Patent ID: 7505082

Claim:
A broadcasting receiver for receiving a broadcasting in a predetermined channel transmitted from a plurality of broadcasting stations by controlling a smart antenna that switches directivity in a plurality of preset directivity directions, the broadcasting receiver comprising: an allocating unit that allocates identification information that allows a user to identify a direction with respect to direction information indicating each of the directivity directions of the smart antenna; a direction recording unit that records correspondence between the direction information and the identification information; a display controller that reads the identification information corresponding to the direction information indicating a directivity direction that the smart antenna faces, from the direction recording unit, and displays the identification information on a display connected to the broadcasting receiver; an antenna-by-antenna direction recording unit that records antenna direction information indicating each directivity direction preset in the smart antenna, for each kind of smart antenna; an input unit that allows a user to input a kind of the smart antenna; an associating unit that reads the antenna direction information corresponding to each kind of input into the input unit, from the antenna-by-antenna direction recording unit to associate with the receiver direction information indicating each directivity direction that is assumed by the broadcasting receiver; a receiver direction recording unit that records correspondence between the antenna direction information and the receiver direction information; and a switching controller that reads the antenna direction information corresponding to the receiver direction information indicating a directivity direction to be switched, from the receiver direction recording unit to switch the directivity direction of the smart antenna based on the given antenna direction information.