Patent ID: 8330872

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: an amplification section configured to amplify a received signal which includes a digital broadcast signal; a mixing section configured to mix the received signal amplified by the amplification section with a selective frequency signal so as to acquire an intermediate frequency signal; a demodulation section configured to demodulate the intermediate frequency signal acquired by the mixing section so as to acquire a demodulated signal of the digital broadcast signal; and a control section configured to control the amplification factor of the amplification section in a manner bringing to a target level the signal level of the intermediate frequency signal acquired by the mixing section, the control section being further configured to set variably the target level in accordance with bit error status of the demodulated signal acquired by the demodulation section from the digital broadcast signal, wherein the bit error status of the demodulated signal is a bit error rate, if the bit error rate is found to exceed a predetermined threshold level, then the control section lowers the target level, and if the bit error rate is not improved after the target level was lowered when the bit error rate was found in excess of the predetermined threshold value, then the control section raises the target level.