Patent ID: 8625721

Claim:
A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives digital broadcast and analog broadcast including same broadcast contents simultaneously; an output switching unit that outputs the digital broadcast received by the receiving unit and outputs the analog broadcast during a time period over which a reception status of the digital broadcast worsens; a detecting unit that detects a received field strength of analog broadcast signals employed in the analog broadcast; and an acoustic controlling unit that performs control to bring an acoustic characteristic of a pre-switching broadcast closer to an acoustic characteristic of a post-switching broadcast based on the received field strength detected by the detecting unit when an output is switched between the digital broadcast and the analog broadcast, wherein, if the received field strength becomes lower than a predetermined starting threshold or if the received field strength becomes higher than the predetermined starting threshold prior to becoming as low as a predefined level where the reception status starts to worsen, a frequency characteristic of a digital broadcast signal is increased to a level of a frequency characteristic of the digital broadcast.