Abstract: A program recording apparatus for recording a program transmitted in a transport stream, includes an information acquisition portion which acquires genre information about the program from each TS packet of transmitted transport stream data, a conversion portion which converts the transport stream data into data in a predetermined format, a recording portion which records the transport stream data or the data in the predetermined format on a record medium, a control portion which controls at least one of the information acquisition portion, the conversion portion and the recording portion, and a storage portion which stores profile data in which a recording format every genre is set. The control portion controls at least one of the information acquisition portion, the conversion portion and the recording portion based on the profile data when the genre information about the program acquired by the information acquisition portion is set in the profile data.