Launched July 23, 2006 Broadcast area Worldwide | Country Japan Owned by NHK | |
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Picture format 16:9/4:3 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV) Slogan Japan, Closer To You (日本をいつもどこでも) Language Japanese, English (certain programmes only) TV shows News Watch 9, NHK News 7, Kōhaku Uta Gassen, Utacon, AKB48 Show! | ||
NHK World Premium is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, Press TV, DD News, Zee News, DW-TV, France 24, Russia Today and India Today broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world.
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NHK World Premium Television broadcast a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese worldwide via satellite as a subscription service. In Europe this service is broadcast under the name JSTV and in the US it is known as TV Japan. The programmes generally don't carry English subtitles while a few programmes especially news have bilingual audio.
Programmes
Internet service
NHK World Premium programs and contents are available online: