NHK Morioka Broadcasting Station

The NHK Morioka Broadcasting Station (NHK盛岡放送局, NHK Morioka Hōsō Kyoku) is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in Iwate Prefecture. The station uses the JOQG and JOQC calls.

History

JOQG started broadcasting on August 7, 1938. Television broadcasts followed in December 1958.[1]

On June 1, 1964, JOQG-FM started test broadcasts, with stereo programming being relayed from Sendai.[2] Color broadcasts started on JOQG-TV on September 24, 1964[3] and on JOQC-TV on March 20, 1966.[4] In 1971, local news items began to be shot on color film.[5]

In 1977, work to convert local operations to stereo started.[6] Full-time stereo broadcasting on JOQG-FM began on March 31, 1980.[7] Television stereo broadcasts began on JOQG-TV on August 8, 1986,[8] while JOQC-TV followed on March 21, 1991.[9] The analog signals were switched off on March 31, 2012. In 2011–2012, the station aired Testimony: Those Days, Those Times, about the effects of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. These aired on Obanai Iwate. In addition, segments from Iwate were also seen on Sendai's Disaster News segment for the three affected prefectures.[10]

References

  1. ^ Terachi, Minako. "ヒエラルヒーとしてのテレビ電波 －1953-60年の中央と地方， 青森県青森市と八戸市の比較から－" (PDF). NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute (in Japanese).
  2. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修部 (1965), NHK年鑑'65 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 228
  3. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修部 (1965), NHK年鑑'65 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 233-235
  4. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修部 (1966), NHK年鑑'66 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 60
  5. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修室 (1972), NHK年鑑'72 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, pp. 294–295, 302
  6. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修部 (1978), NHK年鑑'78 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 170
  7. ^ 日本放送協会総合放送文化研究所放送史編修部 (1980), NHK年鑑'80 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 44, 221
  8. ^ 日本放送協会放送文化調査研究所放送情報調査部 (1987), NHK年鑑'87, 日本放送出版協会, p. 67
  9. ^ 日本放送協会放送文化研究所放送情報調査部 (1991), NHK年鑑'91 (in Japanese), NHK Publishing, p. 284
  10. ^ "証言 あの日あの時". NHK盛岡放送局. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
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