BS-TBS

is a Japanese satellite broadcasting station headquartered in Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo. Its channel name is BS-TBS (formerly, BS-i).

Channels

• Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.
• Radio: BS-i had been assigned 461ch, 462ch, and was closed on September 30, 2005. - TBS Radio & Communications had been produced. TVM 461ch has launched
• Data: BS-TBS is assigned BS766ch, BS768ch, but BS768ch is not being used now.

History

• November, 1998: founded.
• June, 2000: JDC was renamed .
• December 1, 2000: BS-i started broadcasting.
• July, 2003: BS-i moved its headquarters from TBS Hoso Kaikan to TBS Broadcast Center 15th fl.
• September 30, 2005: BS-i closed satellite radio broadcasting.
• April 1, 2009: BS-i, Incorporated was renamed to its current name BS-TBS, Incorporated.

Programs

• General programs
• A number of programs which TBS broadcasts are also broadcast on BS-TBS.
• Anime programs
• Anime produced by BS-TBS are popular among anime fans because the regulation of expression on satellite broadcasting is looser than on terrestrial broadcasting.
• On TBS, in order to adjust size, most 16:9 anime is cropped on the left and right. They are broadcast on BS-TBS in their original form.
• These are anime programs exclusively broadcast on BS-TBS:
• Air
• Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma
• He Is My Master
• Kanon
• Little Snow Fairy Sugar
• Mahoromatic
• Popotan
• This Ugly yet Beautiful World
• Yumeria
• These are anime programs broadcast on both TBS and BS-TBS:
• Acchi Kocchi
• Bincho-tan
• BLACK CAT
• Chobits
• Clannad
• Clannad -After Story-
• Heat Guy J
• Ichigo Mashimaro
• K-On!
• Local Chat with RBG
• Melody of Oblivion
• Oh My Goddess!
• REC
• Rozen Maiden
• Rozen Maiden Traumend
• Sankarea
• Tsukihime, Lunar Legend

See also

• Tokyo Broadcasting System
• Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
• TBS Radio & Communications

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