Korean Broadcasting System

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Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
한국방송공사
Type Broadcast radio and
television
Country  South Korea
Availability National
International
Launch date 1927 (radio); 1961 (television); 1996 (satellite); 1998 (digital); 2005 (DMB)
Official website www.kbs.co.kr
Korean name
Hangul 한국방송공사
Hanja 韓國放送公社
Revised Romanization Han-guk Bangsong Gongsa
McCune–Reischauer Han'guk Pangsong Kongsa

Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) (Korean: 한국 방송 공사, Hanguk Bangsong Gongsa) is a South Korean radio and television network, founded in 1927. It is the biggest out of the four major South Korean television networks.

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[edit] History

KBS began as Kyeongseong Broadcasting Corporation (JODK) that established by the Japanese government in Korea on February 16, 1927. This second radio station started using the call sign HLKA in 1947 after the Republic of Korea got the call sign HL of the International Telecommunication Union. After doing a national broadcast, the radio was renamed Seoul Central Broadcasting Station in 1948. Television broadcast Seoul TV Broadcasting Station (KBS TV) began broadcasting since 1961. KBS station status changed from government to public broadcasting stations since March 3, 1973. KBS headquarters in Yeouido started construction in 1976. In 1979, KBS radio began broadcasting on the FM wave. Different from the public broadcaster that does not accept advertising, apart from television fees, part of KBS revenue also comes from advertisers.KBS began to accept advertising since 1980 from the merger with the private broadcasting stations is smaller at the discretion of Chun Doo-hwan government restrictions on freedom of speech. After the merger with Tongyang Broadcasting Company (TBC), the former body of JTBC and Dong-A Broadcasting System (DBS), KBS launched KBS Radio 2 (AM / FM) and television station KBS TV2 in 1980, as well as KBS TV3 and Educational FM in 1981. On December 27, 1990, KBS TV3 and Educational FM has apart from KBS with the name of Educational Broadcasting System (EBS). After the revision of the television fee collection system in 1994, KBS TV1 is no longer serving ads.

[edit] Structure

KBS headquarters in Seoul
KBS broadcasting station

KBS is a 'public organization' that, by law, receives public funding from the South Korean government but is independently managed. As mentioned on the South Korean Constitution, the president of KBS is recommended by its board of directors to the President of South Korea. Political parties in South Korea have the right to name members of the board of directors of KBS. Since the President of South Korea usually has leadership over the members of the ruling party, KBS's president is considered to be designated by the President of South Korea. This procedure has incurred worries of political intervention in KBS' governance and has led to many thinking that the current system of recruiting needs to be revised.

Around 37.8% of its revenue comes from a mandatory Television Licence Fee, while 47.6% of the revenue comes from commercial advertisement sales.[1] For national or governmental programs such as International Radio service (KBS World Radio) and the Radio service for physically handicapped people, KBS receives public funds from the South Korean government.

[edit] Channels

[edit] Terrestrial television

  • KBS 1TV - news, current affairs, education, sports, and culture. It launched in 1961 as HLKA-TV. KBS 1TV is solely run using License Fee and doesn't show any commercial announcement. It is on national terrestrial channel 1 for both analog and digital simllar to BBC One and Nederland 1. KBS 1TV is also showing public information films made by KBS and entertainment programming, but the rest are on KBS 2TV.
  • KBS 2TV - entertainment and drama only. It launched in 1980 as a replacement for the defunct Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation, not to be mistaken as TBC-TV (SBS afiliate in Daegu, South Korea). It is on national terrestrial channel 2 for both analog and digital simillar to BBC Two and Nederland 2.

[edit] Cable and Satellite television (KBS N)

  • KBS Prime - culture and drama. Launched in 1995 as KBS satellite 2, renamed as KBS Korea in 2002.
  • KBS Drama - formerly KBS Sky Drama. Launched in 2002.
  • KBS N Sports - formerly KBS Sports/KBS Sky Sports. Also launched in 2002.
  • KBS Joy - comedy and quiz show. Launched in 2006.

These four channels are carried by cable and satellite operators in South Korea. There are 100+ Cable operators in South Korea and Skylife is the sole satellite television service provider. These channels are managed and operated by KBS N, a subsidiary company of KBS.

[edit] Radio

  • KBS Radio 1 (AM/FM) - news, current affairs, documentary and culture. Launched in 1927 as Kyeongseong Broadcasting Corporation JODK and it became KBS Radio 1 in 1965.
  • KBS Radio 2 (AM/FM) - entertainment. Launched in 1948 as HLKA.
  • KBS Radio 3 (AM/FM) - Launched in 1973 as RSB (Radio Seoul Broadcasting), renamed as TBC Radio in the 1970s, then current name in 1980, and ceased broadcasting in 1981. It was later replaced by KBS Radio 2's regional radio service and Educational FM (now EBS FM). Later re-launched in 2000 as a spin-off from KBS Radio 2. For the first time in 2010, it was launched on FM and restructured as a radio station for the disabled.
  • KBS 1FM (FM) - classical music and folkmusic. Launched in 1979 as KBS-FM.
  • KBS 2FM (89.1 MHz Cool FM) - popular music. Launched in 1966 as TBC-FM.
  • KBS Han minjok radio (shortwave & mediumwave) - Launched in 1975 as KBS Third Programme
  • KBS World Radio - international service [see also RFI, BBC World Service and Radio Canada International], as well as satellite and international services.

[edit] List of KBS programs

[edit] Dramas

[edit] Awards

[edit] Documentaries

[edit] News and Current Affairs

  • KBS News 9 (KBS 9시뉴스.) Main news programme on KBS 1TV
  • KBS News Plaza (KBS 뉴스광장. Breakfast programme)
  • KBS News 7 (KBS 뉴스7. Evening programme with some local segments)
  • KBS Newsline (KBS 뉴스라인) Midnight programme
  • Midnight Debate-Live (생방송 심야토론. Sunday-night debate programme)
  • Media Focus (미디어 포커스. Mediawatch programme)
  • Coverage-File 4321 (취재파일 4321. Sunday's In-depth news coverage programme)
  • KBS SportsTime (KBS 스포츠타임)

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Children's

  • Funny Funny (파니파니)
  • Goosebumps (Former) (명소름닭살 )

[edit] Other

[edit] KBS World

KBS World.svg
KBS on mobile TV in DMB system

KBS World is the international television and radio service of KBS. It officially launched on July 1, 2003. It is broadcasted on a 24hr schedule with programs ranging from news, sports, television dramas, entertainment, and children's. KBS World television is broadcasted locally and around the world. As of July 2007, around 65% of its programs are broadcast with English subtitles, it is available in 32 countries, and reportedly more than 40 million households around the world can access KBS World[citation needed]. It has two overseas subsidiaries: KBS America and KBS Japan. KBS Japan is independently operated by a KBS' subsidiary in Japan, and most programs are provided with Japanese subtitles.

KBS World television is a television channel that runs mostly programs commissioned for KBS' 2 terrestrial networks: KBS1 and KBS2. KBS World television is distributed over several international communication and broadcasting satellites such as IS-8, IS-9, IS-10, Measat 3, Asiasat 5, Hotbird 6, Galaxy 18, Badr 6. Local cable and/or satellite operators receive the signal from one of these satellite and carry the signal to end subscribers of their own networks. KBS doesn't allow individual viewer to receive the signal from IS-8, IS-9, IS-10, Measat 3, Asiasat 5, and Galaxy 18. The signal from Badr 6 is Free-to-Air service while viewers using Hotbird 6 are required to pay monthly subscription fee.

[edit] Foreign partners

Network(s) Country
ABC Australia
CBC Canada
CCTV China
TF1 France
ARD Germany
TVB Hong Kong,China
RCTI Indonesia
TV3 Malaysia
TCS Singapore
NHK, TBS Japan
NPB Netherlands
TVNZ New Zealand
RTP Portugal
TTV Taiwan
ABS-CBN Philippines
VGTRK Russia
TVE Spain
NBT Thailand
BBC United Kingdom
NBC United States
SBT Brazil

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Korean Broadcasting System

[edit] References

  1. ^ KBS Annual Report 2006-2007, KBS, 2007.(As mentioned on page 30)

[edit] External links
Commercial networks
Public television
KBS Entertainment Shows
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Coordinates: 37°31′31″N 126°54′59″E / 37.52538°N 126.916361°E / 37.52538; 126.916361

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