A recording apparatus includes a tuner, a storage unit for holding on memory the timer information concerning at least the broadcast reception start time and the broadcast reception end time by the tuner, a timer, a recording unit for effecting recording on a recording medium taken out from a housing section holding a plurality of recording mediums and a controller for controlling the operation of the tuner and the recording unit based on an output signal from the timer and the timer information stored in the storage unit. The controller compares the output signal from the timer and the broadcast reception start time of the timer information held on memory in the storage unit, causes the recording unit to start recording of an output signal from the tuner on the recording medium thus taken out and causes the recoding unit to terminate the recording operation for the output signal from the tuner by the recording unit based on the results of comparison of the output signal of the timer and the broadcast reception end time of the timer information held on memory in the storage unit.