NHK World
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| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| District of Columbia (MHz Networks) |
Channel 30.2 |
| Satellite | |
| Astro Malaysia | Channel 963 |
| Indovision Indonesia | Channel 354 |
| TrueVisions Thailand | Channel 76 |
| SKY Latin America Brazil & Mexico | Channel 111 (Brazil) Channel 283 (Mexico) |
| Eurobird 1 UK (Sky Digital & Freesat |
Channel 516 (Sky Digital) Channel 209 (Freesat) |
| Optus D2 Australia (GlobeCast) | 12546 V 22500-3/4 |
| DD Direct+ India | Channel 42 |
| SES Astra Europe | Channel 574 (Spain, Digital +) |
| Cable | |
| Global Destiny Cable Philippines | Channel 72 & 73 |
| SkyCable Philippines | Channel 78 |
| StarHub TV Singapore | Channel 43 |
| TrueVisions Thailand | Channel 76 |
| First Media Indonesia | Channel 257 |
| Parasat Cable TV Philippines | Channel 109 |
NHK World is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market.
NHK World provides three services: NHK World Radio Japan, NHK World TV, and NHK World Premium. NHK World also makes some of its programming available online.
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[edit] Radio Japan
NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) broadcasts news, information, and entertainment programs focusing on Japan and Asia, for a daily total of 65 hours of broadcasts. Radio Japan provides two services:
- General Service broadcasts worldwide in Japanese and English
- Regional Service broadcasts to specific geographical zones in 17 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese
Both services are available on shortwave (SW) as well as online.
[edit] RJ SW Relay Stations
RJ runs a domestic SW relay station
RJ also leases or owns several external relay stations
- United Kingdom - BBC
- Ascension Island - BBC relay station
- Gabon
- UAE
- Sri Lanka
- Singapore - BBC relay station
- Canada - Radio Canada International
- Bonaire Island - Radio Netherlands
- French Guiana - Radio France Internationale
[edit] Radio Japan historical output (1950-1996)
For a comparison of Radio Japan to other broadcasters see the following:
| Estimated total direct programme hours per week of some external radio broadcasters | ||||||
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| Broadcaster | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 1996[1] |
 VOA, RFE/RL & Radio Marti |
497 | 1,495 | 1,907 | 1,901 | 2,611 | 1,821 |
 China Radio International |
66 | 687 | 1,267 | 1,350 | 1,515 | 1,620 |
 BBC World Service |
643 | 589 | 723 | 719 | 796 | 1,036 |
 Radio Moscow / Voice of Russia[2] |
533 | 1,015 | 1,908 | 2,094 | 1,876 | 726 |
 Deutsche Welle |
0 | 315 | 779 | 804 | 848 | 655 |
 Radio Cairo / ERTU |
0 | 301 | 540 | 546 | 605 | 604 |
 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting |
12 | 24 | 155 | 175 | 400 | 575 |
 All India Radio |
116 | 157 | 271 | 389 | 456 | 500 |
 NHK World Radio Japan |
0 | 203 | 259 | 259 | 343 | 468 |
 Radio France Internationale |
198 | 326 | 200 | 125 | 379 | 459 |
 Radio Netherlands |
127 | 178 | 335 | 289 | 323 | 392 |
 Israel Radio International |
0 | 91 | 158 | 210 | 253 | 365 |
 Voice of Turkey |
40 | 77 | 88 | 199 | 322 | 364 |
 Radio Pyongyang / Voice of Korea |
0 | 159 | 330 | 597 | 534 | 364 |
 Radio Bulgaria |
30 | 117 | 164 | 236 | 320 | 338 |
 Radio Australia |
181 | 257 | 350 | 333 | 330 | 307 |
 Radio Tirana |
26 | 63 | 487 | 560 | 451 | 303 |
 Radio Romania International |
30 | 159 | 185 | 198 | 199 | 298 |
 Radio Exterior de España |
68 | 202 | 251 | 239 | 403 | 270 |
 Radiodifusão Portuguesa Internacional |
46 | 133 | 295 | 214 | 203 | 226 |
 Radio Havana Cuba |
0 | 0 | 320 | 424 | 352 | 203 |
 Radio RAI International |
170 | 205 | 165 | 169 | 181 | 203 |
 Radio Canada International |
85 | 80 | 98 | 134 | 195 | 175 |
 Radio Polonia |
131 | 232 | 334 | 337 | 292 | 171 |
 Radio RSA / Channel Africa |
0 | 63 | 150 | 183 | 156 | 159 |
 Sveriges Radio International |
28 | 114 | 140 | 155 | 167 | 149 |
 Magyar Rádió |
76 | 120 | 105 | 127 | 102 | 144 |
 Radio Prague[3] |
119 | 196 | 202 | 255 | 131 | 131 |
 Voice of Nigeria[4] |
0 | 0 | 62 | 170 | 120 | 127 |
 Radio Belgrade |
80 | 70 | 76 | 72 | 96 | 68 |
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Source: International Broadcast Audience Research, June 1996 The list includes about a quarter of the world's external broadcasters whose output is both publicly funded and worldwide. Among those excluded are Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea and various international commercial and religious stations. Notes:
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[edit] Television service of NHK World
[edit] NHK World TV
NHK's news and information channel broadcasts internationally via satellite and cable TV. Programming is broadcast in English. Began as a news channel in February 2009 using the traditional NHK World logo in their own Digital On Screen Graphic. Previously, NHK World TV used the traditional "3 Eggs" logo of NHK. The NHK World Digital On-Screen Graphic in the news program, Newsline, is on the bottom left corner of the television screen. In other programming, the Digital On-Screen Graphic is moved to the top left corner of the television screen.
[edit] NHK World Premium
NHK World Premium broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese worldwide via satellite.
[edit] Internet service
NHK World programs and contents are available online:
- Radio Japan Online - Radio Japan live streams, podcasts and archive programming.
- Daily News - Online news
- Weekly Program - Weekly programming from Radio Japan
- Japanese Lessons - Re-edited versions of Basic Japanese for You and Brush Up Your Japanese.
[edit] See also
- NHK
- International broadcasting in Japan
- J-Melo
- NHK Newsline, new English language newscast on NHK World TV
[edit] External links
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