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NHK World Premium

International broadcasting service by NHK

Field	Value
name	NHK World Premium
logo	NHK WORLD PREMIUM logo.png
launch_date	1 April 1998
owner
country	Japan
language	Japanese (Main audio) English (available on bilingual programs)
area	Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America (South, Middle, Caribbean), Middle East, CIS, Europe
picture_format
headquarters	NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
sister_channels
website

NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards Japanese Diaspora and the overseas market, similar to worldwide national channels such as CCTV-4, KBS World, TV5Monde, TVE Internacional, RTP Internacional, TV Chile, Rai Italia or RTR-Planeta, and broadcast through subscription TV providers around the world.

The purpose of NHK World Premium is to make original, general television content produced by NHK available to an international audience. It provides a mixture of news, sports and entertainment shows in Japanese language, all of which are simulcast or previously shown on NHK's domestic TV networks in Japan (NHK G, NHK E, NHK BS, NHK BS Premium 4K, and NHK BS8K).

The service is marketed as a pay satellite or cable TV channel with that name across Asia Pacific, Africa (Except North Africa Arabic Speaking Countries) & Latin America (South, Middle, Caribbean). In Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the service is broadcast via the streaming provider toober.com and other pay TV operators (Cable and Satellite), after JSTV ceased transmission on October 31, 2023, and in North America, it is broadcast via the streaming provider Jme after TV Japan closed on March 31, 2024. Contents generally do not carry English subtitles or dubbing, while a few of them, especially news, have bilingual audio (a feature kept from their original, domestic broadcast in Japan, where it is offered as well for Newscast Only).

Content restrictions

Some content, especially footage of sporting events, is blocked from the channel due to copyright restrictions, as NHK only holds the rights within Japan. The footage is replaced by either a still graphic from the channel or, in the case of sporting events, still photographs, though in early years it was limited to a black screen with the blocking message superimposed.

Programmes

Food (carry Fod listed as BBC Japan)
AKB48 Show!
Everyday Tips
Fudoki
Fun with English
Go Focus
Good Morning, Japan
International News Report
The JFA Emperor's Cup Show!
Mini Program
Morning Market
News (carry news from NHK General TV)
News & Weather (from NHK General TV)
News Watch 9
NHK News (carry news from NHK BS 1 which usually airs at 50 minutes past the hour)
NHK News 7
NHK Premap (program highlights)
Nippon Professional Baseball
Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Science for Everyone
Shounen Club
Sports Plus
Utacon
With Mother
World Weather

Internet service

NHK World Premium programs and contents are available online but for the linear channel, which mostly aired NHK titles including live events, were available on selected countries, including Asian countries outside Japan. Following the termination of the European satellite service JSTV, on October 31, 2023, NHK World Premium is now available in Europe as an Internet broadcast offered via toober. Meanwhile in North America, following the closure of TV Japan, they moved most of TV Japan titles to their streaming platform , which include NHK World Premium and Jme Select, which resemble the similarity to their former TV Japan linear channel.

References

(February 2024). "Termination of TV JAPAN Service". NHK Cosmomedia America.
"Satellite Commentary: Japanese Satellite Broadcast for Overseas".

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