NHK World Premium
| NHK World Premium | |
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| 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 |
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Availability
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| 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] |
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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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