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The building where the branch operates (February 2010)

The NHK Sasebo Branch (NHK佐世保支局, NHK Nagasaki Shikyoku) is a division of the NHK Nagasaki Broadcasting Station which is in charge of news gathering operations in Sasebo and the northern half of Nagasaki Prefecture. It used to operate a full radio and television service until 1991.

History

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The station started broadcasting in 1946 using the JOAT callsign. Radio 2 used the JOAY callsign. At an unknown date, NHK had the callsigns realigned. JOAT became JOAQ and JOAY became JOAZ.[1] Television broadcasts started in 1958, the same year as the station in Nagasaki.[2]

On March 1, 1965, it started relaying JOAG-FM from Nagasaki.[3]

The station was demoted from a broadcasting station to a branch in 1991, being relocated to a rented office in Motomachi. The former building was transferred to city control after the removal of the tower, the antennas and the transmitting equipment. From 1996, it was used as a building for the Fureai Center, but closed in January 2015 due to deterioration.[4]

Long after the end of local programming, the NHK digital terrestrial transmitter network reached Sasebo on April 1, 2007, exactly two months before the commercial networks. NHK G broadcasts on UHF channel 42 and NHK E on UHF channel 40.[5]

References

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  1. ^ 地上波放送局 コールサイン(呼出符号) 一覧 【現割当 ＋ 廃止局版】
  2. ^ 佐世保市の歴史
  3. ^ NHK長崎放送局FM放送佐世保中継局・無線局免許状 - 総務省
  4. ^ "佐世保社協だより第118号" (PDF). 社会福祉法人佐世保市社会福祉協議会. p. 2. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
  5. ^ 長崎県の開局済みのデジタル親局、及びデジタル中継局 - 総務省九州総合通信局
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