Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided for achieving continuous program viewing/listening by appropriately switching between program reception through broadcasting and program reception through communication with a broadcast receiving function and a communication function working cooperatively. A receiver receives a program broadcasted from a broadcasting station. A reception state monitoring section monitors a state of receiving the broadcast program in the receiver. If the reception state is in a satisfactory state, the broadcast program is reproduced by the reproducing section. Upon determination by the reception state monitoring section that the reception state has been deteriorated, a program information generating section generates program information specifying the broadcast program being currently received by the receiver, and then gives the program information to a communication section.

Abstract: A mobile terminal is provide for achieving continuous program viewing/listening by appropriately switching between program reception through broadcasting and program reception through communication with a broadcast receiving function and a communication function working cooperatively. A receiver (11) receives a program broadcasted from a broadcasting station (11). A reception state monitoring section (23) monitors a state of receiving the broadcast program in the receiver (21). If the reception state is in a satisfactory state, the broadcast program is reproduced by the reproducing section (12). Upon determination by the reception state monitoring section (23) that the reception state has been deteriorated, a program information generating section (14) generates program information specifying the broadcast program being currently received by the receiver (11), and then gives the program information to a communication section (15).