Patent ID: 8121566

Claim:
A broadcasting receiver suitable for receiving a broadcasting signal of a base station transmitted in a signal format in which a carrier wave is allocated in a frequency channel to have a certain frequency offset relative to a center of frequency of the frequency channel and to have a certain signal intensity, the broadcasting receiver comprising: an information acquiring unit that acquires information related to the frequency channel being sought; and a station existence determining unit that determines based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, whether or not the frequency channel includes a broadcast station and, hence, is or is not in a state of station-existent wherein: the information acquiring unit is configured to acquire, as the information related to the frequency channel, information concerning a receiving intensity of a carrier wave in the frequency channel and information concerning a frequency offset of the carrier wave in the frequency channel; and the station existence determining unit is configured to determine that the frequency channel is in the state of station-existent when the receiving intensity is larger than a predetermined threshold value and when the freauencv offset lies within a range set for the frequency offset.