Shikoku Broadcasting ( ja, 四国放送,
Rōmaji
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as .
Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from Ch ...
: ''Shikoku Hōsō'') is a radio and TV station based in
Tokushima
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...
, Japan. It is affiliated to the
Nippon News Network
Nippon News Network (NNN) is a Japanese commercial television network owned by Nippon Television, which itself is controlled by the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' newspaper. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news ...
and
Nippon Television Network System
Nippon Television Network System (; NNS) is a Japanese television network organized by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings through its subsidiary NTV. NTV feeds entertainment and other non-news programming over NNS to 29 affiliated stations.
Distrib ...
for TV and
JRN/
NRN
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for radio.
Despite holding a local
monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...
in commercial television to the prefecture, commercial television stations from
Kansai region
The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropolita ...
are easily available.
History
After the establishment of the "Three Radio Laws" (
Radio Law,
Broadcasting Law
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
, and
Radio Supervisory Committee Establishment Law) in 1950, Japan established a system where public broadcasting (
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 terrestr ...
) and commercial broadcasting coexisted.
*April 7, 1952: Shikoku Broadcasting is established.
*July 1, 1952: JR (as in JOJR) commences radio transmissions.
*April 1, 1959: Television transmissions commence.
*April 5, 1971: JR Television begins their morning show, Good Morning Tokushima (おはようとくしま).
*April 1982: The abbreviation is changed to JRT.
*December 1984: JRT moves to their current headquarters in Nakatokushima.
*July 1988: Bi-lingual TV broadcasts for certain shows commence.
*February 6, 2006: Digital terrestrial tests commence.
*October 1, 2006: Regular digital terrestrial broadcasts commence.
*March 31, 2011: Good Morning Tokushima is cancelled.
*July 24, 2011: Analog terrestrial broadcasts conclude.
*April 1, 2015: JRT joins the radiko project.
Stations
Radio:
Tokushima master station:
*Calls: JOJR
*Frequency: 1269 kHz
*Output: 5 kW
Ikeda station:
*Calls: (was JOJO)
*Frequency: 1269 kHz
*Output: 1 kW
Mugi station:
*Frequency: 1269 kHz
*Output: 100 W
Hiwasa station:
*Frequency: 1269 kHz
*Output: 100 W
Television:
Tokushima master station:
*Calls: JOJR-DTV
*Frequency: 581.142857 MHz
*Output: 1 kW
*ERP: 6.5 kW
Links
Official site
Television stations in Japan
Radio in Japan
Nippon News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1959
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