received broadcast wave is identical with the area information in the intended recording reservation information. In the case where the area information contained in the received broadcast wave is different from the area information in the intended recording reservation information, a channel list is prepared, while at the same time determining whether a stream ID in the intended recording reservation information exists in the channel list prepared.