NHK Sasebo Branch
The NHK Sasebo Branch (NHK佐世保支局, NHK Nagasaki Shikyoku) is a division of the NHK Nagasaki Broadcasting Station which is in charge of news gathering operations in Sasebo and the northern half of Nagasaki Prefecture. It used to operate a full radio and television service until 1991.
History
[edit ]The station started broadcasting in 1946 using the JOAT callsign. Radio 2 used the JOAY callsign. At an unknown date, NHK had the callsigns realigned. JOAT became JOAQ and JOAY became JOAZ.[1] Television broadcasts started in 1958, the same year as the station in Nagasaki.[2]
On March 1, 1965, it started relaying JOAG-FM from Nagasaki.[3]
The station was demoted from a broadcasting station to a branch in 1991, being relocated to a rented office in Motomachi. The former building was transferred to city control after the removal of the tower, the antennas and the transmitting equipment. From 1996, it was used as a building for the Fureai Center, but closed in January 2015 due to deterioration.[4]
Long after the end of local programming, the NHK digital terrestrial transmitter network reached Sasebo on April 1, 2007, exactly two months before the commercial networks. NHK G broadcasts on UHF channel 42 and NHK E on UHF channel 40.[5]
References
[edit ]- ^ "地上波放送局 コールサイン(呼出符号) 一覧 【現割当 + 廃止局版】". dgba.ehoh.net (in Japanese).
- ^ "佐世保市の歴史" (PDF). Sasebo City (in Japanese).
- ^ "NHK長崎放送局FM放送佐世保中継局・無線局免許状". MIC Radio Use Portal (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
- ^ "佐世保社協だより第118号" (PDF). 社会福祉法人佐世保市社会福祉協議会 (in Japanese). p. 2. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
- ^ 長崎県の開局済みのデジタル親局、及びデジタル中継局 - 総務省九州総合通信局
External links
[edit ]- Access map (in Japanese)