Tokyo Broadcasting System


, TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of a television network named TBS Television and radio network named TBS Radio & Communications.
TBS Television, Inc. has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN which TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. has.
TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show and is also the home to the many Ultra Series programs and Sasuke, whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan.
Despite affiliation with the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the newspaper's publisher is not the largest shareholder in TBSHD nor the Mainichi Broadcasting System's holding company MBS Media Holdings, TBSHD's second-largest shareholder.

Offices

;Holdings
;Broadcasting
;Real Estate Businesses
TBSHD is also the largest single shareholder of Tokyo Electron.

History of TBS

Analog

JORX-TV - TBS Television
;Islands in Tokyo
;Ibaraki Prefecture
;Tochigi Prefecture
;Gunma Prefecture
;Saitama Prefecture
;Chiba Prefecture
;Kanagawa Prefecture

Digital

JORX-DTV - TBS Digital Television
...among others.

Announcers

Programs

Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.

Violation of the protection of sources

TBS is notoriously known for intentionally violating protection of sources in October 1989. In that month of that year, the Tokyo Broadcasting System taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto regarding his efforts to unveil the deceptive dogmas of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect. However, the network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge, intentionally breaking its protection of sources. Aum officials then pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto, his wife and child was murdered by the members after a few days, on the 3rd of November. This makes TBS indirectly responsible for a homicide of three persons who combated the dangerous sect and attempted to bring the attention of the public to the everyday human rights violations taking place within that sect.