(formerly ) is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting

holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own Share ...

. It is the parent company of the

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

network TBS Television and radio network

TBS Radio TBS Radio, Inc. () is a radio station in Tokyo, Japan, the flagship radio station of the Japan Radio Network (JRN). The company was founded by the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS, presently named TBS Holdings, Inc.) on March 21, 2000. TBS Radio ...

. It has a 28-affiliate television network called

Japan News Network The Japan News Network (JNN; ) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TBS Television, owned by TBS Holdings (which is a part of the Mitsui Group '' keiretsu'' and highly cooperating with the '' Mainichi Shimbun'' despite the lac ...

, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called

Japan Radio Network Japan Radio Network (JRN; ) is a Japanese commercial radio network run by TBS Radio in Tokyo, owned by TBS Holdings (which is a part of the major conglomerate Mitsui Group). Established on 2 May 1965, JRN is made up of 34 regional affiliates ...

. TBS produced the game show ''

Takeshi's Castle is a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS). It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who sets up difficult physical challenges that players ...

'' and has also broadcast the ''

Ultra Series The , also known as ''Ultraman'', is a Japanese science fiction media franchise owned and produced by Tsuburaya Productions, which began with the television series ''Ultra Q'' in 1966. The franchise has expanded into many television shows, fil ...

'' programs and '' Sasuke'' (''Ninja Warrior''), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan. TBS is a member of the

Mitsui Group is a Japanese corporate group and ''keiretsu'' that traces its roots to the ''zaibatsu'' groups that were dissolved after World War II. Unlike the ''zaibatsu'' of the pre-war period, there is no controlling company with regulatory power. Inst ...

keiretsu A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings that dominated the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century. In the legal sense, it is a type of business group that is in a loosely organized al ...

'' and highly cooperating with the ''

Mainichi Shimbun The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called , and publishes a bilin ...

'' despite the latter's lack of shareholding.

History

* May 1951 - was founded in

Kasumigaseki Kasumigaseki (霞が関, 霞ヶ関 or 霞ケ関) is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Most government ministries are located in the neighbourhood, making its name a metonym for the Civil service of Japan, Japanese bureaucracy, while Nag ...

Chiyoda, Tokyo , known as Chiyoda City in English,
." ''City of Chiyoda''. Retrieved on December 28, 2008. is a S ...

, Japan. * December 25, 1951 - KRT started radio broadcasting (1130 kHz, 50 kW, until July 1953) from Yurakucho,

Chiyoda, Tokyo , known as Chiyoda City in English,
." ''City of Chiyoda''. Retrieved on December 28, 2008. is a S ...

, and the frequency changed to 950 kHz. * April 1955 - KRT started TV broadcasting (JOKR-TV, Channel 6) from Akasaka-Hitotsukicho,

Minato, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. Minato was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba, Tokyo, Shiba wards following Tokyo City's Local Autonomy Ac ...

. * August 1, 1959 -

(JNN) is formed. * November 29, 1960 - KRT was renamed , and the headquarters and radio studio were moved to the main building in Akasaka. * August 1961 - TBS unveils the cursive logo, after the renaming of Tokyo Broadcasting System from KRT. * July 17, 1966 Ultraman Begins airing becoming popular in Japan. *October 1, 1967 Ultraseven Begins airing becoming More popular and reaching More viewers Ratings. * 1971 - TBS Radio's transmitter power was increased to 100 kW. *April 2, 1971 Return Of Ultraman begins airing and revives The Ultra series. * March 31, 1975 -

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified radio and television broadcaster serving in the Kansai region. On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions ...

(ABC) dropped out JNN and

Mainichi Broadcasting System JOOY-DTV (channel 4), branded as or (formerly known as from 1959 to 2011), is a Japanese television station serving as the Kansai region key station of the Japan News Network, owned-and-operated by a subsidiary of MBS Media Holdings with ...

(MBS) joined the news network due to ownership issues with ABC. Since then, MBS has been an affiliated TV station of JNN in

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and

Kansai region The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropol ...

. * November 23, 1978 - The frequency for TBS Radio was moved to 954 kHz. * May 2, 1986 - TBS starts broadcasting the game show

. * 1989 - TBS became culpable in the

Sakamoto family murder On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本堤 ''Sakamoto Tsutsumi'' April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko a ...

Aum Shinrikyo , better known by their former name , is a Japanese new religions, Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been respo ...

, resulting in complaints against the network after the case was solved several years later. * October 19, 1990 - The last-ever episode of

was broadcast on TBS. * September 20, 1991 - TBS enters into an agreement with

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS. It is headquartered in New York City. CBS News television programs include ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs ''CBS News Sunday Morn ...

in the U.S. for newscasts and satellite relays. Following a short-lived logo for 30 years. * October 3, 1994 - The present headquarters, TBS Broadcasting Center, were completed next to the old headquarters (later renamed as Akasaka Media Building until its demolition in 2003). They are called "Big Hat (ビッグハット)". Nine months after the third logo was unveiled. *April 1, 1998 - JNN News Bird starts broadcasting. In 2006, the channel was renamed TBS News Bird. * February 2000 - TBS adopts a symbol based on the Kanji symbol for "person". * March 21, 2000 - TBS founded TBS Radio & Communications Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ラジオ・アンド・コミュニケーションズ→株式会社TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ), TBS Entertainment Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・エンタテインメント), and TBS Sports Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・スポーツ), and founded TBS Live Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ライブ) the next day. On October 1, 2001, TBS succeeded the radio station to TBS Radio & Communications, and changed callsign of TV station (JOKR-TV → JORX-TV). * July 1, 2002 - TBS ch. starts broadcasting on pay television. * October 1, 2004 - TBS Entertainment merged TBS Sports and TBS Live, and changed the corporate name to Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (株式会社TBSテレビ). * October 13, 2005 - Rakuten Inc. announced that it bought 15.46 percent stake in TBS, bringing it up to 19%. * After over a month and a half of worries over a possible

hostile takeover In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (law), company (the ''target'') by another (the ''acquirer'' or ''bidder''). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are publicly listed, in contrast t ...

, Rakuten withdrew its bid for TBS on December 1 and planned to form a business alliance with the broadcast company instead. * April 1, 2006 - Digital terrestrial broadcasts commence. * April 1, 2009 - TBS became a certified broadcast holding company named Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.. TV broadcasting business and culture business were taken over by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. and the letters TBS became in use for the abbreviation of the subsidiary company. * March 14, 2011 - A news special program was broadcast without commercials in three days after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent

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. * December 1, 2011 - TBS sold the

Yokohama BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its current ...

, a

Nippon Professional Baseball is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning simply ''Professional Baseball''; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league ...

team to

DeNA is a Japanese provider of mobile portal and e-commerce websites headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It owns the Mobage cell phone platform and also operates other services, including the e-commerce website DeNA Shopping (formerly: Bidders). H ...

. DeNA will buy 66.92 percent of the team's stock for 6.5 billion yen from TBS. TBS will retain a 2.31 percent ownership stake in the team. * April 1, 2016 - TBS Holdings subsidiary, TBS Radio and Communications renamed

. * April 1, 2020 - After 26 years, TBS unveils an updated logo. * October 1, 2020: Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. was renamed as TBS Holdings, Inc., to commemorate 70th anniversary of the company since 1950.

Coverage

Current

Broadcasting rights

Football

= Soccer

= *

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** National teams *** Men's : ****

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(including qualifiers for Europe (all matches) and Asia (selected matches) **

Japan national football team The , also known by the nickname , represents Japan in men's international Association football, football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. Prior to the late 1980s, Japan's nat ...

** Japan national under-23 football team

Volleyball

* FIVB **

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FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was var ...

Golf

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Multi-sport events

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Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The 1896 Summer Olympics, inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, ...

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Announcers

Programs

Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.

Sporting competition

*'' Kinniku Banzuke'' (, also known as ''Unbeatable Banzuke'' in the United States and United Kingdom) *'' Sasuke'' (''known as Ninja Warrior in other countries, e.g.:

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'' in the

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) ''an obstacle course based game show, originally part of Kinniku Banzuke'' *''

Kunoichi is a Japanese term for . In popular culture, it is often used for female ninja or practitioner of ninjutsu (''ninpo''). The term was largely popularized by novelist Futaro Yamada in his novel in 1964. Although kunoichi have appeared in numerou ...

'' Sasuke's female counterpart *''

'' () *'' Pro Sportsman No.1'' (最強の男は誰だ!壮絶筋肉バトル!!スポーツマンNo.1決定戦) ** ''Sports Danshi Grand Prix'' (究極の男は誰だ!?最強スポーツ男子頂上決戦), reboot version of ''Pro Sportsman No.1.'' * KASSO,

skateboarding Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport that involves riding and Skateboarding trick, performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a method of tr ...

gameshow * Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV (炎の体育会TV) *''HANZO'', Sasuke's spin-off sports gameshow based on

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek language, Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) (). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Anci ...

Variety and talk shows

*''

Masahiro Nakai is a Japanese former television personality, actor, radio personality, and singer. He debuted as the leader of the boy band SMAP, which had been the best-selling boy band in Asia. While working as a member of a boy band, he worked extensively as ...

's '' ()

Music

*''

The Best Ten , was a Japanese music chart television program broadcast on TBS Television (Japan), TBS Television from 1978 to 1989. The weekly shows were broadcast live on Thursdays. During its broadcast history, the air time and day changed only once. Each e ...

'' () (1978–1989) (the program's best episodes were rerun in 2020 as a special) *''

Count Down TV (also known as CDTV) is a Japanese late-night music television program, broadcast on TBS since 1993. The program is shown weekly, and features a Japanese music video hit chart countdown, live performances from musicians and music information. ...

Dramas and TV series

*'' Another World'' () *''

Days of Our Lives ''Days of Our Lives'' (also stylized as ''Days of our Lives''; simply referred to as ''Days'' or ''DOOL'') is an American television soap opera that aired on the network NBC from November 8, 1965, to September 9, 2022; the soap has streamed n ...

'' () *''

Passions ''Passions'' is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999, to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007, to August 7, 2008. Created by screenwriter James E. Reilly and ...

'' () *'' Santa Barbara'' () *'' Sunset Beach'' ()

Information and news programs

*'' Mino Monta no '' () *''The World Heritage'' ()

Game shows

*''Quiz ¥20,000,000 Money Drop'' (), Japanese version of The Million Pound Drop *' () (Spring/Fall) *'' Sanma's '' () *'' Tokyo Friend Park II'' () *''

Dragon Zakura is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norifusa Mita. Serialized in ''Weekly Morning'' from 2003 to 2007, it was released into 21 ''tankōbon'' by Kodansha between October 22, 2003, and August 23, 2007. It was adapted into ...

'' () *''

Princess Resurrection is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine '' Monthly Shōnen Sirius'' from June 2005 to February 2013, with its chapters collected in 20 volumes. The manga was licensed in No ...

'' *'' Japan Cable Awards'' () *''

Japan Record Award is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Established in 1959, the Japan Record Awards are one of the oldest and most prestigious music awards in the count ...

s'' () *''

Tokyo Music Festival The Tokyo Music Festival was an international music contest that ran from 1972 to 1992. It was organized by the Tokyo Music Festival Foundation. The first edition of the Tokyo Music Festival took place on 13 May 1972 with 12 participating countr ...

'' () *''

Food Battle Club ''Food Battle Club'' (フードバトルクラブ) is a Japanese competitive eating television program by Tokyo Broadcasting System (formerly ) is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the telev ...

'' *'' Hachiji da yo! Zen'in shūgō'' (1969–1985) *''Newscope'' () → ''JNN Evening News'' () → '' Evening 5'' () → ''THE NEWS'' () → ''N Studio'' () *''Karei-naru Ichizoku () - TBS 55th anniversary drama starring

Takuya Kimura is a Japanese actor, singer, and radio personality. He is regarded as a Japanese icon after achieving success as an actor. He was also a popular member of SMAP, one of the best-selling boy bands in Asia. In the media, he is known as a huge hea ...

(

SMAP was a Japanese boy band, composed of Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Shingo Katori. The group was created in 1988 by music producer Johnny Kitagawa, founder of Johnny & Associates, originally as a six-p ...

) *''

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'' () *''

Utaban was a Japanese music variety show, broadcast weekly from October 15, 1996 until March 23, 2010 on TBS. The name of the show is an abbreviation of , meaning "music program". A special version of the show, running for two hours, was occasionally a ...

'' () → ''The Music Hour'' () *''Samurai Baseball'' () -

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games *''

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'' *''Quiz Derby'' *''We asked 100 people'' () (1979–1992), Japanese version of

Family Feud ''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. Two families compete on each episode to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The show has had three separate runs, the ...

*''The Chance!'' () (1979–1986), Japanese version of

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*''

Toray Pan Pacific Open Pan Pacific Open, Tennis tournaments in Japan Hard court tennis tournaments WTA 500 tournaments Recurring sporting events established in 1984 Sports competitions in Tokyo 1984 establishments in Japan ...

'' *''

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'' *''

'' (since 1997,

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Official Broadcaster) *''

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'' () *''

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'' () *'' Ah, You're really Gone Now''. This TV film was selected at the 49ème Festival de télévision de Monte-Carlo in

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in June 2009. It obtained the special commendation of the

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Jury. *'' Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika'' (2005) *''

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'' (2010) *' (2011) *''Ginayon'' (1985-2012 (present)) *

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(2019)

Anime programming

* ''

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Criticism

Sakamoto family murders

TBS was accused of failing to protect its sources in October 1989, when it taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto regarding his investigations into the

sect. The network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge. Aum officials then pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto, his wife and child were murdered by Aum members on 3 November.

Notes

References

External links

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- {{Authority control Japanese companies established in 1951 Holding companies based in Tokyo Liberal media in Japan Mass media companies based in Tokyo Mitsui Shochiku Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Akasaka, Tokyo 1960s initial public offerings

History

Coverage

Current

Broadcasting rights

Football

= Soccer

Volleyball

Golf

Multi-sport events

Announcers

Programs

Sporting competition

Variety and talk shows

Music

Dramas and TV series

Information and news programs

Game shows

Anime programming

Criticism

Sakamoto family murders

See also

Notes

References

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