is a Japanese television broadcasting company serving viewers in

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, the

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, and

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. Launched in March 1990 and broadcasting from

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, it carries the programming from the

NHK World Premium NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to worldwid ...

service in the regions served. The channel initially broadcast for two hours each night from 8pm (GMT) on the

Lifestyle Lifestyle often refers to: * Lifestyle (sociology), the way a person lives * ''Otium'', ancient Roman concept of a lifestyle * Style of life (german: Lebensstil, link=no), dealing with the dynamics of personality Lifestyle may also refer to: Bus ...

transponder 5 on the

Astra 1A Astra 1A was the first satellite launched and operated by SES (Société Européenne des Satellites), launched in December 1988. During its early days, it was often referred to as the Astra Satellite, as SES only operated one satellite original ...

satellite in analogue format (frequency 11.273 MHz, time-sharing with

The Children's Channel The Children's Channel, also known as TCC, was a British-based pan-European children's television channel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which was owned by Flextech in London, England, UK. It began broadcasting on the original Eutelsat ...

, Lifestyle and The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox). Later on 3 June 1991, it started using transponder 24 on

Astra 1B Astra 1B was the second of the Astra communications satellites launched and operated by SES (Société Européenne des Satellites) to add extra capacity to the satellite television (direct broadcasting) services from 19.2° East, serving Germa ...

, at frequency 11.567 MHz for 11 hours a day, using the Videocrypt II encryption (time-sharing with The Children's Channel and later with CMT Europe). It eventually moved to transponder 53 (frequency 10.773) to broadcast 24 hours a day. Analogue transmissions for JSTV on Astra ceased on 31 October 2001. JSTV currently broadcasts in

DVB-S Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original DVB standard for Satellite Television and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997. The first commercial applications was by Star TV in Asia ...

on Eutelsat Hotbird 6, encrypted in

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, except some programmes, and broadcasts programs of

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestri ...

Fuji TV JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and operated by the it is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network Sys ...

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...

and other main Japanese broadcasters. News programs are mostly direct and Live from the original broadcaster, however several other programs such as

Anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

and Variety shows are not up to date. Not all programs are encrypted; ''

NHK News 7 is the early evening news program broadcast domestically on NHK General TV and internationally on NHK World Premium. It has been on the air daily since April 5, 1993, from 7:00pm to 7:30pm ( JST).

'', ''

News Watch 9 , stylized as ''NEWS WATCH 9'' is the flagship evening news program of the public Japanese broadcaster, NHK. It airs weekdays on NHK General Television and worldwide on NHK World Premium and is also available on the networks video-on-demand servi ...

'' and some English programs are broadcast

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

. JSTV currently operates two channels: JSTV1 which broadcasts TV programmes approximately 20 hours a day and JSTV2 which broadcasts TV programmes 24 hours a day.

Stockholders

Enterprise, Inc. *

Marubeni (, OSE: 8002, NSE: 8002) is a ''sōgō shōsha'' (general trading company) headquartered in Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest ''sogo shosha'' and has leading market shares in cereal and paper pulp trading as well as a st ...

Corporation Plc *

Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. , or MHCB, was the corporate and investment banking subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, the second-biggest Japanese financial services conglomerate, prior to the reintegration of investment banking services under the Mizuho Bank name in July 20 ...

All Nippon Airways , also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had mo ...

, Co. Ltd *

Mitsukoshi is an international department store chain with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. It is a subsidiary of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, which also owns the Isetan department store chain. History It was founded in 1673 with the (shop name) , selli ...

UK, Ltd. *

Global Media Services, Inc.

Encryption & Availability

* Satellite

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Hot Bird Hot Bird (also styled HOTBIRD) is a group of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13 °E over the equator ( orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Asia, Europe, North Africa, Americas and the Middle East. Only digital r ...

6 (12597 MHz, Vertical, 3/4, VPID 2000, APID 2002/2001) Encrypted (

Cryptoworks In television encryption, Cryptoworks is a DVB conditional access system, developed by Philips CryptoTec but now belonging to Irdeto. Cryptoworks is used by the following pay TV providers: * OSN *Digiturk *the BFBS satellite service * UPC Dir ...

encryption was discontinued on 30 September 2019. Analogue: ASTRA losed down on 31 October 2001 * Hotels Currently, JSTV broadcasts in several hotels in

and the Middle East, Complete list available on th
official web site of JSTV
an

* JSTV-i JSTV is available through "JSTV-i" to European consumers via Western Digital's

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LIVE STB. More information is available on th
official JSTV-i web site.

Channels

JSTV 1: TV programmes JSTV 2: Radio programmes (

World Radio Japan) and JSTV 1 TV Schedule on screen.
(Since 31 March 2008 JSTV 2 broadcast TV programmes from 1700 UK time to 2200 UK time 7 days a week, and from 1 April 2009 now broadcasts TV Programmes from 0500 to 1000 and then 1500 to 2200 UK time)

Programmes

Dual language News (Japanese & English) *

* News Watch 9, NHK Newswatch 9 * Global Debate WISDOM * Sumo News * NHK/BS NEWS * Good Morning, Japan * Sunday Sports News *

FNN Speak FNN may refer to: * False nearest neighbor algorithm * Farnborough North railway station, in England * Feedforward neural network * Financial News Network, a defunct American television network * Flat neighborhood network, a type of computer netwo ...

* FNN Super News * News Watch 9, NHK Newswatch 9 * Today's Close-up Variety * Hello from Studio Park (スタジオパークからこんにちは)

* Riddles on Mobile (着信御礼！ケータイ大喜利)

* VS Arashi (VS嵐)

* Shoten (笑点)

NTV NTV may refer to: Television * NTV (Bangladesh), a Bengali-language satellite television channel in Bangladesh * NTV (India), Telugu regional channel * NTV (Kenya) * NTV (Mongolia), a television channel based in Mongolia * NTV (Newport Television) ...

* Why did you come to Japan? (Youは何しに日本へ？)

* Peke X Pon (ペケXポン)

Documentary * NHK Special (NHKスペシャル)

* The Professionals (プロフェッショナル仕事の流儀)

* Document 72hours (ドキュメント７２時間)

Anime *

Ace of Diamond is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from May 2006 to January 2015. A sequel titled ''Ace of Diamon ...

(ダイヤのA) *

Keroro The following is a list of various characters in the fictional universe of the anime and manga series '' Sgt. Frog'' and related works. Keroro Platoon The is led by Sergeant Keroro. While most platoons contain thirty or forty soldiers, the ...

(ケロロ軍曹) *

Chibi Maruko-chan is a shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Momoko Sakura. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of Momoko Sakura, a young girl everyone calls ''Maruko'', and her family in suburban Japan in the year 1974. Maruko is a tro ...

(ちびまる子ちゃん) Kids *

Grand Whiz-Kids Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and co ...

TV (大！天才てれびくん) *

Okaasan to Issho is a children's television program airing weekday mornings in Japan on NHK. The show consists of seasonal songs, the Galapico Pu segment, and animated shorts like Tomodachi Hachi Nin (previously also ''Deko Boko Friends''). , the program was ho ...

(With Mother おかあさんといっしょ) *

Inai Inai Baa! ''Inai Inai Baa!'' ( ja, ) is a children's TV program broadcast by NHK Educational TV for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers (0–6 years old), consisting of gymnastics, songs, educations, etc. It started airing on April 1, 1996. Overview N ...

(いないいないばあっ!) *

Play Japanese Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

(にほんごであそぼ) *

Play English Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

(えいごであそぼ) Complete programme list available a
here

Related Channels

NHK World PremiumNHK World Premium Australia

External links

*{{official website NHK Japanese-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Japan