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| Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation | |
Native name | Rkb+ 毎日放送株式会社 |
Romanized name | Rkb+ Mainichihōsō kabushikigaisha |
| Type | Kabushiki gaisha |
| Industry | Television network |
| Founded | June 29, 1951 as Radio Kyushu Broadcasting August 1, 1958 as RKB Mainichi Broadcasting |
| Headquarters | 2-3-8 Momochihama, Sawaraku, , Japan |
Key people | Ryoji Inoue (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Holdings) Izumi Sato (President and Representative Director; Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting) |
| Parent | Rkb+ Mainichi Holdings Corporation |
| Website | rkb |
| Footnotes / references Data from its Corporate Profile | |
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| Channels | |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Japan News Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Co, Inc. |
| History | |
| Founded | June 29, 1951 |
First air date | March 1, 1958 |
Former call signs | JOFR-TV (1958–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | 4 (analog VHF, 1958–2011) |
| Nippon News Network (secondary, 1964-1969) | |
Call sign meaning | JO Fukuoka Radio or FouR (channel number) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | MIC |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°35′34.285″N 130°21′3.161″E / 33.59285694°N 130.35087806°E |
| Links | |
| Website | http://rkb.jp/ |
Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation (Rkb+ 毎日放送株式会社, RKB mainichi hoso kabushiki gaisha) (stylized as +rkb) is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network. It is owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Mainichi Shimbun and the Aso Group.
The initials RKB stand for Radio Kyushu Broadcasting (ラジオ九州放送, rajio kyushu hoso), the station's former name.[1][2]
History
In 1950, following the enactment of the Radio Law, Mainichi Shimbun wanted to establish three radio stations (Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka). The Fukuoka station was named Radio Kyushu. A license for JOFR was issued on April 21, 1951 and the company was formally established on June 29. On December 1, Radio Kyushu begins its operations.
RKB started television broadcasts on March 1, 1958. At the same time, the station had to merge with Mainichi Seibu Television (tentative calls JOGX-TV, later reassigned in 2013 after CBC TV spun-off). Consequently the planned JOGX was opened as the Kitakyushu satellite station (JOFO-TV).
Station
Radio
- Fukuoka: 1278 kHz JOFR 50 kW; 91.0 MHz FM
- Kitakyushu: 1197 kHz JOFO 1 kW; 91.5 MHz FM
- Omuta: 1062 kHz JOFE 100W; 94.8 MHz FM
- Yukuhashi: 1062 kHz 100W; 94.6 MHz FM
TV (Analog)
- Fukuoka: Channel 4 JOFR-TV
- Kitakyushu :Channel 8 JOFO-TV
- Kurume: Channel 48 JOFC-TV
- Omuta: Channel 61
- Yukuhashi: Channel 60
TV (Digital)
- Button 4
- Fukuoka: Channel 30 JOFR-DTV
Program
Anime
TV
- Kyokan TV(13:55 - 15:50 every Monday To Friday)
- Kyokan News
- Watch@24
- Rkb+ Sunday Watch
- Tadaima!
- TEEN!TEEN!
- Mame Gohan。
- P Paradise (about Pachinko).
Other TV stations in Fukuoka
- NHK Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
- Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, 九州朝日放送, affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
- Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation (FBS, 福岡放送, affiliated with NTV and NNN / NNS) - 5
- TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting (TVQ, TVQ九州放送, affiliated with TV Tokyo and TX Network) - 7
- Television Nishinippon Corporation (TNC, テレビ西日本, affiliated with CX and FNN / FNS) - 8
References
- ↑ Gabriella Lukács (15 July 2010). Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan. Duke University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-8223-9323-8.
- ↑ 放送十年 : RKB每日社史 [10 Years of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting] (in Japanese). Japan: RKB Mainichi Broadcasting. 1962. OCLC 881300518.