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TBS Television (Japan)
TV station in Kantō region, wholly owned by TBS Holdings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as TBS Television (TBSテレビ, TBS Terebi), is the Kantō region flagship station of the Japan News Network. It is owned-and-operated by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.[lower-alpha 1], a subsidiary of TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''.
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City | Tokyo |
Channels | |
Branding | TBS Television |
Programming | |
Affiliations | Japan News Network |
Ownership | |
Owner | Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. |
BS-TBS TBS Channel 1 TBS Channel 2 TBS News | |
History | |
First air date | April 1, 1955; 69 years ago (1955-04-01) |
Former call signs | JOKR-TV (1955-2001) JORX-TV (2001-2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF) (1955-2011) |
Call sign meaning | JOKR-TV: JO Kabushiki gaisha Radio Tokyo (former name of TBS) JORX-(D)TV: JO Radio Tokyo (X) |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | MIC |
ERP | 10 kW (68 kW ERP) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°39′31″N 139°44′44″E |
Translator(s) | Niijima, Tokyo Analog: Channel 56 Mito, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 56 |
Corporate information | |
Company | |
Native name | 株式会社TBSテレビ |
Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha TBS terebi |
Company type | Subsidiary KK |
Industry | Media |
Founded | March 21, 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-03-21) in Tokyo, Japan |
Headquarters | TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
Services | |
Parent | TBS Holdings |
Website | www |
Footnotes / references Data from its Corporate Profile | |
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 called Paravi. 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.[1][2][3]