NHK Radio 1
Type | News, Speech, Drama, local programming |
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Country | Japan |
First air date | July 12, 1925 |
Broadcast area | Japan |
Owner | NHK |
594 kHz MW (JOAK, Tokyo) | |
Webcast | NHK Net Radio |
Official website | NHK.or.jp/r1/ |
NHK Radio 1 (NHKラジオ第1放送, NHK Rajio Dai-ichi Hōsō) is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of news, current affairs, and information programming is broadly similar to BBC Radio 4, CBC Radio One, and Deutschlandfunk. NHK Radio 1 is available mainly on AM. The callsign is JOAK in Tokyo. During World War 2 it often broadcast official announcements.