Tokyo Broadcasting System

This article is about the holding company. For the radio station in Kanto region, see TBS Radio & Communications. For the television station, see Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. For other uses, see TBS (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Turner Broadcasting System.
Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.
株式会社東京放送ホールディングス
Kabushiki gaisha
Traded as TYO: 9401
Industry Information, Communication
Founded Tokyo, Japan (May 17, 1951)
Headquarters TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Services Stockholding
Revenue Decrease¥342,754 million (consolidated, March 2011)
Increase¥7,705 million (consolidated, March 2011)
Increase¥103 million (consolidated, March 2011)
Total assets Decrease¥593,023 million (consolidated, March 2011)
Total equity Decrease¥344,658 million (consolidated, March 2011)
Owner see list
Subsidiaries see TBS Group
Website http://www.tbs.co.jp/eng/
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
株式会社TBSテレビ
Kabushiki gaisha
Industry Information, Communication
Founded Tokyo, Japan (March 21, 2000)
Headquarters TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Services Broadcasting, TV program production, etc.
Parent Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.
JORX-(D)TV
Kantō Region, Japan
Branding TBS Television (TBSテレビ TBS Terebi)
Slogan With heart, TBS. (2011-present)
Channels Analog: Channel 6 (VHF)
Digital: Channel 22 (UHF - LCN 6)
Translators

Niijima, Tokyo
Analog: Channel 56
Mito, Ibaraki
Analog: Channel 40
Digital: Channel 15
Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Analog: Channel 55
Digital: Channel 15
Maebashi, Gunma
Analog: Channel 56
Digital: Channel 43
Kiryū, Gunma
Analog: Channel 55
Chichibu, Saitama
Analog: Channel 18
Narita, Chiba
Analog: Channel 55
Tateyama, Chiba
Analog: Channel 56
Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 56
Yokosuka-Kurihama, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 39
Hiratsuka, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 37
Digital: Channel 22

Odawara, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 56
Affiliations JNN
Owner Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
First air date April 1955
Sister station(s) BS-TBS
TBS Channel
TBS News Bird
TBS Radio
Former callsigns JOKR-TV (1955-2001) (Kabushiki Gaisha Radio Tokyo)
Transmitter coordinates 35°39′31″N 139°44′44″E / 35.65861°N 139.74556°E
TBS Broadcasting Center

Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. (株式会社東京放送ホールディングス Kabushiki-gaisha Tōkyō Hōsō Hōrudingusu), TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (株式会社TBSテレビ, abbreviated to TBS) and radio network named TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. (株式会社TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ).

TBS Television, Inc. has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN (Japan Radio Network) which TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. (TBSラジオ) has.

TBS (present TBS Holdings, Inc.) produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast in Indonesia (RCTI, TPI), Germany (DSF), Britain (Challenge), Spain (Cuatro TV), Italy (Italia 1), Finland (JIM), Philippines (GMA Network DZBB-7), India (Pogo TV) and the United States (Spike, under the name MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge). This network is also home to the many Ultraman.

Offices

TBS Group

Holdings
Broadcasting
Real Estate Businesses

History of TBS

Stockholders of TBSHD

  1. Rakuten, Inc. - 19.83%
  2. The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Pension Account-Pension Trust Account held for Dentsu, Inc.) - 4.88%
  3. The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account) - 4.45%
  4. Nippon Life Insurance Company - 4.10%
  5. Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. - 3.23%
  6. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation - 3.01%
  7. Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. - 3.00%
  8. Mitsui & Co., Ltd. - 2.25%
  9. Bic Camera, Inc. - 2.00%
  10. Kodansha, Ltd - 1.98%

Broadcasting

Analog

JORX-TV (former callsign: JOKR-TV) - TBS Television (TBSテレビジョン (former Japanese name: 東京放送))

Islands in Tokyo
  • Niijima - Channel 56
Ibaraki Prefecture
  • Mito - Channel 40
Tochigi Prefecture
  • Utsunomiya - Channel 55
Gunma Prefecture
  • Maebashi - Channel 56
  • Kiryu - Channel 55
Saitama Prefecture
  • Chichibu - Channel 18
Chiba Prefecture
  • Chiba City - Channel 55
  • Urayasu - Channel 56
Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Yokohama-minato - Channel 56
  • Yokosuka-Kurihama - Channel 39
  • Hiratsuka - Channel 37
  • Odawara - Channel 56

Digital

JORX-DTV - TBS Digital Television (TBSデジタルテレビジョン)

Networks

...among others.

Programs

Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.

Anime programming

Violation of the protection of sources

TBS is notoriously known for intentionally violating protection of sources in October 1989. In that month of that year, the Tokyo Broadcasting System taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto regarding his efforts to unveil the deceptive dogmas of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect. However, the network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge, intentionally breaking its protection of sources. Aum officials then pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto was murdered by the members after a few days, on the 3rd of November. This makes TBS indirectly responsible for a homicide of a person who combated the dangerous sect and attempted to bring the attention of the public to the everyday human rights violations taking place within that sect.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Take a ride on the travel food choo-choo". The Japan Times. 2001-09-30. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  2. ↑ "NPB/ TBS sells BayStars to DeNA, pending league approval". Asahi Asia & Japan Watch (Asahi Shimbun). November 5, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2011.

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