The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for securing a space for recording video, e.g., a broadcast program on a recording medium. When distribution of empty spaces scattered in a recording medium satisfies a particular condition, e.g., whether the size of a deleted program or the size of the entire empty space can accommodate video signals of a prescribed recording hours or whether the size of the empty space located at the last position is smaller than the size of all of the remaining empty spaces, the present invention moves and records recorded programs scattered in a recording medium to be continuous with one another, thereby making empty spaces scattered in the recording medium a single continuous empty space. |