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The Japan Broadcasting Corporation [2] (Japanese: 日本放送協会, Hepburn: Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai), also known by its romanized initialism NHK, [a] is a Japanese public broadcaster. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee .
The following is a list of NHK broadcasting stations established by corporation in various parts of Japan. This is a list of broadcasting stations. This is a list of broadcasting stations. There are 54 in total, including the Metropolitan Area Station , which has jurisdiction over Tokyo, as a broadcasting station in its own right.
NHK World TV started broadcasting services for North America and Europe in 1995. On April 1, 1998, then-called NHK World Television started broadcasting. Today's NHK World-Japan is a current affairs and cultural channel that broadcasts internationally via satellite and cable TV. Programming is produced in English only. It began as a news ...
NHK General TV (NHK総合テレビジョン, NHK Sōgō Terebijon), abbreviated on-screen as NHK G, is the main television service of NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster. Its programming includes news, drama, quiz/variety shows, music, sports, anime , and specials which compete directly with the output of its commercial counterparts.
NHK Hall (Japanese: NHK ホール) is a multipurpose hall located in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. The architectural design is Nikken Sekkei (日建設計). It was completed in November 1972 and started operation on June 20, 1973. The current one is the second generation, and the first NHK Hall existed in the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Center.
The NHK Osaka Broadcasting Station (NHK大阪放送局, NHK Osaka Hoso Kyoku) is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in both Osaka Prefecture and five other prefectures of the Kansai region. It is also the main station under the jurisdiction of NHK's Kansai region.
Radio broadcasting has been used in Japan since its debut in 1925 when three local stations in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, forerunners of the public company NHK, received permission from the government to start broadcasting.
After that, the first Japanese experimental broadcasting satellite, called BSE or Yuri, was launched in 1978. NHK started experimental broadcasting of TV program using BS-2a satellite in May 1984. The satellite BS-2a was launched in preparation for the start of full scale 2-channel broadcasts.