RKB Mainichi Broadcasting

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{{Infobox company

| name = RKB Mainichi Holdings Corporation

| logo = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting logo 2005.svg

| logo_size = 170px

| image = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Hall 20160426.JPG

| trading_name = RKB

| native_name = 株式会社RKB毎日ホールディングス

| traded_as = {{Fukuoka Stock Exchange|9407}}

| romanized_name =Kabushikigaisha RKB Mainichi hōrudingusu

| former_names = Radio Kyushu Co., Ltd. (1951-1958)
RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation (1958-2016)

| type = Public KK

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1951|06|29}}
(as Radio Kyushu Broadcasting)
{{Start date and age|1958|08|01}} (as RKB Mainichi Broadcasting)

| key_people = Ryoji Inoue (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Holdings)
Izumi Sato (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Broadcasting)

| location = 2-3-8 Momochihama

| hq_location_city = Sawara-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

| hq_location_country = Japan

| industry = Media

| owner = MBS Media Holdings (90.3%)
The Mainichi Newspapers (8.63%)
TBS Holdings (6.38%)

| website = {{URL|https://rkb.jp/holdings}}

| subsid = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting

| footnotes = Data from its [https://rkb.jp/company/about/ Corporate Profile]

}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = JOFO

| city = Fukuoka

| area = Fukuoka Prefecture

| logo = RKB radio logo.png

| branding = RKB Radio

| language = Japanese

| affiliations = Japan Radio Network

| format = Talk/Sports

| frequency = {{Frequency|1278|kHz}} (AM); {{Frequency|91.0|MHz}} (FM)

| owner = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation

| callsign_meaning = JO Fukuoka Radio
or
FouR (channel number)

| licensing_authority = MIC

| website = {{url|https://rkb.jp/radio_top/}}

}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = JOFR-DTV
JOFO-TV (defunct)

| image =

| location = Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

| city = Fukuoka

| branding = RKB Television

| digital = 30 (UHF)

| virtual = 4

| affiliations = Japan News Network

| owner = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation

| airdate = {{Start date and age|1958|03|01}}

| last_airdate = {{Start date and age|2011|07|24}} (JOFO-TV)

| sister_stations =

| former_callsigns = JOFR-TV (1958–2011)

| former_channel_numbers = 4 (analog VHF, 1958–2011)
JOFO-TV:
8 (analog VHF, 1958–2011)

| former_affiliations = NTV/NNN (secondary, 1964-1969)

| erp =

| haat =

| class =

| facility_id =

| coordinates = {{coord|33|35|34.285|N|130|21|3.161|E|type:landmark_scale:2000}}

| licensing_authority = MIC

| website ={{url|https://rkb.jp/tv_top/}}

| embedded = {{Infobox company | embed = yes

| name =RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation

| native_name = RKB毎日放送株式会社

| native_name_lang = ja

| type = Subsidiary

| foundation = {{start date and age|2015|9|29}}
(as RKB Mainichi Division Preparation Corporation)

| key_people =

| location = Fukuoka, Japan

| industry = Radio and television network

| owner = RKB Mainichi Holdings

| subsid =

| website = {{url|https://rkb.jp/}}

}}

{{nihongo|RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation|RKB毎日放送株式会社|RKB Mainichi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha}} (stylized as {{sup|+}}rkb) is a broadcasting station located in Fukuoka, Japan. It is affiliated with the Japan Radio Network (JRN) and the Japan News Network (JNN). The company is owned by the MBS Media Holdings, Mainichi Shimbun, and the Aso Group.

The initials RKB stand for {{nihongo|Radio Kyushu Broadcasting|ラジオ九州放送|Rajio Kyūshū Hōsō}}, the station's former name.{{cite book|author=Gabriella Lukács|title=Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gzQc9iKqIcC&pg=PT45|date=15 July 2010|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9323-8|page=35}}{{Cite book|title=放送十年 : RKB每日社史|publisher=RKB Mainichi Broadcasting|year=1962|location=Japan|language=ja|trans-title=10 Years of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting|oclc=881300518}}

History

File:RKB old logo.png

In 1950, following the enactment of the Radio Law, Mainichi Shimbun sought to establish three radio stations in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Its application for the Tokyo area was later merged with those of other national newspapers and Dentsu, forming Radio Tokyo. In the Osaka area, Mainichi Shimbun applied to establish a station under the name New Japan Broadcasting (later renamed Mainichi Broadcasting), and in Fukuoka Prefecture, under the name Radio Kyushu.{{cite book |author={{lang|ja|RKB毎日放送株式会社社史編集委員会}}|script-title=ja:『放送十年 : RKB毎日社史』 |year=1962 |publisher={{lang|ja|RKB毎日放送}} |location=Fukuoka |isbn=}}{{NCID|BN06261126}} {{in lang|ja}}{{rp|12}} A license for JOFR was issued on 21 April 1951, and the company was formally established on 29 June. Radio Kyushu began operations on 1 December of the same year.

Radio Kyushu was one of the first 72 companies in Japan to apply for a license to establish a private radio station.{{rp|10}} In addition to Mainichi Shimbun, Radio Kyushu received investment from local companies such as Nippon Steel and Kyushu Electric Power.{{rp|16}} The headquarters was also located in Kyushu Electric Power's building.{{rp|21}} On 12 April 1951, Radio Kyushu received a preliminary license,{{rp|10}} and on 7 October of the same year, it began trial broadcasting.{{rp|39}} On 1 December, Radio Kyushu officially launched, becoming the first private radio station in Kyushu and the fourth private radio station in Japan.{{rp|29}} In its first month of broadcasting, Radio Kyushu achieved a profit of 500,000 yen.{{rp|44}} The station’s first-generation trademark was selected through an open competition in 1952. The designer was Hatano Yoshiko, a middle school student in Oita Prefecture.{{rp|45}} In December 1952, Radio Kyushu established the Ogura broadcasting station, which became Japan's first privately owned radio relay station.{{rp|98-99}} In July 1953, Radio Kyushu established a labor union.{{rp|41}}

RKB began television broadcasts on 1 March 1958. At the same time, the station merged with Mainichi Seibu Television (tentative call sign JOGX-TV, later reassigned in 2013 after CBC TV spun off). As a result, the planned JOGX station was launched as the Kitakyushu satellite station (JOFO-TV).

RKB began broadcasting a digital signal on 1 July 2006. The station ended its analog programming at noon on 24 July 2011, the date by which all television stations in Japan were required to discontinue analog broadcasts per federal mandate. Right before shutting off their analog broadcasts at 23:59, RKB aired a video montage showcasing its analog history, with Taro Hakase's "The Cozy Bench" as the background music.Archived at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20240720001411/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-YU52d1xw Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-YU52d1xw | title = RKB毎日放送アナログ放送停波前クロージング | website=YouTube| date = 18 March 2013 }}{{cbignore}}