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CEO Shinji Takeda (2014–)		Founded 1998

Parent organization Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings TV shows Seiren, Urara Meirocho, Shōnen Maid, Tokyo Girl, This Art Club Has a Problem!

BS-TBS, Incorporated (株式会社ビーエス・ティービーエス, Kabushiki-Gaisha Bīesu-Tībīesu) is a satellite broadcasting station headquartered in Asakaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its channel name is BS-TBS (formerly, BS-i). It is a member television station of Japan News Network.

Channels

Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.

Radio: BS-i had been assigned 461ch, 462ch, and was closed on September 30, 2005. - TBS Radio & Communications had been produced.

Data: BS-TBS is assigned BS766ch, BS768ch, but BS768ch is not being used now.

History

November, 1998 - Japan Digital Communications, Incorporated (株式会社ジャパン・デジタル・コミュニケーションズ, Kabushiki-Gaisha Japan Dejitaru Komyunikēshonzu) founded.

June, 2000 - JDC was renamed BS-i, Incorporated (株式会社ビーエス・アイ, Kabushiki-Gaisha Bīesu-Ai).

December 1, 2000 - BS-i started broadcasting.

July, 2004 - BS-i moved its headquarters from TBS Hoso Kaikan to TBS Broadcast Center 15th fl.

September 30, 2005 - BS-i closed satellite radio broadcasting.

April 1, 2009 - BS-i, Incorporated was renamed to its current name BS-TBS, Incorporated.

Programs

General programs

A number of programs which TBS broadcast are broadcast also on BS-TBS.

Anime programs

Anime produced by BS-TBS are popular among anime fans because the regulation of expression on satellite broadcasting is looser than on terrestrial broadcasting.

On TBS, in order to adjust size, most 16:9 anime is cropped on the left and right. They are broadcast on BS-TBS in their original form.

These are anime programs exclusively broadcast on BS-TBS:

Air

Cyber Team in Akihabara

Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma

He Is My Master

Kanon

Little Snow Fairy Sugar

Mahoromatic

Popotan

This Ugly and Beautiful World

Yumeria