TBS Television (Japan)

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This article is about the Japanese television station. For the holding company, see Tokyo Broadcasting System. For other uses, see TBS.

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Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
Native name
 株式会社TBSテレビ
Kabushikigaisha TBS terebi
Subsidiary KK
Industry Media
Founded Tokyo, Japan ((2000-03-21)March 21, 2000)
Headquarters TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Services
Parent TBS Holdings, Inc.
Website www.tbs.co.jp
Footnotes / references
Data from its Corporate Profile
TBS Television (Japan)
Kantō Region, Japan
City of license Tokyo
Channels Digital: 22 (UHF)
Virtual: 6
Affiliations Japan News Network
Owner Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
First air date April 1, 1955; 69 years ago (1955-04-01)
Call letters' meaning JOKR-TV: JO Kabushiki gaisha Radio Tokyo (former name of TBS)
JORX-(D)TV: JO Radio Tokyo (X)
Sister station(s) BS-TBS
TBS Channel 1
TBS Channel 2
TBS News
Former callsigns JOKR-TV (1955-2001)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
6 (VHF) (1955-2011)
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Licensing authority MIC

JORX-DTV, branded as TBS Television (Japanese: TBSテレビ Hepburn: TBS Terebi?) is the flagship station of the Japan News Network (JNN), owned-and-operated by the Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.[1] subsidiary of JNN's owner, TBS Holdings. It operates in the Kantō region and broadcasts its content nationally through TBS-JNN Network, or Japan News Network.

TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to Ultraman and the Ultra Series franchise from 1966 – itself a spinoff to Ultra Q, co-produced and broadcast in the same year – and its spinoffs, most if not all made by Tsuburaya Productions for the network; in the 2010s, Ultra Series moved to TV Tokyo. Since the 1990s it is home to Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan, by itself a spinoff to the legendary TBS game show Kinniku Banzuke that lasted for 7 seasons.

On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms (TV Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc., WOWOW, Dentsu and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners) officially announced that they would jointly establish a new company in July to offer paid online video services. TBS Holdings would become the largest shareholder of the new company, Premium Platform Japan, with a 31.5% stake. An official from TBS Holdings, named Yasuhiro Takatsuna, became the new company's president.[2][3][4]

History

Early history

Matsutarō Shōriki, the former owner of Yomiuri Shimbun, brought forward the original idea of private broadcasting in Japan in 1951.[5](p82)In June of the following year, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, and Radio Tokyo (the first private radio broadcaster), became the first few applicants to apply for a TV broadcast license.[5](p83–84)

Broadcasting

Analog

JORX-TV (former callsign: JOKR-TV) - TBS Television ( TBS Terebijōn TBSテレビジョン (former Japanese name: 東京放送 Tōkyō Hōsō))

Islands in Tokyo
  • Niijima - Channel 56
Ibaraki Prefecture
  • Mito - Channel 40
Tochigi Prefecture
  • Utsunomiya - Channel 55
Gunma Prefecture
  • Maebashi - Channel 56
  • Kiryu - Channel 55
Saitama Prefecture
  • Chichibu - Channel 18
Chiba Prefecture
  • Chiba City - Channel 55
  • Urayasu - Channel 56
Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Yokohama-minato - Channel 56
  • Yokosuka-Kurihama - Channel 39
  • Hiratsuka - Channel 37
  • Odawara - Channel 56

Digital

JORX-DTV - TBS Digital Television (TBS Dejitaru Terebijōn TBSデジタルテレビジョン)

  • Remote Controller ID 6
  • Tokyo Skytree - Channel 22
  • Mito - Channel 15
  • Utsunomiya - Channel 15
  • Maebashi - Channel 36
  • Hiratsuka - Channel 22

Networks

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Further information: Japan News Network

TBS programming is also broadcast across JNN-affiliate stations nationwide, which include the following:

  • Headquartered in Osaka, broadcast in the Kansai area: MBS, Analog: Channel 4, Digital: Channel 16 (Osaka, ID: 4)
  • Headquartered in Nagoya, broadcast in the Chukyo area: CBC, Analog: Channel 5, Digital: Channel 18 (Nagoya, ID: 5)
  • Headquartered in Sapporo, broadcast in Hokkaidō: HBC, Analog: Channel 1, Digital: Channel 19 (Sapporo, ID: 1)
  • Headquartered in Aomori, broadcast in Aomori Prefecture: ATV, Analog: Channel 38, Digital: Channel 30 (Aomori, ID: 6)
  • Headquartered in Morioka, broadcast in Iwate Prefecture: IBC, Analog: Channel 6, Digital: Channel 16 (Morioka, ID: 6)
  • Headquartered in Sendai, broadcast in Miyagi Prefecture: TBC, Analog: Channel 1, Digital: Channel 19 (Sendai, ID: 1)
  • Headquartered in Nagano, broadcast in Nagano Prefecture: SBC, Analog: Channel 11, Digital: Channel 16 (Nagano, ID: 6)
  • Headquartered in Takaoka, broadcast in Toyama Prefecture: TUT, Analog: Channel 32, Digital: Channel 22 (Takaoka, ID: 6)
  • Headquartered in Fukuoka, broadcast in Fukuoka Prefecture: RKB, Analog: Channel 4, Digital: Channel 30 (Fukuoka, ID: 4)
  • Headquartered in Naha, broadcast in Okinawa Prefecture: RBC, Analog: Channel 10, Digital: Channel 14 (Naha, ID: 3)

Programs

Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.

Anime programming

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Main article: List of anime aired on TBS

See also

  • Hobankyo – organization based in Japan that enforces TBS copyright issues.
  • TBS video controversy – alleged cause of the Sakamoto family murder incident

References

  1. ↑ Japanese: 株式会社TBSテレビ Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha TBS Terebi?
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