NHK World TV To Launch In New York City

NHK World TV, a stand-alone 24-hour English language TV news channel produced by NHK, Japan’s sole public, independent broadcasting corporation, is now available for the first time to over seven million TV viewers in the New York City region, who will be able to tune into Japan and Asian news coverage all day and night.

NHK World TV is available as digital broadcast through a dedicated, over the air channel on Regional News Network, WRNN, on its ch. 48.5), which can be seen by six million households in the New York City area. The network will also be available in HD to Time Warner Cable subscribers (ch. 771 in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island; and ch. 792 in Bergen County, N.J., and the Hudson Valley).

“NHK World TV is expanding to New York because we believe there is a market for a U.S. audience interested in Asian programming, focusing on breaking news from the region, Japanese culture, developments in society/politics and on being a key source for natural disasters news,” says Tetsushi Wakita, Head of NHK World. “As many U.S. media outlets have closed their Tokyo bureaus to cut costs in recent years, NHK World TV will fill the void with independent, credible reporting on Japan and the rest of Asia, making full use of our bases in Beijing, Seoul, Bangkok and elsewhere, as we will now be seen on televisions across New York City.”

RNN, a privately owned, New York-based news and talk television network, will also air Newsline, NHK World TV’s 30-minute newscast covering Japan, Asian and international news on WRNN weekdays at 7 p.m.