FM OSAKA

FM OSAKA Tower Station

FM OSAKA Co., Ltd. (株式会社エフエム大阪, Kabushikigaisha Efu Emu Ōsaka, 85.1) is a radio station in Osaka, Japan. It is an affiliated station of Japan FM Network (JFN).

History of FM OSAKA

On April 1, 1970, FM OSAKA started broadcasting as the first private FM station (second in FM) in Nakanoshima, Osaka nationwide as the only FM radio station affiliated with Japan FM Network (JFN) in the Kansai region. As it was starting, FM OSAKA had a transmitting station in Mt. Ikoma, but it was moved to Mt. Iimori later on because of the transmission; it flew in, but was pointed out to outside of Osaka. Now, FM OSAKA, FM 802 and NHK FM Broadcasting in Osaka are at the prefecture's level station to assure that Osaka is in the broadcast area. By the way, which transmits a message from the Ikoma mountain range top because FM COCOLO is broadcast in major city Kansai such as Osaka, Sakai, Higashiosaka, Kobe, Amagasaki, Kyoto, Nara and at Kansai International Airport.

In the past, FM OSAKA broadcast from Asahi Shimbun Osaka Headquarters building in Nakanoshima, but it restarted broadcasting from "Minatomachi River Place" in Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku at 1:00 p.m. on July 22, 2002.

Changing letter name of FM OSAKA

• 1970-04-01 - 1993-03-31: FM Osaka
• 1993-04-01 - 2008-03-31: fm osaka
• 2008-04-01 - present: FM OSAKA

Station data

• The head office and a studio / performance place
  • Minatomachi River Place, 3-1, Minatomachi Itchome, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, 556-8510, Japan
• Tokyo branch office
  • JFN Center Building, 1-7, Kojimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan
• Iimoriyama transmitting station
  • 2337, Hokujo, Daito, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  • Call sign： JOBU-FM, JOBU-FCM (visible radio)
  • Frequency:85.1 MHz
  • The output:10 kW
  • A building of a transmitting station and an antenna for transmission of a message are shared with FM802 / NHK Osaka FM broadcast
• A telephone exchange
  • The location: Nomami-Nishiyama, Nose, Toyono District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  • frequency:77.4 MHz
  • the output:10w
• Transport cafe
  • Local, in a part area of whole Osaka and Shiga / Kyoto / Hyōgo / Nara / Wakayama / Tokushima / Kagawa / Okayama, can receive a part of Mie / Hiroshima. But it is originally the local broadcasting station which assumes Osaka a broadcast area for.

In Keihanshin district area and Nara, there are many places that were able to hear opening of an office from the first.

Other FM Stations in Osaka

• FM802 (Japan FM League)
• FM Cocolo (Megalopolis Radio Network)
• NHK FM Osaka (NHK)

See also

• List of radio stations in Japan
• aiko - one of FM OSAKA's disc jockeys, started as a DJ before her singing career.

External links

• FM OSAKA (Japanese)