NHK Radio 1

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NHK Radio 1
TypeBroadcast radio network
Country
Japan
Broadcast area
Japan
Programming
FormatNews, Talk, Drama, local programming, Sumo, Japanese pop music, Sports
Ownership
OwnerNHK
History
Launch dateMarch 22, 1925
Coverage
StationsSee list
Links
WebcastNHK Net Radio
WebsiteNHK.or.jp/r1/

NHK Radio 1 (NHKラジオ第1放送, NHK Rajio Dai-ichi Hōsō) is Japan's oldest radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of news, current affairs, and information is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 4, Radio National, CBC Radio One and RNZ National.[1] NHK Radio 1 is available mainly on AM. The callsign is JOAK in Tokyo. It began broadcasting on March 22, 1925. During World War II, it often broadcast official announcements.[2]

Stations[edit]

In other provinces

  • Akita: 1503 AM
  • Aomori: 963 AM
  • Asahikawa: 621 AM
  • Fukui: 927 AM
  • Fukuoka: 612 AM
  • Fukushima: 1323 AM
  • Hachinohe: 999 AM
  • Hakodate: 675 AM
  • Hamamatsu: 576 AM
  • Hirosaki: 846 AM
  • Hiroshima: 1071 AM
  • Iwaki: 1341 AM
  • Kagoshima: 576 AM
  • Kanazawa: 1224 AM
  • Kita-Kyūshū: 540 AM
  • Kitami: 1188 AM
  • Kōfu: 927 AM
  • Kōchi: 990 AM
  • Kōriyama: 846 AM
  • Kumamoto: 756 AM
  • Kushiro: 585 AM
  • Matsue: 1296 AM
  • Matsuyama: 963 AM
  • Miyazaki: 540 AM
  • Morioka: 531 AM
  • Muroran: 945 AM
  • Nagano: 819 AM
  • Nagasaki: 684 AM
  • Nagoya: 729 AM
  • Naha: 549 AM
  • Niigata: 837 AM
  • Obihiro: 603 AM
  • Ōita: 639 AM
  • Okayama: 603 AM
  • Osaka: 666 AM
  • Ōtsu: 945 AM
  • Saga: 963 AM
  • Sapporo: 567 AM
  • Sendai: 891 AM
  • Shizuoka: 882 AM
  • Takamatsu: 1368 AM
  • Tokushima: 945 AM
  • Tottori: 1368 AM
  • Toyama: 648 AM
  • Tsuruoka: 1368 AM
  • Yamagata: 540 AM
  • Yamaguchi: 675 AM

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Regular Radio Broadcasting Begins". Archived from the original on 8 June 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. ^ Chun, Jayson Makoto (6 December 2006). A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973. Routledge. ISBN 9781135869762. Retrieved 13 February 2017.