Mass media in Saitama Prefecture
Encyclopedia
This article lists and describes the features of mass media
based in Saitama Prefecture
of Japan
. Most are based in the capital and most populous city Saitama City
's Urawa ward
. Unless mentioned otherwise the language is
Japanese
.
Like other parts of Kantō region
incorporating the Greater Tokyo Area
, media based in Tokyo
dominate the attention of the residents. Tokyo's major radio and television stations are licensed to cover the whole Kantō region. See Japanese media
for them. They have larger readership or rates than the locally based media.
http://www.saitama-np.co.jp/ is headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama. It has strong readership among local governments, their suppliers and employees.
Major national daily general newspapers Yomiuri
, Asahi
, Mainichi
, Sankei
, and the metropolitan paper Tokyo Shimbun
have branch offices and correspondents in the prefecture. Prefecture or area-specific pages are inserted in those wide-area papers.
79.5 MHz, Chichibu relay 77.5 MHz) is a commercial station headquartered in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
. (85.1 MHz, Chichibu relay 83.5 MHz) transmits some scheduled programming produced in Urawa-ku, Saitama to insert between ones produced in Tokyo.
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
based in Saitama Prefecture
Saitama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...
of 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...
. Most are based in the capital and most populous city Saitama City
Saitama, Saitama
' is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture in Japan, situated in the south-east of the prefecture. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance...
's Urawa ward
Urawa-ku, Saitama
is a ward of Saitama City, Japan. It is surrounded by Midori-ku , Minami-ku , Chūō-ku , Ōmiya-ku , and Minuma-ku of Saitama city....
. Unless mentioned otherwise the language is
Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
.
Like other parts of Kantō region
Kanto region
The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 40 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain....
incorporating the Greater Tokyo Area
Greater Tokyo Area
The Greater Tokyo Area is a large metropolitan area in Kantō region, Japan, consisting of most of the prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tokyo . In Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, including the , , and others....
, media based in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
dominate the attention of the residents. Tokyo's major radio and television stations are licensed to cover the whole Kantō region. See Japanese media
Japanese media
The communications media of Japan include numerous television and radio networks as well as newspapers and magazines in Japan. For the most part, television networks were established based on the capital contribution from existing radio networks at that time...
for them. They have larger readership or rates than the locally based media.
Newspapers
The below are about paid daily newspapers. There are less frequently published community papers and magazines.http://www.saitama-np.co.jp/ is headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama. It has strong readership among local governments, their suppliers and employees.
Major national daily general newspapers Yomiuri
Yomiuri Shimbun
The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun...
, Asahi
Asahi Shimbun
The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
, Mainichi
Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by .-History:The history of the Mainichi Shimbun begins with founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun was founded first, in 1872. The Mainichi claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper...
, Sankei
Sankei Shimbun
is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the . It has the sixth highest circulation for a newspaper in Japan, and is considered as one of the five "national" newspapers...
, and the metropolitan paper Tokyo Shimbun
Tokyo Shimbun
The Tokyo Shimbun is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area. The group’s combined daily morning...
have branch offices and correspondents in the prefecture. Prefecture or area-specific pages are inserted in those wide-area papers.
Broadcasting
The below are stations whose licensed area of coverage is the whole or the most of Saitama Prefecture.Television
- TeletamaTelevision Saitamaabbreviated TVS, doing business as is a Japanese fee-free terrestrial commercial television broadcasting company headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its intended coverage is Saitama Prefecture but with some spill-overs in surrounding prefectures...
or Television Saitama (analogue ch38, digital ch32) is a commercial station headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama and serves the prefecture. - NHKNHKNHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
the national public broadcaster has in Urawa-ku, Saitama. It has a news gathering base and a television studio but they are to feed contents for programming produced in Tokyo.
Prefectural service
http://www.nack5.co.jp/ (FMFM broadcasting in Japan
The frequency modulation radio broadcast band in Japan is 76-90 MHz. The 90-108 MHz section is used for television for VHF Channels 1,2 and 3. The narrowness of the Japanese band limits the number of FM stations that can be accommodated on the dial.-Receiver issues:Many Japanese radios are...
79.5 MHz, Chichibu relay 77.5 MHz) is a commercial station headquartered in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
Omiya-ku, Saitama
is a ward of Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is in the Greater Tokyo Area and about 25 km north of central Tokyo. Ōmiya-ku is surrounded by Nishi-ku , Kita-ku , Minuma-ku , Urawa-ku , Chūō-ku , and Sakura-ku of Saitama city.Ōmiya-ku is the most active commercial and business centre in...
. (85.1 MHz, Chichibu relay 83.5 MHz) transmits some scheduled programming produced in Urawa-ku, Saitama to insert between ones produced in Tokyo.
Community service
- FM Urawa (nicknamed Reds Wave, FM 78.3 MHz) http://redswave.com/ in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Flower Radio (FM 76.7 MHz) http://www.fm767.com/ in Kōnosu and FM-Chappy (FM 77.7 MHz) http://www.fmchappy.jp/ in IrumaIruma, Saitamais a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 149,269 and a population density of 3,340 persons per km². The total area is 44.74 km². The city consists of 6 areas, Toyooka, Kaneko, Higashikaneko, Fujisawa, Miyadera-Nihongi, and...
, Smile FM in AsakaAsaka, Saitamais a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It was named in 1932 after Prince Asaka who was an honorary chairman of the Tokyo Golf Club, which relocated to the area at that time. Asaka town became a city on March 15, 1967....
http://www.fm767.net/ (FM 76.7 MHz) are community stations.
Not quite Saitaman services
Broadcasting services that may be available but not appropriate as the Saitama Prefecture's media includes:- Cable televisionCable televisionCable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
and cable radioCable radioCable radio or cable FM is a concept similar to that of cable television, bringing radio signals into homes and businesses via coaxial cable. It is generally used as cable TV was in its early days when it was "community antenna television", to enhance the quality of terrestrial radio signals that...
are available in many areas in the prefecture. They often have non-Japanese channels and / or programs. They occasionally broadcast locally-produced programs. See :ja:ケーブルテレビ局の一覧#埼玉県 and :ja:有線ラジオ放送 for the list. - InterFMInterFM-See also:*The Japan Times* *TV Tokyo...
, a multilingual commercial station (FM 76.1 MHz) based in Tokyo officially serves Saitama City also. - Tokyo's major radio and television stations which are licensed to cover the whole Kantō region. See Japanese mediaJapanese mediaThe communications media of Japan include numerous television and radio networks as well as newspapers and magazines in Japan. For the most part, television networks were established based on the capital contribution from existing radio networks at that time...
for them. The television stations offer English interpretation upon some news programs. - Japanese domestic satellite television, satellite radio MobaHo!MobaHo!MobaHO! was a mobile satellite digital audio/video broadcasting service in Japan, whose services began on 20 October 2004 and ended on March 31, 2009 at 15:00. MobaHO! used digital broadcasting specification of ISDB...
and shortwave Radio NikkeiRadio Nikkeiis Japan's domestic shortwave commercial radio broadcasting station headquartered in 9-15 Akasaka 1-chōme, Minato, Tokyo.-Features:* It is Japan's only domestic shortwave broadcasting station....
are meant to cover whole Japan. The former two offer channels in languages other than Japanese. - The Open University of Japan broadcasting on television and radio in Japanese, produced in Chiba cityChiba, Chibais the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000....
. - Stations based in and intended to cover nearby prefectures. These include American Forces Network (810 kHz) English languageEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
AM radio transmitted from Wakō, SaitamaWako, Saitamais a city located in the southern part of Saitama, Japan, bordering on Tokyo.As of 1 May 2008, the city has an estimated population of 76,221. The total area is 11.04 km²....
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