The club evolution of TBS TV station in Japan

On May 17th, 1951, Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency and production company, registered and established "Tokyo Radio Co., Ltd." (Tokyo), with its head office located in Xiaguan, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and its first president as Zuli Li.

On December 25th, 1951, the broadcasting service was started in the "Daily New Pavilion" in Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

in December, 1953, the company abbreviation of "KRT" (Kabusikigaisha Radio Tokyo) was started.

on April 1st, 1955, the TV broadcasting service was started in Akasaka, the port area of Tokyo. The station name was "KR TV" and the call sign was "JOKR-TV".

on August 1st, 1959, in order to compete with Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), which owns a national television network, to broadcast the marriage of the Crown Prince of Japan (that is, Emperor Akihito today), under the leadership of KRT, Japan's first television broadcast network ──JNN(Japan News Network) was established.

on September 1th, 196, color TV started broadcasting.

in October p>196, it was listed in the first part of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

on November 29th, 196, the company name was changed to Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc (TBS for short).

in August, 1961, the English handwritten trademark with radio waves as its main image was launched, which was designed by Imado Runsan and produced by Ichikawa.

in September, 1961, "the three primary colors of light" (blue, green and red) were taken as the representative colors; Blue symbolizes "ability", green symbolizes "enthusiasm" and red symbolizes "responsibility". In October 1961, the company's flag and logo were formulated with "the three primary colors of light".

On October 12th, 1961, the "TBS Hall" on the east side of the Photography Building was completed, and the headquarters and studio were moved from the Photography Building to the TBS Hall within two months. TBS Hall * * * has 9 floors above ground and 1 floor underground.

on December 1st, 1961, the company was called "TBS".

on may 2, 1965, the broadcast network "jrn" (Japan radio network) was established.

In p>1969, the live broadcast of "Japanese Record Awards" (Hui! Japan レコード) has become a signature TV program at the end of each year.

in March, 1981, the Green Mountain Film and Television Base (Green Mountain? シティ) completed.

On September 3th, 1991, the enterprise identification system (CIS) was launched, and the English handwritten trademark was abolished, but the variety show Dream Press Company (ドリーム? プレス) continued to use English handwritten trademarks until March 2, 29, when the program stopped broadcasting, and the English handwritten trademarks officially entered history.

in March, 1994, the headquarters was moved from TBS Hall to "TBS Broadcasting Center" in Akasaka.

At 1: am on October 3rd, 1994, the studio of TBS Club was closed and moved to the 8th to 9th floors of TBS Broadcasting Center. After removing all the equipment of the radio broadcasting business, TBS Hall was renamed "Akasaka Media Building" (Akasaka メディァビル) for use by TBS related enterprises.

on April 1st, 1998, the communication satellite (CS) TV channel "JNN News Bird" was launched. In the same year, The TBS store opened on the 1st floor of Akasaka Media Club.

in February, 2, the unified logo of TBS group, JNN and TBS broadcasting network was put into use.

on March 21st, 2, the radio broadcasting business was independently established as TBS Broadcasting and Information Company (TBS ラジォ&: コミュニケーションズ), the TV entertainment production business is independent of TBS Entertainment (TBS ェンタティィ, a joint-stock company)

at 11: a.m. on December 1st, 2, the broadcast satellite (BS) TV channel "BS-i" was launched, with its headquarters in TBS Hall.

on March 1st, 21, the production business of intelligence programs was independently TBS Live (TBSライブ).

on October 1st, 21, the radio broadcasting business was inherited by the subsidiary "TBS Broadcasting and Information Company". The call sign of TBS TV channel was changed to "JORX-TV", and its channel name was also changed from "Tokyo Broadcasting" to "TBS TV Station" (TBSテレビジョン).

on July 1st, 22, the CS TV channel "TBS Channel" was launched.

In March, 23, TBS Hall was permanently closed and demolished. On July 1st, 23, the group member "Muxia Production Company" (the company Muxia プロダクションン) was renamed as "DREAMAX TV" (the company ドリマッ) テレビジョン), becoming a subsidiary of TBS.

on December 1st, 23, at 11: am, the terrestrial digital TV channel JORX-DTV was launched.

in October p>24, TBS entertainment merged TBS sports and TBS Live, and changed its name to "TBS TV" (TBSテレビ, a joint-stock company).

On October 13th, 25, Lotte Co., Ltd., a large Japanese network company, announced that it held 15.46% of the shares of TBS, and planned to merge, but it was resisted by TBS. Finally, on November 28 of the same year, the two sides reconciled and changed to the direction of cooperation.

on November 1st, 25, the video-on-demand service "TBS BooBo BOX" started.

on April 1st, 26, in response to the digitalization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "JNN News Bird" was renamed "TBS News Bird".

on March 2th, 28, the demolished and rebuilt "Akasaka Sacas" of TBS Hall was completed and opened.

on September 1st, 28, "TBS BooBo BOX" was changed to "TBS on-demand" (TBS ォンデマンド).

on April 1st, 29, Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation was renamed as "Tokyo Broadcasting Holding Co., Ltd." (Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation "Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation" "), becoming the second media in Japan to implement the system of" recognizing the broadcasting company ". In addition, "BS-i" was also renamed as "BS-TBS".

On July 24th, 211, the digitalization on the ground ended, and the TBS analog TV channel (JORX-TV) officially stopped broadcasting.