NHK FM
NHK-FM is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of classical music, jazz, rock, Japanese pop music, folk, seven times of news bulletins and talk is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 3 in the United Kingdom and KBS Happy FM, KBS Classic FM and KBS Cool FM in South Korea.
History
NHK started test FM broadcasts on December 24, 1957 in Tokyo. This was followed by a second station in Osaka on February 20, 1958. The experimental station was based on the BBC Third Programme. In 1964, there were now 26 NHK FM stations, covering 70% of the country.Between 1962 and 1965, the following stations opened:
- September 17, 1962: Hiroshima, Fukuoka
- December 2, 1962: Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Matsuyama, Kumamoto
- April 1, 1964: Shizuoka, Okayama, Yamaguchi, Kochi
- May 1, 1964: Kitakyushu, Nagasaki
- June 1, 1964: Morioka, Akita
- June 25, 1964: Asahikawa
- July 1, 1964: Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Kanazawa, Toyama, Matsue, Miyazaki, Kagoshima
- December 2, 1964: Hakodate, Obihiro, Muroran, Aomori, Yamagata, Tottori
- February 5, 1965: Kushiro, Fukui
- March 1, 1965: Kofu, Tokushima, Oita
- March 22, 1965: Takamatsu, Saga
- March 27, 1965: Kitami