Kitanihon Broadcasting

Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.

Trade name	KNB
Native name	北日本放送株式会社
Romanized name	Kitanihon Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Television and Radio broadcasting
Founded	March 14, 1952; 72 years ago (1952-03-14)
Headquarters	10-18 Ushimacho, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture , Japan
Website	www.knb.ne.jp
Footnotes / references Data from its Company Profile

Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (北日本放送株式会社, Kitanihon Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha), also known as KNB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS). Their headquarters are located in Toyama Prefecture.

History

With the promulgation of the Three Radio Laws, it was initially expected in 1948 that Toyama would be the target area of a radio station from Ishikawa as Hokuriku Cultural Broadcasting (the later Hokuriku Broadcasting Company). Teru Nakayama, editor-in-chief of the Kitanihon Shimbun, who felt a sense of crisis about this, advised the top management to apply for a license for a private radio station. At this time, no one listened, but this was the trigger that later led to the opening of Kitanihon Broadcasting.

Kitanihon Broadcasting applied for a license on February 15, 1951 and issued its preliminary license on April 21 the same year.^[1]

Network

• TV: Nippon News Network (NNN)
• RADIO: Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN)

Stations

Analog TV

• Toyama (Main Station) JOLR-TV 1ch
• Nanto-Toga 6ch
• Unazuki 36ch
• Hosoiri-Inotani 39ch
• Himi-Ronden 41ch

Digital TV(ID:1)

• Toyama (Main Station) JOLR-DTV 28ch

Radio

• Toyama(Main Station) JOLR 738 kHz; 80.1 MHz, 90.2 MHz

Programs

Radio

TV

Rival Stations

• Toyama Television(BBT)
• TulipTelevision(TUT)
• Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting(HAB, by introducing CATV)

References

External links

• KNB WEB

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