In a broadcast receiver, where the user operates a channel up/down key of a remote controller, when the broadcast signal to be next received is an analog broadcast signal, a tuner unit which has received a broadcast signal immediately before the operation receives the analog broadcast signal to be next received. In the broadcast receiver, in accordance with the side of the channel up/down key which is operated by the user (the up side or the down side), a digital broadcast signal of a channel number which is closest to the channel that is currently received and output by one of tuner units is previously received by the other tuner unit. When the user selects the channel of the digital broadcast signal which is received by the other tuner unit, the broadcast receiver outputs video and audio signals on the basis of the digital broadcast signal which is already received.