TBS Holdings explained
| TBS Holdings, Inc. |
| Native Name: | 株式会社TBSホールディングス |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Romanized Name: | Kabushiki gaisha TBS Hōrudingusu |
| Trade Name: | TBS, TBS HD |
| Type: | State-owned |
| Foundation: | in Tokyo, Japan |
| Location: | TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka |
| Location City: | Minato, Tokyo |
| Location Country: | Japan |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Owner: | Tokyo Metropolitan Government (100%)
MTBJ investment trusts (10.4%; 5.3% managed for Dentsu (largest shareholder))
MBS Media Holdings (5%)
SMBC (3.2%)
Mitsui Fudosan (3.1%)
NTT (3.1%) |
| Revenue: | ¥342,754 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Operating Income: | ¥7,705 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Net Income: | ¥103 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Assets: | ¥593,023 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Equity: | ¥344,658 million (consolidated, March 2011) |
| Num Employees: | 5,271 |
| Homepage: | http://www.tbsholdings.co.jp/ |
(formerly) is a privately owned media company in Japan. It is the parent company of the television network TBS Television and radio network TBS Radio. It has a 28-affiliate television network called Japan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called Japan Radio Network.
TBS produced the game show Takeshi's Castle and has also broadcast the Ultra Series programs and Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan. TBS is a member of the Mitsui Group keiretsu and often collaborates with the Mainichi Shimbun despite its lack of shareholding.
History
- May 1951 - is founded in Kasumigaseki in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
- December 25, 1951 - KRT begins radio broadcasting (1130 kHz, 50 kW) from Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo
- July 1953 - KRTs radio broadcast frequency changes to 950 kHz.
- April 1955 - KRT begins TV broadcasting (JOKR-TV, Channel 6) from Akasaka-Hitotsukicho in Minato, Tokyo.
- August 1, 1959 - Japan News Network (JNN) is formed.
- November 29, 1960 - KRT is renamed The headquarters and radio studio are moved to the main building in Akasaka.
- August 1961 - KRT is renamed Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), and unveils the cursive logo .
- July 17, 1966 - Ultraman begins airing, becoming popular in Japan.
- October 1, 1967 - Ultraseven begins airing, with higher popularity and viewer ratings.
- 1971 - TBS Radio's transmitter power is increased to 100 kW.
- April 2, 1971 - Return Of Ultraman begins airing and revives The Ultra series.
- March 31, 1975 - Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) drops out and JNN and Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) joins the news network due to ownership issues with ABC. Since then, MBS has been an affiliated TV station of JNN in Osaka and Kansai region.
- November 23, 1978 - The frequency for TBS Radio is moved to 954 kHz.
- May 2, 1986 - TBS begins broadcasting the game show Takeshi's Castle.
- 1989 - TBS becomes culpable in the Sakamoto family murder by Aum Shinrikyo, which results in complaints against the network after the case is solved.[1]
- October 19, 1990 - The last episode of Takeshi's Castle is broadcast on TBS.
- September 20, 1991 - TBS enters into an agreement with American network CBS News for newscasts and satellite relays.
- October 3, 1994 - The present headquarters, TBS Broadcasting Center (also called "Big Hat (ビッグハット)"), are completed next to the old headquarters (later renamed as Akasaka Media Building until its demolition in 2003). Nine months later a third logo is unveiled.
- April 1, 1998 - JNN News Bird begins broadcasting. The channel is later renamed TBS News Bird in 2006.
- February 2000 - TBS adopts a symbol based on the Kanji symbol for "person".
- March 21, 2000 - TBS founds TBS Radio & Communications Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ラジオ・アンド・コミュニケーションズ→株式会社TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ), TBS Entertainment Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・エンタテインメント), and TBS Sports Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・スポーツ), and begins TBS Live Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ライブ) the next day. On October 1, 2001, TBS changes both the name of the radio station to TBS Radio & Communications, and the callsign of TV station (JOKR-TV → JORX-TV).
- July 1, 2002 - TBS ch. begins broadcasting on pay television.
- October 1, 2004 - TBS Entertainment merges TBS Sports and TBS Live, changing the corporate name to Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (株式会社TBSテレビ).
- October 13, 2005 - Rakuten Inc. announces its purchase of a 15.46 percent stake in TBS, bringing Rakuten's stake up to 19%.
- December 1, 2005 - After worries of a possible hostile takeover, Rakuten withdraws its bid for TBS and plans to form a business alliance with the broadcast company instead.
- April 1, 2006 - Digital terrestrial broadcasts commence.
- April 1, 2009 - TBS becomes a certified broadcast holding company named Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.. Its TV broadcasting and other operations are taken over by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. and the letters TBS are used for the abbreviation of its subsidiary company.
- March 14, 2011 - A news special program is broadcast without commercials three days after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- December 1, 2011 - TBS sells the Yokohama BayStars, a Nippon Professional Baseball team to DeNA. DeNA buys 66.92 percent of the team's stock for 6.5 billion yen from TBS. TBS retains a 2.31 percent ownership stake in the team.[2]
- April 1, 2016 - TBS Holdings subsidiary, TBS Radio and Communications is renamed TBS Radio
- April 1, 2020 - After 26 years, TBS unveils an updated logo.
- October 1, 2020 - Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. is renamed TBS Holdings, Inc., to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the company since 1950.
Criticism
Sakamoto family murders
TBS was accused of failing to protect its sources in October 1989, when it taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto about his investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo sect. The network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge. Aum officials pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto, his wife, and child were murdered by Aum members on 3 November.[3]
See also
- Hobankyo - Organization based in Japan which enforces TBS copyright issues
Notes and References
- Web site: TV Station Comes Under New Fire in Cult Scandal. Associated Press news. 1996-04-02. 2010-09-28.
- News: NPB/ TBS sells BayStars to DeNA, pending league approval. November 5, 2011. December 8, 2011. Asahi Asia & Japan Watch. Asahi Shimbun. November 5, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111105190642/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sports/base_ball/AJ2011110516659. dead.
- News: Japan TV network fights ethics charges. UPI. 2018-07-06. en.
