Program switching control apparatus and program

To be able to watch both the program by another user is viewing. Terminal 5, including the user, to communicate with the viewer histories presence management server 101 that manages the viewing history of a plurality of users, obtains the viewing history of the other users from the viewer history presence management server 101, of the other users based on the viewing history, it generates data of a GUI image enumerated in time series each of one or more symbols corresponding to each of the one or more program content other user views, display output. Given this case, the terminal 5, from among one or more symbols included in the data of the GUI image, accepts a predetermined symbol selected by a user operation, the playback target in the receiver, accepted by the operation acceptance unit 77 transmitting a command to switch to the program content corresponding to the symbol to the receiver.