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NHK WORLD TV (www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld), a stand-alone 24-hour English language TV news channel produced by NHK, Japan’s sole public, independent broadcasting corporation, is now available for the first time to over seven million TV viewers in the New York City region, who will be able to tune into Japan and Asian news coverage all day and night.
NHK WORLD TV is available as digital broadcast through a dedicated, over the air channel on Regional News Network (WRNN – Channel 48.5), which can be seen by six million households in the New York City area.1 The network will also be available in HD to Time Warner Cable subscribers (Channel 771 in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Channel 792 in Bergen County, NJ and the Hudson Valley).
NHK WORLD TV is available 24 hours a day to 150 million households in more than 130 countries/regions through local satellite services and cable service providers.
"NHK WORLD TV is expanding to New York because we believe there is a market for a U.S. audience interested in Asian programming, focusing on breaking news from the region, Japanese culture, developments in society/politics and on being a key source for natural disasters news,” says Tetsushi Wakita, Head of NHK WORLD. “As many U.S. media outlets have closed their Tokyo bureaus to cut costs in recent years, NHK WORLD TV will fill the void with independent, credible reporting on Japan and the rest of Asia, making full use of our bases in Beijing, Seoul, Bangkok and elsewhere, as we will now be seen on televisions across New York City.”
RNN, a privately owned, New York-based news and talk television network, will also air Newsline, NHK WORLD TV’s 30 minute newscast covering Japan, Asian and international news on WRNN-TV weekdays at 7 pm ET, following the Emmy-Award winning "Richard French Live."
"Since 1993, Regional News Network has served the tri-state area with original and news programming," said RNN President Dick French. "We are working with NHK WORLD TV to meet the demand that exists for more international news in the New York City area, one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse in the world.”
© Business Wire
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Andres Ortega Muñoz
When in Latin America????
Long-underwear Man
Very Cool I love in new jersey and now can watch NHK news from Japan
Elbuda Mexicano
Happy you are LOVING in Jersey and now all the better with NHK??
Dennis Bauer
So soon an NHK employee will knock on your door asking for money?
garomakaikishi
nhk world tv is biased one sided news. nothing to gain here guys. its free in singapore.
Charles Rovira
There's always bias in any media organ wholly or partially funded by any government. Its usually just as egregious as the blind spots in commercial or corporate mouth pieces.
I tend to trust traditional media(1) about as far as a monkey can fling his feces.
But I still welcome this new data point on which I can base my research into the Japan and the Japanese people.
1) Traditional media, because of their 1:N nature, have been compared to robber barons renting time at their megaphones for Global Village Idiots to shout their messages in a rising din to increasingly deafened sheeple.