To provide an electronic program information displaying method and a device for enabling a user to designating display that is easily visually recognized for each program category on a display in program information display such as television programs.

A plurality of icon candidates 302 displayed for each selected category 301 are prepared, and the user can designate an icon which the user thinks conspicuous in a category which the user wants to be conspicuous according to his/her own determinator. In icon candidates 30 for each category 301, any or a combination among icons, the conspicuous use of color/inconspicuous use of a color, transparency, shapes and patterns of which are different, icons that change according to a time and icons created by the user is prepared. It is preferable for each person having an individual difference in the visibility of various users to be able to select a conspicuous icon. Icons belonging to other categorys can be also confirmed at the same time and it can be confirmed whether the icons are relatively conspicuous when the users select the icons.