A broadcast receiver stores history information about switching between sending-out stations, the history information including broadcast display state information, in a storage unit 7 while bringing the history information into correspondence with position information about a position of a vehicle, and compares current broadcast display state information acquired at a current position of the vehicle with broadcast display state information in history information which is extracted from the storage unit 7 and which corresponds to a position which is the same as the current position to determine that a sending-out station corresponding to history information which provides a display state which is the same as the display state of a broadcast wave currently being received as the vehicle travels is a switching destination.
