11/27/2005

Japan’s 5 TV stations to begin free webcasting

Japan’s 5 TV Stations to Start Webcast With Dentsu
Tokyo–Japan’s five major television networks, including Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. , plan to team up with advertising giant Dentsu Inc. to distribute their programs over the Internet from next spring….Dentsu to arrange ads for TV programs and to set up a new company to distribute the programs free of charge, the sources said. The five TV stations will provide the new company with programs for the Webcast.

This great news for you folks studying Japanese. TV provides you with real Japanese that people use and the drivel that is found in anime and manga. All the major TV network will be FREE: TBS, Fuji Television Network Inc. , TV Asahi Corp. , Nippon Television Network Corp. and TV Tokyo Corp. Cho bery godo (Really very good).

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1. karl Says:
   November 28th, 2005 at 6:07 am

   Interesting, hope you will provide a link(s) later. There is some JPN (TV, Radio) broadcasting here:
   http://www.vtuner.com/vtunerweb/static/staticJapanoverall1.html

2. taro Says:
   November 28th, 2005 at 5:23 pm

   Oh, I will provide the links. This will be a BIG help for students of Japanese. However, it seems that they will be rebroadcasting reruns –meh– and the “free” has not been decided yet.

   TBS, Dentsu to broadcast TV reruns online
   Japan Today - Monday, November 28, 2005 at 17:09 JST
   TOKYO — Dentsu Inc, Japan’s top advertising agency, said Monday it has launched studies with five Tokyo-based commercial TV broadcasters on jointly establishing a company for webcasting reruns of TV programs. The partners will study providing video programs via the Internet to meet growing demand for such services, Dentsu said. They will study all possibilities, including free and paid-for services….more…

3. A mine Says:
   June 26th, 2006 at 2:29 am

   i’m like one site — your web site.

4. Taro Says:
   June 27th, 2006 at 2:34 am

   Thanks “Amine” :-)

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