FM Haro! is an FM radio station based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka

Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It is the seventh "community FM radio station" opened in Japan. Broadcasting area is roughly bounded by Kikugawa, Shizuoka and Omaezaki, Shizuoka in the east, and Toyohashi, Aichi and Shinshiro, Aichi in the west. It is operating 7x24 hour, but more than a half of the entire programs are re-broadcasting of J-Wave

J-Wave

J-Wave is a commercial radio station based in Tokyo, Japan, broadcasting on 81.3 FM from the Tokyo Tower to the Tokyo area. J-Wave airs mostly music covering a wide range of formats. The station is considered the most popular among FM broadcasts in Tokyo, and has surprised the radio broadcast...

 and MUSIC BIRD.

History

FM Haro! had started broadcasting in Hamamatsu as a mini FM radio station with the very low output power to qualify as a community FM radio station, but it increased the output power to 20 watt in 2000 and moved the antenna to Act Tower, the tallest building in Hamamatsu, in April 2004, resulting in much wider broadcasting area.

Features

• Concept of the station is "navigating the comfortable life in the area." The majority of the programs target ages between 20s and 40s. The station broadcasted a Jubilo Iwata
  Júbilo Iwata
  is a professional Japanese association football team currently playing in the J. League Division 1 . The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Portuguese and Spanish. The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium...
  
  's soccer game (J-League away game), Rugby (the top league away / home game) concerning the tournament.
• FM Haro! has been actively interchanging programs with FM Toyohashi
  FM Toyohashi
  is a community FM radio station in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is the third "community FM radio station" opened in Japan. Its broadcast reach an area roughly bounded by Hamamatsu, Shizuoka in the east, and Gamagori and Shinshiro, Aichi in the west...
  
   in Toyohashi, Aichi and Iida FM in Iida
  Iida, Nagano
  is a city located in southern Nagano Prefecture, Japan.Located on the Iida Line, an old local train line that runs through the valley of the Tenryū River in the southern Japan Alps, Iida lies 90 minutes northeast of the major city of Nagoya by automobile via the Chūō Expressway...
  
  , Nagano
  Nagano Prefecture
  is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...
  
  . Personalities and staff in three stations being even in all, there are also times when release live program is done.

Time table

Weekday

• 7:00-9:00 Morning Splash
• 11:30-14:00 Boogie Woogie Master
• 14:00-17:00 Precious Moments
• 17:00-20:00 Evening Web
• 11:30-16:50 Shizuka Suzuki's Friday Radio (Friday only)
• 24:00-24:30 φWave Radio (Friday only)

Saturday

• 8:00-9:00 Radio Forum Hamamatsu (Re-broadcast)
• 12:00-12:30 Takao Ito's in small song pulling the hand
• 13:00-17:00 SOUND EVOLUTION

Sunday

• 9:00-10:00 Radio Forum Hamamatsu
• 13:00-17:00 SUNDAY HOT WORLD

External links

• FM Haro!'s website in Japanese
• MUSIC BIRD's website in Japanese