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InterFM (JODW-FM 89.7
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, 76.5 MHz
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) is a Japanese commercial radio station on the
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area (including
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), and owned and operated by . Since September 2020, it is a subsidiary of The Japan FM Network Company, owner of until then rival
Tokyo FM (abbreviation:TFM) is a radio station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the flagship station of the Japan FM Network (JFN). Timeline The station's forerunner, FM Tokai (FM東海, abbreviated FMT), owned by Tokai University, was launched on ...
. InterFM was formerly the key station of MegaNet. InterFM started broadcasting from its new frequency of 89.7 MHz on June 26, 2015 with its first official broadcast started on June 30 the same year at 6:00 p.m. InterFM ended broadcasting on its old frequency (76.1 MHz) on October 31, 2015.


Programming

InterFM's slogan is ''The Real Music Station'' since April 2013. Its previous slogan was "Tokyo's No. 1 Music Station". The station uses English as its main language besides
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, with the Public Service Announcement segments aired in
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,
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, Tagalog, Indonesian,
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, Thai, Portuguese, and French to better serve the international community in the Tokyo Metropolitan area and its vicinity, not to mention news and other information bits in Japanese that the locals will find convenient. 70% of its airtime is dedicated to music created and played worldwide, while the remaining 30% goes to
Japanese pop J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in trad ...
and
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music selected in large part by a committee.


Shareholders


Current

* The Japan FM Network Company (since September 2020)


Past

*
The Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...
(past) *
TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Kinoshita Management Inc. (2016–2020)


See also

* MegaNet *
Japan FM Network Japan FM Network (JFN; ) is a Japanese commercial radio network. It was founded in 1981. Tokyo FM is the flagship station of the network. Overview FM Tokyo (Tokyo FM), FM Aichi, FM Osaka, and FM Fukuoka, the initial commercial FM stati ...
*
FM COCOLO , stylized as FM COCOLO, is a multilingual FM radio station owned and operated by FM 802 Co., Ltd. The station broadcasts on the 76.5 MHz FM broadcasting in Japan, FM to the Kansai area which includes Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Kyoto Prefecture, ...
* Love FM


References


External links

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About InterFM897
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