is a Japanese radio station operated by the

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broadcaster,

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. Its programming output, which consists of classical music, jazz, rock, Japanese pop music, folk, seven times of news bulletins and talk is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 3 in the

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History

NHK started test FM broadcasts on December 24, 1957 in Tokyo. This was followed by a second station in Osaka on February 20, 1958. The experimental station was based on the

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(the current

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). In 1964, there were now 26 NHK FM stations, covering 70% of the country. Between 1962 and 1965, the following stations opened: *September 17, 1962: Hiroshima, Fukuoka *December 2, 1962: Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Matsuyama, Kumamoto *April 1, 1964: Shizuoka, Okayama, Yamaguchi, Kochi *May 1, 1964: Kitakyushu, Nagasaki *June 1, 1964: Morioka, Akita *June 25, 1964: Asahikawa *July 1, 1964: Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Kanazawa, Toyama, Matsue, Miyazaki, Kagoshima *December 2, 1964: Hakodate, Obihiro, Muroran, Aomori, Yamagata, Tottori *February 5, 1965: Kushiro, Fukui *March 1, 1965: Kofu, Tokushima, Oita *March 22, 1965: Takamatsu, Saga *March 27, 1965: Kitami It wasn't until March 1, 1969 that these broadcasts became regular. Since the beginning, the station had played a wide variety of music genres.

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