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RKB Mainichi Broadcasting
Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation
Native name
Rkb+ 毎日放送株式会社
Rkb+ Mainichihōsō kabushikigaisha
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryTelevision network
FoundedJune 29, 1951; 72 years ago (1951-06-29) as Radio Kyushu Broadcasting
August 1, 1958; 65 years ago (1958-08-01) as RKB Mainichi Broadcasting
Headquarters2-3-8 Momochihama, Sawaraku,
Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
,
Japan
Key people
Ryoji Inoue (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Holdings)
Izumi Sato (President and Representative Director; Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting)
ParentRkb+ Mainichi Holdings Corporation
Websiterkb.jp
Footnotes / references
Data from its Corporate Profile
JOFR-DTV
  • Fukuoka, Saga
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsJapan News Network
Ownership
OwnerRkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Co, Inc.
History
FoundedJune 29, 1951
First air date
March 1, 1958
Former call signs
JOFR-TV (1958–2011)
Former channel number(s)
4 (analog VHF, 1958–2011)
Nippon News Network (secondary, 1964-1969)
Call sign meaning
JO Fukuoka Radio
or
FouR (channel number)
Technical information
Licensing authority
MIC
Transmitter coordinates33°35′34.285″N 130°21′3.161″E / 33.59285694°N 130.35087806°E / 33.59285694; 130.35087806
Links
Websitehttp://rkb.jp/

Rkb+ Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation (Rkb+ 毎日放送株式会社, RKB mainichi hoso kabushiki gaisha) (stylized as +rkb) is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network. It is owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Mainichi Shimbun and the Aso Group.

The initials RKB stand for Radio Kyushu Broadcasting (ラジオ九州放送, rajio kyushu hoso), the station's former name.[1][2]

History

In 1950, following the enactment of the Radio Law, Mainichi Shimbun wanted to establish three radio stations (Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka). The Fukuoka station was named Radio Kyushu. A license for JOFR was issued on April 21, 1951 and the company was formally established on June 29. On December 1, Radio Kyushu begins its operations.

RKB started television broadcasts on March 1, 1958. At the same time, the station had to merge with Mainichi Seibu Television (tentative calls JOGX-TV, later reassigned in 2013 after CBC TV spun-off). Consequently the planned JOGX was opened as the Kitakyushu satellite station (JOFO-TV).

Station

Radio

TV (Analog)

TV (Digital)

Program

Anime

TV

Other TV stations in Fukuoka

References

  1. ^ Gabriella Lukács (15 July 2010). Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan. Duke University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-8223-9323-8.
  2. ^ 放送十年 : RKB每日社史 [10 Years of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting] (in Japanese). Japan: RKB Mainichi Broadcasting. 1962. OCLC 881300518.


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