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NHK World Premium

NHK World Premium
Logo NHK World Premium.jpg
Launched July 23, 2006
Owned by NHK
Picture format 16:9/4:3 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Slogan Japan, Closer To You (日本をいつもどこでも)
Country Japan
Language Japanese, English (certain programmes only)
Broadcast area Worldwide
Headquarters NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Sister channel(s) NHK World
Website Official Website
Availability
Satellite
In Digital (India) Channel 866
Indovision Indonesia Channel 354
TrueVisions Thailand Channel 787
SKY México Mexico Channel 283 (Mexico)
DirecTV South America and Caribe Channel 782
GVT Brazil Channel 140
Sky UK and Ireland Channel 507 (HD)
Freesat UK Channel 209 (HD)
Globecast Australia and New Zealand (Optus D2 152°E) 12546 V 22500 3/4 (SD)
DD Direct+ India Channel 42
Astra 19.2 Europe 11,509 MHz (Vertical)
Intelsat 19 (166°E) 4060 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Intelsat 20 (68.5°E) 3739 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Intelsat 21 (58.0°W) 4040 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Cignal Digital TV Philippines Channel TBA
Astro Malaysia Channel 398
TVB Network Vision (Hong Kong) Channel 100
Cable
Sky Cable Philippines Channel 131 (Digital)
Parasat Cable TV Philippines Channel 315
StarHub TV Singapore Channel 811
TrueVisions Thailand Channel 787
First Media Indonesia Channel 257
Destiny Cable Channel 131 (Digital)
Channel 119 (Analog)
Time Warner Cable Hawaii, US Channel 682 & 1682 (HD)
Skylife Korea Channel 97 (HD)
Minneapolis Public Schools Minneapolis, MN Channel 78
Onlime Russia Channel 96
Cable TV Hong Kong Channel 148
GTD Manquehue Santiago, Chile Channel 125
Cablelink Philippines Channel 132
Surigao Cable TV Philippines Channel 71
Virgin Media UK Channel 625 (HD)
(Macau) Channel 201
IPTV
Now TV Hong Kong Channel 711
Singtel TV (Singapore) Channel 682
Streaming media
Live Webcast [1]

NHK World Premium is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, Press TV, DD News, Zee News, DW-TV, France 24, Russia Today and India Today broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world.

NHK World Premium Television broadcast a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese worldwide via satellite as a subscription service. In Europe this service is broadcast under the name JSTV and in the US it is known as TV Japan. The programmes generally don't carry English subtitles while a few programmes especially news have bilingual audio.

NHK World Premium programs and contents are available online:


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