Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation

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Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation

RBC-QAB Media Center
Native name	琉球放送株式会社 Ryūkyū Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha
Type	Public Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	information, communication
Founded	Okinawa, Japan (September 20, 1954 (1954-09-20))
Headquarters	Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Area served	Okinawa, Japan
Services	Broadcasting Radio program production TV program production
Number of employees	113
Subsidiaries	RBC Vision Corporation (株式会社 RBCビジョン, Kabushiki-gaisha RBC Bijon)
Website	www.rbc.co.jp/corp
Footnotes / references Information per [1] as of June 2016

Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation (琉球放送株式会社, Ryūkyū Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha, RBC) is a regional radio and television broadcaster headquartered in Naha, Okinawa, Japan that serves Okinawa Prefecture. It commenced radio broadcast in October 1954 and television in June 1960.

History[]

On May 16, 1949, the radio station Voice of Ryukyus was founded by the U.S. military government in the Ryukyu Islands for a trial broadcast under the call sign AKAR, and officially started broadcasting on January 21, 1950, as the first Japanese language broadcast by the U.S. military government to the Ryukyu people, with 75% of the programs broadcast by NHK and 25% by the U.S. Military Government.^[2] The radio station was turned over to the University of Ryukyu Foundation in April 1, 1954.^[3]

Due to financial problems of the said university, Ryukyu Broadcasting was established on September 20, 1954 with a capital of ¥10 million to take over the radio operations of the Voice of Ryukyus. Ryukyu Broadcasting officially started broadcasting on October 1, 1954 with the same call sign (KSAR) from its previous owner.^[4]

Network affiliations[]

Radio[]

• Japan Radio Network (JRN)^[1]

TV[]

• Japan News Network (JNN)^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Corporate website (in Japanese)
• Radio website (in Japanese)
• Television website (in Japanese)