NHK

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Japan Broadcasting Corporation

NHK Broadcasting Center (headquarters)
Trade name	NHK
Native name	日本放送協会
Romanized name	Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai
Formerly	Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya Broadcasting Station (1925–1926)
Company type	Statutory corporation chartered under the Broadcasting Act of 1950
Industry	Broadcast radio, television and online
Predecessor	Tokyo Broadcasting Station
Founded	August 6, 1926; 97 years ago (1926-08-06) (original incarnation) June 1, 1950; 74 years ago (1950-06-01) (current incarnation)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Nobuo Inaba (president) Tatsuhiko Inoue (executive vice president)
Owner	Government of Japan
Number of employees	10,333 (2019)
Subsidiaries	NHK Media Holdings Japan International Broadcasting NHK Publishing NHK Technologies NHK Culture Center
Website	nhk.or.jp
Footnotes / references [1]

The Japan Broadcasting Corporation^[2] (Japanese: 日本放送協会, Hepburn: Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai), also known by its romanized initialism NHK,^[a] is a Japanese public broadcaster.^[3][4] It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.

NHK operates two terrestrial television channels (NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV), three satellite television channels (NHK BS; as well as two ultra-high-definition television channels, NHK BS Premium 4K and NHK BS8K), and three radio networks (NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2, and NHK FM).

NHK also provides an international broadcasting service, known as NHK World-Japan. NHK World-Japan is composed of NHK World TV, NHK World Premium, and the shortwave radio service Radio Japan (RJ). World Radio Japan also makes some of its programs available on the Internet.

NHK was the first broadcaster in the world to broadcast in high-definition (using multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding, also known as Hi-Vision) and in 8K.^[5]

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