NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese public broadcasterNHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-service broadcasters, such as the BritishBBC (BBC World Service, BBC World News, etc.), France 24, or the GermanDW. Contents are broadcast through shortwave radio, satellite, and cable operators throughout the world, as well as online and through its mobile apps. NHK World-Japan is also available on DirecTV channels 322 and 2049.[1] It is headquartered in Tokyo.
NHK World-Japan currently provides three main broadcast services: an English-language current affairs TV channel of the same name, a multilingual radio service (NHK World Radio Japan), and a Japanese-language general/entertainment TV service (NHK World Premium). NHK World-Japan also makes most of its programming available through its website (either live or on demand).[2] A Chinese version of the news TV channel, NHK华语视界 (NHK Huayu Shijie), which essentially provides news and select programs from NHK World-Japan in Mandarin dubbing and/or subtitles, was launched on January 15, 2019,[3] and is only distributed online.
The branch was rebranded from its former name of NHK World in April 2018.[4]
NHK World TV 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 channel in February 2009. NHK World-Japan's free-to-air broadcasts have been available in HD by satellite since then.
NHK World-Japan HD currently broadcasts from Intelsat 19 166°E, 68.5°E, Astra 19.2°E, Hot Bird 13°E, 58°W, to SES S.A. 3 103°W.[5] Some of the shows are produced by production studio JIB TV, which is 60% owned by NHK with the remaining 40% owned by private investors like Microsoft and Japanese bank Mizuho. The NHK World-Japan DOG logo is not used at all when shows produced by JIB TV are aired as a paid programming.
Biz Stream: A weekly business news program featuring the main stories of the week with guest expert analysis.
Cool Japan: Hosted by Shoji Kokami and Risa Stegmayer; some aspects of Japanese customs are considered "cool" by foreigners. Cool Japan is a television show that illustrates the quickly changing Japanese culture and how it is perceived by the international community that have recently made Japan their home.
J-Melo: A music program hosted by May J., featuring the latest developments in Japanese music, selections of hit songs, and diverse material from a wide range of different music genres: pop, rock, jazz, and classical.
NHK Newsline: A news program with updates every hour, covering world events and business-related news, as well as providing global weather forecasts.
Somewhere Street: A travel program which explores a different city each episode, from a tourist's perspective walking through a city.
Today's Close-up: A current affairs program from the NHK's domestic network
Most recently, NHK World-Japan has promoting selections of their J-drama lineups under NHK Drama Showcase.[7]
It is marketed with that very name in several regions of the world, including Asia, Oceania and Latin America. In Europe, NHK World Premium's contents are shown instead on JSTV-branded subscription channels run by NHK Cosmomedia Europe and headquartered in the UK. The service is known as テレビジャパン (TV Japan) in the US, which is run by NHK Cosmomedia America. Contents generally do not carry English subtitles.[8]
Radio
NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) is the international radio arm of NHK. It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news, current affairs, cultural, and educative radio program focusing on Japan and Asia, for a daily total of 65 hours of broadcasts.
Radio Japan provides two main feeds:
The General Service broadcasts worldwide in Japanese and English.
The Regional Service broadcasts to specific geographical zones in 17 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. Both services are available on shortwave (SW) as well as on the internet.[9]
Radio Japan's shortwave relay stations
NHK World Radio Japan runs a domestic SW relay station on 9750 kHz from 8:00 to 16:00 UTC:[10]
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources NHK World Japan news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources NHK World Japan news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message NHK World Japan formerly and also known simply as NHK World is the international arm of the Japanese public broadcaster NHK Its services are aimed at the overseas market similar to those offered by other national public service broadcasters such as the British BBC BBC World Service BBC World News etc France 24 or the German DW Contents are broadcast through shortwave radio satellite and cable operators throughout the world as well as online and through its mobile apps NHK World Japan is also available on DirecTV channels 322 and 2049 1 It is headquartered in Tokyo NHK World JapanTypeBroadcasting news discussions state mediaCountryJapanBroadcast areaWorldwide except North Korea United KingdomHeadquartersTokyo JapanProgrammingLanguage s Japanese EnglishPicture format1080i 16 9 HDTV OwnershipOwnerGovernment of JapanParentNHKSister channelsNHK General TVNHK Educational TVNHK BS 1NHK BS PremiumNHK BS 4KNHK BS 8KNHK World TVNHK World PremiumHistoryLaunched1 April 1998 25 years ago 1998 04 01 Former namesNHK WorldLinksWebsitewww wbr nhk wbr or wbr jp wbr nhkworld wbr AvailabilityTerrestrialDigital terrestrial television United States List Channel 9 4 Utah KUEN Channel 11 2 Honolulu KHET Channel 12 4 Denver KBDI Channel 22 3 San Francisco KRCB Channel 60 3 San Francisco KPJK Channel 24 4 Orlando WUCF Channel 28 2 Tacoma Seattle KBTC Channel 28 3 Los Angeles KCET Channel 30 2 Atlanta WABE TV Channel 42 2 Charlotte WTVI Channel 56 2 Chicago WYIN Channel 57 2 Plattsburgh WCFE Channels x 2 New Jersey NJ PBS Channels x 4 Maryland Maryland Zuku TV Kenya Channel 570Streaming mediaNHK World JapanWatch live available worldwide NHK World Radio JapanListen live available worldwide NHK World Japan currently provides three main broadcast services an English language current affairs TV channel of the same name a multilingual radio service NHK World Radio Japan and a Japanese language general entertainment TV service NHK World Premium NHK World Japan also makes most of its programming available through its website either live or on demand 2 A Chinese version of the news TV channel NHK华语视界 NHK Huayu Shijie which essentially provides news and select programs from NHK World Japan in Mandarin dubbing and or subtitles was launched on January 15 2019 3 and is only distributed online The branch was rebranded from its former name of NHK World in April 2018 4 Contents 1 Television 1 1 NHK World TV rolling news channel 1 1 1 Programs 1 2 NHK World Premium entertainment channel 2 Radio 2 1 Radio Japan s shortwave relay stations 3 Satellite and internet service 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksTelevision EditNHK World TV rolling news channel Edit NHK World TV 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 channel in February 2009 NHK World Japan s free to air broadcasts have been available in HD by satellite since then NHK World Japan HD currently broadcasts from Intelsat 19 166 E 68 5 E Astra 19 2 E Hot Bird 13 E 58 W to SES S A 3 103 W 5 Some of the shows are produced by production studio JIB TV which is 60 owned by NHK with the remaining 40 owned by private investors like Microsoft and Japanese bank Mizuho The NHK World Japan DOG logo is not used at all when shows produced by JIB TV are aired as a paid programming Programs Edit TV programs by NHK World Japan include 6 Begin Japanology and Japanology Plus A Japanese culture and lifestyle television show with Peter Barakan Biz Stream A weekly business news program featuring the main stories of the week with guest expert analysis Cool Japan Hosted by Shoji Kokami and Risa Stegmayer some aspects of Japanese customs are considered cool by foreigners Cool Japan is a television show that illustrates the quickly changing Japanese culture and how it is perceived by the international community that have recently made Japan their home J Melo A music program hosted by May J featuring the latest developments in Japanese music selections of hit songs and diverse material from a wide range of different music genres pop rock jazz and classical NHK Newsline A news program with updates every hour covering world events and business related news as well as providing global weather forecasts Somewhere Street A travel program which explores a different city each episode from a tourist s perspective walking through a city Today s Close up A current affairs program from the NHK s domestic networkMost recently NHK World Japan has promoting selections of their J drama lineups under NHK Drama Showcase 7 NHK World Premium entertainment channel Edit NHK World Premium broadcasts a mixture of news sports and entertainment in Japanese language worldwide via satellite and cable providers as a subscription service mostly targeted at Japanese expatriates It is marketed with that very name in several regions of the world including Asia Oceania and Latin America In Europe NHK World Premium s contents are shown instead on JSTV branded subscription channels run by NHK Cosmomedia Europe and headquartered in the UK The service is known as テレビジャパン TV Japan in the US which is run by NHK Cosmomedia America Contents generally do not carry English subtitles 8 Radio Edit NHK World Radio Japan RJ is the international radio arm of NHK It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news current affairs cultural and educative radio program focusing on Japan and Asia for a daily total of 65 hours of broadcasts Radio Japan provides two main feeds The General Service broadcasts worldwide in Japanese and English The Regional Service broadcasts to specific geographical zones in 17 languages Arabic Bengali Burmese Chinese English French Hindi Indonesian Korean Persian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Thai Urdu Vietnamese Both services are available on shortwave SW as well as on the internet 9 Radio Japan s shortwave relay stations Edit NHK World Radio Japan runs a domestic SW relay station on 9750 kHz from 8 00 to 16 00 UTC 10 YamataIt also leases some hours by several external relay stations for English service in United Kingdom United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Myanmar Madagascar Vatican State Vatican Radio France Radio France InternationaleSatellite and internet service EditNHK World Japan broadcasts via C band and Ku band satellites around the globe The programs and content are also available online NHK World Japan online news text and live video stream of the rolling news channel NHK World Radio Japan live radio streams podcasts and archive programming Learn Japanese re edited versions of series such as Basic Japanese for You and Brush Up Your Japanese Only a limited number of programs are available online for free 11 NHK is available on Apple TV Fire TV and Roku streaming media players See also EditTelevision in Japan International broadcasting in Japan International news channelsReferences Edit NHK World News Live Stream Watch Shows Online DIRECTV Archived from the original on October 22 2021 Retrieved April 7 2022 NHK WORLD JAPAN Live and Programs NHK World Japan Archived from the original on March 3 2020 Retrieved July 20 2021 New Chinese service NHK Huayu Shijie PDF www nhk or jp December 19 2018 Archived PDF from the original on July 21 2021 Retrieved July 21 2021 New name NHK WORLD JAPAN PDF www nhk or jp February 21 2018 Archived from the original PDF on November 5 2021 Retrieved February 28 2018 Lyngsat NHK World Japan Archived July 8 2021 at the Wayback Machine Accessed July 20 2021 Programs NHK WORLD JAPAN Archived from the original on July 21 2021 Retrieved July 21 2021 NHK Drama Showcase NHK WORLD JAPAN Archived from the original on March 14 2023 Retrieved February 22 2023 TV JAPAN Customer Service tvjapan net archived from the original on July 23 2021 retrieved July 19 2021 NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation Shortwave Medium Wave and FM Radio PDF NHK WORLD Archived PDF from the original on October 11 2021 Retrieved July 20 2021 A21 Shortwave Frequency List Nagoya DXers Circle Archived from the original on July 23 2021 Retrieved July 20 2021 NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation Frequently Asked Questions FAQ NHK WORLD Archived from the original on July 21 2021 Retrieved July 21 2021 External links EditOfficial website NHK World Premium NHK World Japan s channel on YouTube NHK World Radio Japan interval signal Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title NHK World Japan amp oldid 1154689731 Radio, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
