NHK Radio 1

NHK Radio 1 (NHKラジオ第1放送, NHK Rajio Dai-ichi Hōsō) is Japan's oldest radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of news, current affairs, and information is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 4, Radio National, CBC Radio One, RNZ National and Radju Malta.[1] NHK Radio 1 is available mainly on AM. The callsign is JOAK in Tokyo. It began broadcasting on March 22, 1925. During World War II, it often broadcast official announcements.[2]

NHK Radio 1
Typeradio station
Country
Japan
Broadcast area
Japan
Programming
FormatNews, Talk, Drama, local programming, Sumo, Japanese pop music, Sports
Ownership
OwnerNHK
History
Launch dateMarch 22, 1925
Coverage
StationsSee list
Links
WebcastNHK Net Radio
WebsiteNHK.or.jp/r1/

Frequencies

Tokyo: 594kHz (Power: 300kW: 2020: 500kW)

Osaka: 666kHz (Power: 100kW; 2020: 500kW)

Sapporo: 567kHz (Power: 100kW)

Fukuoka: 612kHz (Power: 100kW)

Nagoya: 729kHz (Power: 50kW; 2020: 500kW)

Hakodate: 675kHz (Power: 5kW)

Niigata: 837kHz (Power: 10kW)

Nagano: 819kHz (Power: 5kW)

Kofu: 927kHz (Power: 5kW)

See also

References
  1. "Regular Radio Broadcasting Begins". Archived from the original on 8 June 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. Chun, Jayson Makoto (6 December 2006). A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973. Routledge. ISBN 9781135869762. Retrieved 13 February 2017.


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