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 (the current BBC Radio 3). 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
It wasn't until March 1, 1969 that these broadcasts became regular. Since the beginning, the station had played a wide variety of music genres.
See also NHK
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List of frequencies