Program recommendation method and program of the program recommendation apparatus and program recommendation apparatus

To reflect the importance of keywords to assess the category for classifying the content of the program, to provide a program recommendation device to recommend a program to satisfy the preferences of the user. Registered as a keyword, a category dictionary impart contribution for each category the keyword, using a keyword category dictionary, searches for words contained in the program information of the program indicated by EPG, consistent with keywords when, to accumulate the contribution for each category. To calculate the category evaluation value corresponding to the cumulative value accumulated in each category for each program. I would recommend the program to suit the preference of the user from the degree of similarity between the user preference degree of each those categories evaluation value and category.