Method and apparatus for scanning channel in digital broadcating receiver

PURPOSE: A channel scanning method of a digital broadcast receiver preventing the unnecessary channel scan is provided to reduce a channel scan time by performing the channel scan after selecting desired channels. CONSTITUTION: A user selects the multiple manual channel scan menu(100). The digital broadcasting receiver sets the number of the frequencies to search(102). The digital broadcasting receiver sets the frequencies to search(104). The digital broadcasting receiver scans a plurality of set channels in a predefined sequence(106). If the previous channel information has in the internal memory, the digital broadcast receiver deletes the former channel information. The digital broadcast receiver stores the channel information after scanning in the internal memory.