To set a place of a residence where a receiving apparatus is installed, based on an actually received broadcasting signal.

A method for receiving ground wave digital broadcasting includes a step of sequentially searching a channel-selection channel by a tuner 13, a step of separating additional information transmitted by multiplex by ground wave digital broadcasting from a transport stream obtained by demodulating the received broadcasting signal, and a step of extracting local area identification information. When the searching of all channels is finished, a local area in line with a broadcasting receiving environment is specified by operation from a plurality of acquired local area identification information, the specified local area is decided as a residence local area, and numeric keys of a remote controller 16 are aligned based on the decided residence local area.