Television in Japan - Knowledge (XXG)

409:(NTV) obtained the broadcasting license, preceding NHK by a few months. The latter began its regular television programming on February 1, 1953, broadcasting for approximately seven hours from 2 to 8:45 in the evening; On August 28 of the same year, Nippon Television, the first commercial television, also became operational. The two broadcasters immediately entered into competition by offering viewers schedules with different styles and contents: if NHK insisted on culturally elevated programs suitable for the highest social classes, NTV aimed more decisively at the masses. Initially the high cost of the receivers slowed down their diffusion, when at the end of March 1954 there were only 17,000 subscribers compared to more than eleven million radio listeners. To overcome this problem, televisions were installed in city centres, in train stations and in parks, attracting large numbers of people and helping to spread television culture in the country. 1927: 413: 4090:

not expect enough viewers if they were run earlier. Some commercial stations sign off between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. every night; however, most stations affiliated with NNS or JNN broadcast 24 hours a day, with the sign off window replaced by a simulcast of their networks' news channel during the overnight hours. Other stations do filler programming to fill time before the start of early morning news. Commercial stations sometimes sign off on Sunday late nights or other days for technical maintenance. NHK is required to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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gave way to the production of weapons, ammunition and other products for war use. Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai itself, which until then had maintained a certain independence from the government, with the increase in military control over the institutions ended up becoming a simple propaganda weapon of the State. The same Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, which until then had maintained a certain independence from the government, with the increase in military control over the institutions it ended up becoming a simple propaganda weapon of the State.

177: 802:. GAlready in 2008, NHK inaugurated its subscription service NHK On Demand (now known as NHK+) for the online viewing of programs that were previously shown on terrestrial television. In January 2014, Nippon TV launched a free service that allowed viewers to watch programs online up to a week after the original air date. TBS then followed with the launch of a similar service in October 2014. In 2015, to counter the entry of 726: 314:, and the STRL was put in charge of the event's television project. Takayanagi himself and other leading engineers of the time took part in the program and, although the Olympics were officially canceled in July 1938, television research continued, fueled by the zeal of those involved in the project. On May 13, 1939 an experimental television signal was broadcast from the STRL antenna at the new Broadcasting Hall in 9006: 7879: 503: 570:

units were sold in the year in which color broadcasts began. Demand grew, however, as prices fell and the production volume increased: from 4,000 units in the two-year period 1962-1963 it went to 1.28 million in 1967 and over 6.4 million in 1970. In November 1975, the number of television sets owned by the general population stood at approximately 46 million, of which 32 million were color televisions.

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are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedies, detective stories, horror, and many others. With a theme, there may be a one-episode drama, or two nights, that may be aired on special occasions,

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television standard, chosen for its ability to make color content available even for owners of a black and white television set. Color programming initially focused on foreign films, time-delayed sporting events, and short educational programs, due to the inadequacy of television stations' equipment.

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in 1959, contributed to the rapid popularization of television as a new medium of mass communication. The number of black and white televisions sold exceeded 2 million by the end of the 1950s. However, it took longer for the new color devices to emerge, mainly due to the high prices, and only 1,200

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removed all government and military control over the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai. In 1950, following a reform of the Japanese broadcasting system, it became an independent company supported by the licence fee paid by listeners and at the same time the market for commercial broadcasting was liberalised. On 1

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in history, broadcast live in four episodes over three nights) saw the light, laying the foundations for the development of the television and electronics industry after the Second World War. During the conflict, however, research on television equipment was suspended and electrotechnical companies

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and programs focusing on older age groups, which run until 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Stations run their late night news mostly at the 11:00 p.m. hour, and around midnight sports news programs run which target working ages. After these, programs for mature audiences run as well as anime that do

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By the late 1960s, 30 million households owned a television set, commercial TV had 500 transmitters and NHK, 1000. With the early introduction of color television, on the other hand, only a small amount in 1967 afforded such a set, estimated at 80,000-90,000 - aiming for a 100,000 target by spring

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As of 1995, Japan's eleven cable-only channels were carried through communication satellites. The most successful channel out of the eleven channels had less than 30,000 subscribers, far fewer than Wowow's 1.6 million subscribers. Programming was mostly limited to sports, news and old movies. The

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None of the foreign programs air on terrestrial television during prime time, even rare outside the prime time hours; instead, locally produced programs dominate the slot, favored by the public. The broadcasters have control over production companies, hence production companies often work with a

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system that ended up scoring much higher in subjective tests than NTSC's previously dubbed "HDTV". This new system, NHK Color, created in 1972, included 1,125 lines, a 5:3 aspect ratio and 60 Hz refresh rate. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), headed by Charles

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In the 1980s, the large-scale diffusion of television sets, which had now become universal objects in Japanese homes, also began to have a certain impact on a social level, contributing to loosening family ties and consequently making family members more independent from each other. This also

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or also satellite broadcasts. Households on welfare may be excused from the license fee. In any case, there is no authority to impose sanctions or fines in the event of non-payment; people may (and many do) throw away the bills and turn away the occasional bill collector, without consequence.

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Following the lifting of legal controls by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, six new cable channels launched on Japan's two communication satellites in mid-1992. Japanese law required new channels to receive half of the revenue from subscribers who received the scrambled signals.

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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

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Ginsburg, became the testing and study authority for HDTV technology in the international theater. SMPTE would test HDTV systems from different companies from every conceivable perspective, but the problem of combining the different formats plagued the technology for many years.

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The large-scale diffusion of the Internet has led to the formation of a generation gap in which older people spend more time in front of a television compared to younger people, who spend more time online rather than with any other type of media. Especially among teenagers,

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in 1959, the number of sets had increased to 12 million. Local television stations appeared successively on the VHF band, paving way to the first networks, in which a syndication exchange between the five oldest KRT-affiliated stations of the time led to the creation of the

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affected the television schedule, from which in a few years the generalist programs designed to entertain the whole family disappeared, replaced by specific programs based on age groups, in addition to programs designed for a mature audience in the late evening hours.

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The experiments continued until the end of the decade. Existing equipment was improved and new lighting systems were created along with smaller, lighter cameras to capture moving images. An all-electronic system was adopted in the 1930s using a domestically developed

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The total digitalization of television in Japan radically changed the traditional radio broadcasting model, leading the main private broadcasters, satellite platforms and telecommunications companies to offer their programs via paid services on the

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The Japan Cable Television Engineering Association (JCTEA) is the umbrella organisation representing 600 member companies involved in research, designing, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of cable television facilities in Japan.

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in 1964. Precisely the economic well-being after the Second World War and the lowering of television prices were among the determining factors in the diffusion of television at a national level, which led it to quickly become one of the

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While TV programs vary from station to station, some generalizations can be made. Most commercial television stations sign on between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. every morning. Early morning hours are dominated by

592:(NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) began conducting research to "unlock the fundamental mechanism of video and sound interactions with the five human senses" in 1964, after the Tokyo Olympics. NHK set out to create an 349:

to continue research on his own end, while the NHK resumed theirs in November. Takayanagi played a central role in jointly developing television broadcasting technology and television receivers with NHK, Sharp, and Toshiba.

453:, although each commercial station had installed its own transmitting antennas, the government launched a proposal to build a single large tower capable of transmitting the signal throughout the region. In 1958 the 432:

signed on, joining the existing NTV. By the end of 1956, NHK had perfected its television broadcasting network, reaching, in addition to Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka (these last two started broadcasting in 1954), also

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are examples of anime. While many popular series air during the daytime and evening hours, most air only at night from 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. These series usually make profits primarily through BD

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have been offering their customers the opportunity to use TV-related services via the Internet since the early 2000s, but it was thanks to the launch of the acTVila portal in 2007 by a consortium formed by

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started its services in December 1997. With DirecTV retiring from the Japanese market in March 2000, SKY PerfectTV! emerges as one of Japan's largest pay-TV platforms, competing with WOWOW, cable company

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The medium-scale Broadcasting Satellite for Experimental Purposes (BSE) was planned by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MOPT) and developed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (

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was poorly developed in Japan than it had been, for example, in the United States. In the 1980s, NHK thus developed the analog Hi-Vision system with 1125 lines, 60 frames per second and an initial

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generally has its own opening and ending image sequence and song, recordings of which are often sold. A six-month period of 26 episodes is also used for subdivision in some television series.

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technology on an experimental basis. In Japan, research into high definition had begun in the sixties, when Takashi Fujio, director of STRL, believed that television technology, though still

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and TV shows start, and end around 7:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. Evening news programs air as early as before 4:00 p.m. or before 5:00 p.m. and end at 7:00 p.m., when the "

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continue in an almost pristine format from the same variety shows of years before. The only major changes have been the increasing disappearance of live backup music since the 1980s.

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receiver. In 1927, he increased the television resolution to 100 lines, which was unrivaled until 1931. In 1928, he was the first to transmit human faces in half-tones on television.

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compression system. However, it took several years before this technology was adopted globally, mainly due to incompatibility with the standards used in the United States and

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In 1948 NHK had resumed its research program but since then no great progress had been made in the effective provision of the service to the public. On May 26, 1951, the

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For a brief period in the aftermath of Japan's surrender, the occupied government banned television research in 1945, but was lifted in July 1946. Takayanagi joined the

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Advertisers sponsor programs rather than buying advertising time during commercial breaks. The advertisers have major power over prime time programs, aiming to the

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into the Japanese market, the main commercial networks based in Tokyo struck a deal by jointly launching the free TVer website. In the IPTV sector the Japanese

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also turned his interest to television studies after having learned about the new technology in a French magazine. He developed a system similar to that of

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was in fact insufficient to adequately cover the Kantō area with the digital terrestrial signal. For this reason, another 634m high tower was built, the

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requested the government's authorization to finally start television broadcasts in the country and on October 2 of the same year the private broadcaster

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Only one percent of Japanese households were able to receive cable TV in 1992. This posed issues to the launch of new specialized cable networks.

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1968, accounting to less than 1% of the total number of sets at the time. Its programming in the 1960s was seen as "primitive" for US standards.

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At the time of the first regular broadcasts in 1953, there were only 3,000 television sets. The year following the royal wedding of Crown Prince

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such as in 2007 where they had a drama produced as a sixty-year anniversary from the end of the World War II, with a theme of the atomic bomb.

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for the live television broadcast. The latter, however, was not the first satellite to have transmitted a television program across the

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lack of programming and the downfall in the Japanese film industry were primary obstacles for the development of cable networks.

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In 1973, the Space Activities Commission launched the experimental satellite transmission program, entrusting its development to

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function was launched, a very popular service that allowed users to watch TV on their mobile phones via digital terrestrial.

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in December 1926. In 1928 his research took a further breakthrough, when he managed to reproduce an image of a person with a

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In the meantime, the last and smallest of the main Japanese commercial broadcasters also appeared on the television scene,

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and information programs that target the same age group start. On some stations at 4:00 p.m., the young kid-oriented

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system. A variety of productions such as films, variety shows, musical shows and TV dramas (such as the family comedy

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to scan the subject and generate electrical signals. But unlike Baird, Takayanagi took the important step of using a

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broadcasting using BS-2b in June 1989. Some Japanese producers of home electronic consumer devices began to deliver

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metropolitan areas. It has been reported that 27 million HD receivers had been sold in Japan as of October 2007.

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Toho is the largest single shareholder in Fuji TV's parent company Fuji Media Holdings; its parent company, the

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Technology and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy

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The Japanese government is studying the implementation of some improvements on the standard as suggested by

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Currently, there are several national and regional cable television providers in Japan, the largest being

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satellite transmitted the first program from the USA to Japan in November 1963, on the occasion of the

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An estimated two million viewers tuned to NHK's two-channel satellite television broadcasts in 1992.

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with thermal electron emission. Television tests were conducted in 1926 using a combined mechanical

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In 1996, the total number of households that received satellite broadcasting exceeded 10 million.

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The satellite BS-2a was launched in preparation for the start of full scale 2-channel broadcasts.

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Since the old MUSE system was not compatible with the new digital standards, Japan developed the

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New technologies, UHF, the age of satellite television and the rise of high-definition television

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counterpart and combined them with American actors who acted out entirely original story lines.

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was born in May 1998 from the merger of PerfecTV and JSkyB, whereas the Japanese subsidiary of

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Events of such magnitude and general interest, as well as the wedding of the then crown prince

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digital service uses BSAT satellites, while other systems of digital TV broadcasting such as

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single TV station and the TV station itself owns the copyright to the completed program.

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in Osaka. Subsequently, several other stations obtained broadcasting rights (among them

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and management to NHK. Five years later, the first Japanese satellite was launched for

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Reproduction of a street television set in the 1950s at the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum

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In 1989, NHK finally began satellite transmissions, simultaneously launching the new

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by having "familiar, tested" celebrities hosting the programs, regardless of genre.

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services started being bundled to cable television subscriptions in the late 1990s.

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started experimental broadcasting of TV program using BS-2a satellite in May 1984.

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The modern two satellite systems in use in Japan are BSAT and JCSAT; the modern

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Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer

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The English acronym NHK was only used after the end of the Second World War.

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Notice broadcast on television stations across Japan after the cessation of

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was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with

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The Japanese have sometimes subdivided television series and dramas into

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broadcast anime regularly. Smaller regional stations broadcast anime on

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started a pay TV service while BS-3 communication satellite was in use.

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Changes to the television penetration rate in Japan from 1957 to 2015

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Japan's Commercial Broadcasting Network : The Trajectory of JNN

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were thus merged in 1926 into a single national organization called

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The Chunichi Shimbun Company owns stakes in most JAITS stations.

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and even home acoustic systems equipped with built-in satellite

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of 40 or 60 centimeters in diameter, suitable for domestic use.

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contests, and other acts. Japanese television programs such as

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The first UHF television station to go on air in Japan was the

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system. In 1926, he demonstrated a CRT television with 40-line

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