A receiving apparatus for receiving signals in a transmission system, said signals being transmitted on the basis of a frame structure, the frames of said frame structure comprising signaling data and payload data, wherein said signaling data has been provided on a first and a second path to a modulator to provide modulated signaling data, wherein a correlation sequence has been modulated onto the signaling data on the second path, wherein the modulated signaling data is split according to a signaling data pattern into n signaling data portions, n being a positive integer, which n signaling portions are mapped onto n or less frames, said receiving apparatus comprising: - a receiver configured to receive a transmission signal, - a frame demapper configured to demap signaling data blocks and payload data patterns from the frames of said frame structure of said received transmission signal, wherein a signaling data block is assumed to comprise a number of data corresponding to a number n of the signaling data pattern, and - a demodulation decoder configured to separately demodulated and decode said signaling data blocks and payload data patterns to obtain signaling data and payload data, wherein said demodulation decoder comprises a signaling data demodulation decoder configured to demodulate and decode said signaling data blocks by i) demodulating signaling data included in one or more signaling data blocks and to output the demodulated signaling data on a first path and on a second path having a different phase than the first path, ii) combining said demodulated signaling data of the first and second path, iii) performing a correlation of the data included in the combined signal with the correlation sequence, which has been modulated onto the signaling data before transmission, characterized in that the signaling data demodulation decoder is further configured to determine the number n from the correlation result, and to decode n signaling data portions included in the signaling blocks from which n has been determined. - a receiver configured to receive a transmission signal, - a frame demapper configured to demap signaling data blocks and payload data patterns from the frames of said frame structure of said received transmission signal, wherein a signaling data block is assumed to comprise a number of data corresponding to a number n of the signaling data pattern, and - a demodulation decoder configured to separately demodulated and decode said signaling data blocks and payload data patterns to obtain signaling data and payload data, wherein said demodulation decoder comprises a signaling data demodulation decoder configured to demodulate and decode said signaling data blocks by i) demodulating signaling data included in one or more signaling data blocks and to output the demodulated signaling data on a first path and on a second path having a different phase than the first path, ii) combining said demodulated signaling data of the first and second path, iii) performing a correlation of the data included in the combined signal with the correlation sequence, which has been modulated onto the signaling data before transmission, characterized in that the signaling data demodulation decoder is further configured to determine the number n from the correlation result, and to decode n signaling data portions included in the signaling blocks from which n has been determined. i) demodulating signaling data included in one or more signaling data blocks and to output the demodulated signaling data on a first path and on a second path having a different phase than the first path, ii) combining said demodulated signaling data of the first and second path, iii) performing a correlation of the data included in the combined signal with the correlation sequence, which has been modulated onto the signaling data before transmission, characterized in that the signaling data demodulation decoder is further configured to determine the number n from the correlation result, and to decode n signaling data portions included in the signaling blocks from which n has been determined.