TBS (Japan)
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| Kabushiki gaisha | |
| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Information, Communication |
| Founded | Tokyo, Japan (May 17, 1951) |
| Headquarters | TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Services | Stockholding |
| Revenue |
 ¥342,754 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
 ¥7,705 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
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¥103 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
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| Total assets |
¥593,023 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Total equity |
¥344,658 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Owner | see |
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Number of employees
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5,271 |
| Subsidiaries |
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. others, see TBS Group |
| Website | http://www.tbsholdings.co.jp/ |
Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. (株式会社東京放送ホールディングス Kabushiki-gaisha Tōkyō Hōsō Hōrudingusu), TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (株式会社TBSテレビ, abbreviated to TBS) and radio network named TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. (株式会社TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ).
TBS Television, Inc. has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN (Japan Radio Network) which TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. (TBSラジオ) has.
TBS (present TBS Holdings, Inc.) produced the Takeshi's Castle game show and is also home to the many Ultraman series.
JORX-TV (former callsign: JOKR-TV) - TBS Television (TBSテレビジョン (former Japanese name: 東京放送))
JORX-DTV - TBS Digital Television (TBSデジタルテレビジョン)
...among others.
Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.
TBS is notoriously known for intentionally violating protection of sources in October 1989. In that month of that year, the Tokyo Broadcasting System taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto regarding his efforts to unveil the deceptive dogmas of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect. However, the network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge, intentionally breaking its protection of sources. Aum officials then pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto was murdered by the members after a few days, on the 3rd of November. This makes TBS indirectly responsible for a homicide of a person who combated the dangerous sect and attempted to bring the attention of the public to the everyday human rights violations taking place within that sect.
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