Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for controlling an operation that is performed to record a broadcast received by a tuner onto a recording medium, the information processing apparatus including: storage means configured to store a list of recording candidate broadcasts, which are to be recorded onto the recording medium; decision means that, at a recording start time for a particular recording candidate broadcast, which is one of the recording candidate broadcasts in the list, judges whether a tuner is available for recording the particular recording candidate broadcast, and decides whether or not to record the particular recording candidate broadcast; and recording control means configured to record the particular recording candidate broadcast onto the recording medium when a decision is made to record the particular recording candidate broadcast.