Television Kanagawa

Television Kanagawa


Trade name	Television Kanagawa Inc.
Native name	株式会社テレビ神奈川
Romanized name	Kabushikigaisha Terebikanagawa
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Television broadcasting
Founded	April 20, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-04-20)
Headquarters	2-23 Otamachi, Naka-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan
Key people	Yoshikazu Kumagai (President)
Website	www.tvk-yokohama.com
Footnotes / references Data from its Corporate Profile

Television station in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

JOKM-DTV
Kanagawa Prefecture Japan
City	Yokohama
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 3
Branding	tvk
Programming
Affiliations	Independent (JAITS)
Ownership
Owner	Television Kanagawa, Inc.
History
Founded	April 20, 1971
First air date	April 1, 1972; 52 years ago (1972-04-01)
Former channel number(s)	42 (analog UHF, 1972–2011)
Call sign meaning	JO Kanagawa Media
Technical information
Licensing authority	MIC
ERP	10 kW (Analog) 1 kW (Digital)
Links
Website	http://www.tvk-yokohama.com

TV Kanagawa (テレビ神奈川, Terebi Kanagawa) (tvk for short) is an independent television station in Japan serving Kanagawa Prefecture and parts of the Greater Tokyo Area with favorable reception. The station was founded on April 20, 1971 and began broadcasting on April 1, 1972. Its call sign is JOKM-DTV (JOKM-TV during the analog broadcasting period) and occupies the UHF channel 18 on the airwaves.

The station is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations.

History

Although there were already five main broadcasters in the Kanto region in the late 1960s, they actually lacked information on what was happening outside the Tokyo Prefecture. Therefore, prefectures in the Kanto region became involved in opening TV stations covering solely their prefectures.^[1]^: 6In 1969, the Ministry of Posts would issue UHF TV licenses for the six Kanto prefectures. Immediately, 12 companies in Kanagawa Prefecture were interested for operating a TV station.^[1]^: 7

Programming

As an independent station, tvk's programming consists mostly of local information, alternative music (some of whose musicians continue to appear on tvk, even after mainstream success), local sports, educational programmes, and anime.

Ito Masanori no Rock City

A Television Kanagawa camera filming an on location shoot, 2023

References

^ ^a ^b テレビ神奈川35年史 [35 Years of TVK] (in Japanese). Television Kanagawa. 2007. OCLC 857921862.

External links

(in Japanese) Company website

Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations

Kantō

Tokai

Kansai

Broadcast television in Kantō region

NHK

General	NHK Broadcasting Center (Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa) 1 Maebashi (Gunma) 1 Utsunomiya (Tochigi) 1 Mito (Ibaraki) 1
Educational	Kanto Region - 2

Regional

Commercial	Nippon TV 4 TV Asahi 5 TBS Television 6 TV Tokyo 7 Fuji TV 8
Former	Open University 12¹

Prefectural

JAITS	Tokyo MX 9 TV Kanagawa 3 TV Saitama 3 Chiba TV 3 Gunma TV 3 Tochigi TV 3

Notes:

■ Part of Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System
■ Part of All-Nippon News Network
■ Part of Japan News Network
■ Part of TX Network
■ Part of Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System
■ Part of Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations

¹Closed since October 2018 alongside its radio operations.^[1] Currently available on satellite TV only

^ "放送大学の地上波放送が9月30日終了。BS完全移行でHD/SD 2ch同時放送" [Terrestrial broadcasting of the Open University of Japan will end on September 30, 2018, with the full transition to satellite broadcasting.]. AV Watch (in Japanese). 2018-03-02. Retrieved 2021-10-07.