NHK World Premium

NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to worldwide national channels such as CCTV-4, KBS World, TV5Monde, TVE Internacional, RTP Internacional, TV Chile, Rai Italia or RTR-Planeta, and broadcast through subscription TV providers around the world.

NHK World Premium
CountryJapan
Broadcast areaLaunch - Now: Asia Pacific, Africa (except North Africa until September 2023), Latin America
From October 2023: Middle East, North Africa, CIS, Europe, United Kingdom
HeadquartersNHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Programming
Language(s)Japanese (Main audio) English (available on bilingual programs)
Picture format16:9 480i (SDTV)
16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
OwnerNHK World-Japan
(NHK World TV)
Sister channelsNHK General TV
NHK Educational TV
NHK BS 1
NHK BS Premium
NHK BS4K
NHK BS8K
NHK World TV
History
Launched1 April 1998
Links
Websitewww.nhkworldpremium.com

The purpose of NHK World Premium is to make original, general television content produced by NHK available to an international audience. It provides a mixture of news, sports and entertainment shows in Japanese language, all of which are simulcast or previously shown on NHK's domestic TV networks in Japan (NHK G, NHK E, NHK BS 1, NHK BS Premium, NHK BS4K, and NHK BS8K).

The service is marketed as a pay satellite or cable TV channel with that name Across Asia Pacific, Africa (Except North Africa Arabic Speaking Countries) & Latin America, except for in Europe, North Africa and North America. In Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the service is broadcast under the brand name JSTV, and in the US and Canada, it is known as TV Japan. Unlike the regular NHK World Premium service, both JSTV and TV Japan offer some additional programming from other major Japanese TV broadcasters such as TV Tokyo or Fuji TV among others, in addition to Mostly NHK's Original shows. Contents generally do not carry English subtitles or dubbing, while a few of them, especially news, have bilingual audio (a feature kept from their original, domestic broadcast in Japan, where it is offered as well for Newscast Only).

Programmes

Internet service

NHK World Premium programs and contents are available online but for the linear channel, which mostly aired NHK titles including live events, were available on selected countries, including Asian countries outside Japan. The European service JSTV also offers an Internet broadcast of NHK World Premium through their JSTV 2 channel, which is a simulcast of NHK World Premium.[1]

See also

References
  1. https://jstv.uk/
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