In a broadcasting receiver, the receiver is so operated as not to disturb viewing by audiences other than an operator. The broadcasting receiver has an image pickup unit for photographing images of televiewers, a face detection unit for detecting faces of the televiewers from the photographed image, an individual discrimination unit for managing detected faces discriminately, a watching concentration degree calculation unit for calculating degrees of concentration of watching a television in respect of individual discriminated faces and an operation execution decision unit for deciding a television operator and deciding execution of operation in accordance with values of watching concentration degrees of the televiewers other than the operator.