NHK Mito Broadcasting Station
The NHK Mito Broadcasting Station (NHK水戸放送局, NHK Mito Hōsō Kyoku) is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in Ibaraki Prefecture. Only NHK FM and NHK General TV have local versions, while Radio 1, Radio 2 and NHK E are served directly from the NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo.
The callsign used is JOEP.
History
The Mito station set up its studios on December 9, 1941 and started AM radio broadcasts on April 10, 1942. After the war, on September 1, 1945, the station used the JOAK2 callsign; later, from July 1, 1948, JOAX (a few years later, Nippon Television adopted the callsign) until the station closed on August 16 that year.[1]
On April 6, 1970, NHK-FM opened its station in Mito. With the advent of digital terrestrial television and the facilitation of the usage of a single frequency network, the station started broadcasting local television signals, detaching from the Tokyo station, on October 1, 2004. Until fiscal 2015, the station produced news bulletins every day, but due to budget cuts beginning in fiscal 2016, cuts started, before being limited to weekdays from 2018.[2][3]
Television broadcasts are less likely to be received in the southern and western regions of the prefecture due to overspill from either the Utsunomiya or Tokyo stations.[4] On September 5, 2011, weeks after the shutdown of analog television in Japan, the Tsukuba transmitting station became omnidirectional, improving its reception.[5]
References
- ^ "茨城県放送局情報". Denpa Data (in Japanese).
- ^ 茨城県のニュース・気象情報 放送時間のご案内 - NHK水戸放送局
- ^ 2019年度前半期 定時番組の部門種別（各地域） - NHK経営情報 国内放送番組の種別
- ^ "NHK水戸放送局 | Q&A - 県西部・県南部にお住まいの方へ". NHK水戸放送局. 日本放送協会. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ "地上デジタルテレビジョン放送局（中継局）の放送エリアに係る変更許可について ≪茨城県筑波中継局の放送エリアの拡大≫". 関東総合通信局. 2011-08-18. Archived from the original on 2011-08-21. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)