is a

commercial broadcasting Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship. It was the United States′ first model of radio (a ...

station headquartered in

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the c ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

. It is doing business in Kyoto Prefecture as and in Shiga Prefecture as Its

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

serves Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures and is a member of National Radio Network (NRN). Its television station serves Kyoto Prefecture and is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations ( JAITS). Since April 1, 2005, KBS is broadcasting

digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative adva ...

ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese: , ''Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu'') is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio. ISDB supersedes both the NTSC-J analog television system and ...

format.

Broadcasting

AM Radio

KBS Kyoto Radio (京都放送ラジオ) *

- 1143 kHz, 50 kW, JOBR * Maizuru - 1215 kHz, 2 kW, JOBO *

Fukuchiyama 250px, Fukuchiyama Castle 250px, Fukuchiyama city center is a city in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 76,037 in 36412 households and a population density of 140 persons per km². The total area ...

- 1485 kHz, 100 W, JOBE *KBS Shiga ( Hikone) - 1215 kHz, 1 kW, JOBW, some prefectural programming.

FM Radio

94.9 MHz 3 kW

TV (Analogue)

JOBR-TV - KBS Kyoto Television (京都放送テレビジョン) *Kyoto - Channel 34, 10 kW *Uji-Momoyama - Channel 57 *Maizuru - Channel 57, 100 W *Fukuchiyama - Channel 56, 200 W *Miyazu - Channel 39, 100 W *Yamashina - Channel 62, 10 W *Wazuka - Channel 40, 10 W *Yawata - Channel 43, 3 W *Kameoka - Channel 41, 300 W and more

TV (Digital)

JOBR-DTV - KBS Kyoto Digital Television (京都放送デジタルテレビジョン) *Remote Controller ID 5 *Kyoto - Channel 23

History

Main source: :ja:京都放送#沿革 excerpt as of 2007-06-29T11:17 *24 December 1951: opens as . *1964: Changes company name to . *1968: Starts television test transmission from Mount Hiei. *1969: Starts television broadcasting service. Networking with Tokyo 12 channel (now

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 certifie ...

) and Nippon Educational Television (now

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Comp ...

.) (Currently KBS is not a member of eithers' network.) *1981: Began doing business as "KBS Kyoto". * It was involved with the Itoman fraud case for a certain period of time in 1990s which risked the company to bankruptcy. *1994: Some employees went to court for to save KBS. *1995: Changed to company name to , reviving the original Japanese name. *1999: The corporation reorganization procedure begins. *1 April 2005: Starts digital television broadcasting. *2007: The corporation reorganization procedure is complete. *2008: Well known toy brand Tomy releases a Kyoto Broadcasting System Choro-Q toy van editio

Program

TV

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Radio

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All Night Nippon is a Japanese radio program broadcast by Nippon Broadcasting System and other radio stations from 1–5 am (JST). It preempts broadcasts from TBS Radio's programming heard on stations under both JRN and NRN ( TBC Radio, CBC Radio, etc.). ...

(produced by Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. (LF)) **All Night Nippon (Mon. - Sat. from 25:00 until 27:00) **All Night Nippon Ever Green (Mon. - Thu. from 27:00 until 29:00) **All Night Nippon R (Fri. and Sat. from 27:00 until 29:00) **Fukuyama Masaharu All Night Nippon Saturday Special Tamashii no Radio (Sat. from 23:30 until 25:00)
Note: All times are in

Japan Standard Time , or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred t ...

(UTC+9) in this article. The broadcast time can exceed 23:59, this refers to the morning hours of the following day (meaning Mon 27:00 - 29:00 equals Tue 03:00 - 05:00.)

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* {{Authority control Independent television stations in Japan Radio in Japan Television stations in Japan Companies based in Kyoto Radio stations established in 1951 Television channels and stations established in 1969 Japanese companies established in 1951 Mass media in Kyoto