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Analog terrestrial television broadcasts in Japan were scheduled to end on July 24, 2011, as per the current Japanese broadcasting law. However, the switch-over was delayed in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures, due to a desire to reduce the inconvenience of those affected most by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent ...
In Japan, every broadcasting company (except NHK and Radio Nikkei) which performs terrestrial television broadcasts has an appointed broadcast region. In Article 2 of the Japanese Broadcasting Law ( 放送法 ), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications defines the fixed zone where the broadcast of the same program for every ...
Television censorship is the censorship of television content, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of televisions in their entirety. Television censorship typically occurs as a result of political or moral objections to a television's content; controversial content subject to censorship include the ...
The switchover itself took place between 24 July 2011 and 31 March 2012, and involved television stations across all five major commercial networks, the entire network of NHK's broadcast transmitters, and television stations that are part of the JAITS group. Japan was the first country in eastern Asia to cease broadcasting television signals in ...
Internet censorship in Japan generally focuses on pornography and controversial political material especially in regards to Japanese history during the Empire of Japan. [25] In 2022, Japan introduced a law to revise its Penal Code that would mandate a jail time for up to a year and a larger fine for making "online insults". [26]
In 1978 an experimental broadcast satellite with two color television channels was launched. Operational satellites for television use were launched between 1984 and 1990. Television viewing spread so rapidly that, by 1987, 99 percent of Japan's households had color television sets and the average family had its set on at least five hours a day.
The corporation was established on October 2, 1967, as the Okinawa Broadcasting Corporation (沖縄放送協会, Okinawa Hoso Kyokai or OHK). [2] Television broadcasts started on December 22, 1968 (OHK only operated by television, never by radio) under the callsign KSGB-TV, broadcasting on VHF channel 2 in the Japanese standard. On January 1 ...
On November 1, 1958, Shizuoka Broadcasting System began broadcasting television programs and was the 12th private television station overall in Japan. [1]: 46 The following year, Shizuoka Broadcasting joined the JNN network and was able to significantly reduce the cost of delivering news images.