An image recording apparatus comprising: a receiving unit to receive a broadcast signal pertaining to a predetermined broadcast; a recording unit to record video data composed of sound data and image data, both based on a received broadcast signal; detection unit to detect an end of the predetermined broadcast based on the received broadcast signal; timer unit to time a detection time for which the detection means continues detecting of the end of the broadcast; judgment unit to judge whether the detection time timed by the timer unit has reached a predetermined elapsed time or not; and record erasing unit to stop recording the video data in the recording unit and to erase the video data having been recorded in the recording unit while the timer means has been timing the predetermined elapsed time, when the judgment means judges that the detection time has reached the predetermined elapsed time.