NHK developed an experimental teletext system along similar lines, called CIBS (" Character Information Broadcasting Station ").

In Japan, NHK introduced color television, using a variation of the NTSC system ( called NTSC-J ), on September 10, 1960, making it the first country in Asia to introduce color television.

Likewise, when NHK broadcasts a language instruction program for Korean, the language is referred to as hangurugo (; " hangul language "); although it's technically incorrect since hangul itself is a writing system, not a language.

In 1925, the Tokyo Broadcasting Company ( predecessor to the NHK, Japan's public broadcasting system ) started radio broadcasts.

In 1991, Televisa, with help from Japanese television network NHK, began its first broadcast in HDTV, using the Japanese MUSE system.

The format in which the document was printed was the same as that of " communication e-mails " from the 5300 system terminals used for printing NHK stories, and the document also contained a term meaning " private broadcasters ",, which was only likely to have been used by NHK.

The Sony HDVS system was presented at an international meeting of television engineers in Algiers, April 1981 and Japan's NHK presented its analog HDTV system at a Swiss conference in 1983.

The FCC process, led by the Advanced Television Systems Committee ( ATSC ) adopted a range of standards from interlaced 1, 080-line video ( a technical descendant of the original analog NHK 1125 / 30 Hz system ) with a maximum frame rate of 30 Hz, and 720-line video, progressively scanned, with a maximum frame rate of 60 Hz.

It was 4: 20 a. m. local time and NHK showed the construction of the Tokyo Subway system.

There is a system of educational television and radio, and almost all elementary schools use programs prepared by the School Education Division of Japan's ex Broadcasting Corporation ( Nippon Hoso Kyokai -- NHK )( 日本放送協会 ).

Commercial digital recording was pioneered in Japan by NHK and Nippon Columbia, also known as Denon, in the 1960s.

It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.

Until the 1940s, NHK was a national radio broadcasting monopoly.

NHK was founded in 1926, modelled on the BBC of the United Kingdom.

NHK BS Hi-Vision analogue TV was discontinued in September 2007, and a year later NHK World TV was available Free-To-Air over the Astra 19. 2 ° E ( Astra 1L ) in Europe.

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 NHK was criticised for underplaying the

The NHK Symphony Orchestra, financially sponsored by NHK, was formerly ( until 1951 ) the Japanese Symphony Orchestra.

It resumed in 1988, until 2004, when a local adaptation was announced, which NHK refused to be involved in.

The first, " Gift ", released on July 30, 2008, was used as the official theme song to the 2008 Beijing Olympics coverage on NHK.

The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup that officially was recorded and transmitted in HDTV by the Italian broadcaster RAI in association with the Japanese NHK broadcaster.

Kitano confirmed in a video interview that he was forbidden to access the NHK studios for five years for having exposed his body during a show when it was totally forbidden.

Filmed in north-west China and Inner Mongolia, the show was produced by Nippon Television ( NTV ) and International Television Films in association with NHK, and broadcasted from 1978 to 1980 on Nippon Television.

In 1941, NHK opened a training program to the public to prepare actors to specialize in radio dramas. This was called the.

Yūichi Nagashima was an actor in the role of " Chō ", the main character in NHK Educational TV's.

The news was compiled by NHK Nisei staffers Kenkichi Oki and George Mitsushio, but the POWs tried to subvert the propaganda wherever possible by reading it with a joking tone or by rushing through objectionable items.

Fearing that their efforts to undermine the propaganda value of the program would be exposed by the addition of an outsider, the POWs were in a quandary until Cousens requested that Iva Toguri D ' Aquino, an NHK typist who had befriended the POWs and was outspokenly pro-American in her views, be conscripted as the female announcer instead one of the regular female staffers.

Domokun, the unique-looking and widely recognized NHK mascot, was introduced in 1998 and quickly took on a life of its own, appearing in Internet memes and fan art around the world.

As the abbreviation Jap is pronounced similarly as the chief inspector's name, he was renamed in the Japanese anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple ( NHK, 2004 ).

In 2005, he was voted " Best Commentator " for the NHK channel, over Ishida Yoshio.

Dark Horse, working with Big Tent Entertainment and the NHK broadcasting corporation, brought Domo-kun to the United States with a series of products ranging from Qee figurines to journals and stationery sets.

At the age of eighteen, Shlomo Mintz added the role of conductor to his artistic endeavours and has since conducted acclaimed orchestras worldwide, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( United Kingdom ), the NHK Symphony Orchestra ( Japan ) and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

* The high-power platform from which more than a dozen of international broadcasters and programmers deliver their content throughout the Americas, including the United Kingdom's BBC ; Germany's Deutsche Welle ; Japan's NHK ; Venezuela's Cisneros ; Portugal's RTP ; and the United States ' Eternal Word Television Network, ESPN and HBO Olé Partners.

Unlike their counterparts in the United States, however, Japanese newscasters on NHK and commercial stations usually confine themselves to relating events and did not offer opinions or analysis.

On April 1, 1998, NHK World Television started broadcasting.

NHK World Premium Television broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese worldwide via satellite as a subscription service.

The show was originally on the Global Television Network and can currently be seen on Teletoon in Canada, RTÉ One in Ireland ( soon on RTE Two ), MTV3 and Subtv in Finland, NHK in Japan, Canal FOX in Latin America, vtm in Belgium, MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore, GMA Network in the Philippines, Telefé in Argentina, TV2 in New Zealand, ProSieben in Germany, TVN7 in Poland, and Go!

Their software is used by many broadcasters and publishing houses, including: Television New Zealand, CNEB NEWS, Aljazeera, CNN, CBS, Fox, BBC, BSkyB, Sky Italia, Mediaset, ITN ,, N24, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, SVT, TV Today, CCTV, NHK, antena3, GMA, The Globe and Mail, The Telegraph, Todo Noticias, 24 horas TVN Chile, The Sun ( newspaper ), News of the World and Die Welt Online ,.

Domo-Kun no Fushigi Terebi ( Japanese: どーもくんの不思議てれび, Domo-kun's Mysterious Television ) is a video game for the Game Boy Advance featuring Domo-kun, of NHK television network.

* 1996: A Son of the Good Earth ( NHK Television series )

In 2005 a CBC programme based on a documentary originally produced in Japan by NHK Television and was updated by the Discovery Times Channel, was released called Media Jihad-As-Sahab Foundation which traces the origins of As-Sahab.

Japan's NHK is a non-commercial network similar to the BBC, funded by a television license fee, and has more editorial independence over news and current affairs than broadcasters like India's state-run Doordarshan or China's China Central Television ( CCTV ).

Higashi Ward has the headquarters of Tōkai Television Broadcasting as well as the NHK Nagoya Broadcasting Station.