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TBS Holdings, Inc.,[a] (formerlyTokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.,[b]) is a Japanese media and licensed broadcastingholding company. It is the parent company of thetelevision networkTBS Television and radio networkTBS Radio. It has a 28-affiliate television network calledJapan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network calledJapan Radio Network.
Former TBS logos used from August 1961 to September 1991, and from January 1994 to March 2020, both the same black-colored of the classicCBS logo[citation needed]
May 1951 - Radio Tokyo (株式会社ラジオ東京; KRT, the predecessor of TBS) was founded inKasumigaseki inChiyoda, Tokyo
December 25, 1951 - KRT started radio broadcasting (1130 kHz, 50 kW, until July 1953) fromYurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the frequency changed to 950 kHz.
1989 - TBS became culpable in theSakamoto family murder byAum Shinrikyo, resulting in complaints against the network after the case was solved several years later.[1]
October 19, 1990 - The last-ever episode of Takeshi's Castle was broadcast on TBS.
September 20, 1991 - TBS enters into an agreement withCBS News in the U.S. for newscasts and satellite relays.
October 3, 1994 - The present headquarters, TBS Broadcasting Center, were completed next to the old headquarters (later renamed as Akasaka Media Building until its demolition in 2003). It is called "Big Hat (ビッグハット)". Nine months later a third logo was unveiled.
April 1, 1998 - JNN News Bird starts broadcasting and in 2006, the channel was renamed TBS News Bird.
February 2000 - TBS adopts a symbol based on the Kanji symbol for "person".
March 21, 2000 - TBS foundedTBS Radio & Communications Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ラジオ・アンド・コミュニケーションズ→株式会社TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ), TBS Entertainment Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・エンタテインメント), and TBS Sports Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・スポーツ), and began TBS Live Inc. (株式会社ティ・ビー・エス・ライブ) the next day. On October 1, 2001, TBS changed both the name of the radio station to TBS Radio & Communications, and the callsign of TV station (JOKR-TV → JORX-TV).
July 1, 2002 -TBS ch. begins broadcasting on pay television.
October 1, 2004 - TBS Entertainment merged TBS Sports and TBS Live changing the corporate name to Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (株式会社TBSテレビ).
October 13, 2005 -Rakuten Inc. announced that it bought 15.46 percent stake in TBS, bringing it up to 19%.
After over a month and a half of worries over a possiblehostile takeover, Rakuten withdrew its bid for TBS on December 1 and planned to form a business alliance with the broadcast company instead.
April 1, 2006 - Digital terrestrial broadcasts commence.
April 1, 2009 - TBS became a certified broadcast holding company named Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.. Its TV broadcasting and other operations were taken over by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. and the letters TBS were used for the abbreviation of the subsidiary company.
December 1, 2011 - TBS sold theYokohama BayStars, aNippon Professional Baseball team toDeNA. DeNA bought 66.92 percent of the team's stock for 6.5 billion yen from TBS. TBS retained a 2.31 percent ownership stake in the team.[2]
April 1, 2016 - TBS Holdings subsidiary, TBS Radio and Communications renamedTBS Radio
April 1, 2020 - After 26 years, TBS unveils an updated logo.
October 1, 2020: Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. was renamed as TBS Holdings, Inc., to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the company since 1950.
TBS was accused of failing toprotect its sources in October 1989, when it taped an interview withTsutsumi Sakamoto about him investigating theAum Shinrikyo sect. The network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge. Aum officials pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto, his wife, and child were murdered by Aum members on 3 November.[3]
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