An information recording apparatus is provided with: a reserving device for specifying a channel, a recording start time point, and a recording end time point of a regular broadcast program which is regularly broadcasted (i.e. every week, every day, every month, or the like), to thereby reserve the regular broadcast program; an obtaining device for obtaining Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information which is distributed along with or aside from the regular broadcast program and which includes airtime zone information for indicating a channel, a broadcast start time point, and a broadcast end time point; a recording device capable of recording the regular broadcast program; and a controlling device for (i) controlling the recording device to record the regular broadcast program from the recording start time point, (ii) searching for the broadcast end time point of the regular broadcast program, from the EPG information, while the regular broadcast program is recorded, and (iii) controlling the recording device to record the regular broadcast program until the searched broadcast end time point