Electronic program guide display and displying method thereof

The present invention relates to an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) display technology. More particularly, the present invention relates to an intuitive and easy-to-use EPG display technology by which TV viewers can recognize the information about the current TV program, the next program and the later programs of a channel at a glance. When a viewer selects an item (CHANNEL MENU in Korean or EPG or GUIDE) of Main Menu, the list of current programs of the channels belonging to the selected menu item appears at the right side of the Main Menu. Only focused channel has the next program information adjacent to the current program, and only when the focus is moved to the next program, the list of later programs displays in order to reduce the information overload and to show exactly what viewers need, in the present invention. According to the present invention, viewers may easily find current and next programs for a channel, may identify information for previous channel in addition to current channel, which enables quick access for the program viewers want to watch, and may select a later program for recording or reminding by the list of the later programs of the selected channel.