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 Headquarters inAkasaka,Minato, Tokyo | |
Native name | 株式会社スカパーJSATホールディングス |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Sukapā JEISATTO Hōrudingusu |
| Formerly | Sky Prefect JSAT Corporation (2007-2008) |
| Company type | PublicKK |
| TYO:9412 | |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Predecessors | JSAT Corporation Sky Perfect Communications, Inc. |
| Founded | April 2, 2007 (by merger) |
| Headquarters | Minato,Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Shinji Takada, President |
| Products | Fixed service satellite Direct broadcast satellite Pay TV |
| Revenue | JPY 163.2 bn (FY14) |
| JPY 13.5 bn (FY14) | |
| Owner | Major owners: Itochu Fuji Partners (22.2%; Joint venture betweenItochu (63%) andFuji Media Holdings (37%)) NTT Communications (7.6%) Sumitomo Corporation (6.5%) Nippon TV (6.1%) TBS (5.3%) |
Number of employees | 808[1] (2016) |
| Subsidiaries | SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation OptiCast Inc. JSAT International Inc. Satellite Network, Inc. (92%) Cable Television Adachi Corp. (77.3%) SKY Perfect Mobile Inc. SKY Perfect Well Think, Co.Ltd. Data Network Center Corporation (51%) JSAT MOBILE Communications (53.3%) SKY Perfect Pictures (83%) |
| Website | www |
TheSKY Perfect JSAT Group is a Japanese corporate group that claims to be Asia's largest satellite communication and multi-channel pay TV company.[2] It owns theSKY PerfecTV! satellite broadcasting service and theSKY Perfect Well Think content studio, among other businesses.
SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. (株式会社スカパーJSATホールディングス,Kabushiki-gaisha Sukapā JSAT Holdings) (TYO:9412) is theholding company for the group, and holds 100% of the shares ofSKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (スカパーJSAT株式会社,Sukapā JSAT Kabushiki-gaisha), the group's main operating company.
The space and satellite business of the group dates to 1985, when its three predecessor companies were formed:Japan Communications Satellite Company (JCSC),Space Communications Corporation (SCC) andSatellite Japan Corporation (SJC).JCSAT-1, Japan's first private-sector communications satellite, was launched in 1989. JCSC and SJC merged in 1993, becomingJapan Satellite Systems, which changed its name toJSAT Corporation in 2000. JSAT was listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange in the same year. SCC was acquired by the Sky Perfect JSAT Group in 2008.[3][4][5][6]
Thepay TV business of the group dates to 1994, whenJapan Digital Broadcast Service was founded (under the temporary name "DMC Planning"). It began the PerfecTV! pay TV service in 1996. Japan Sky Broadcasting ("JSkyB") was founded in 1996 and merged with JDBS in 1998. In 2000 it acquired the Japan business ofDirecTV.[3]
JSAT and SKY Perfect transferred their stock to a joint holding company,SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, on April 2, 2007. SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation changed its name toSKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. on June 27, 2008. The SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation name was re-adopted by JSAT Corporation, SKY Perfect Communications and Space Communications Corporation when they merged on October 1, 2008.[3][4][5][6]
In response to the rapidly expanding global Japanese animation market, SKY Perfect Pictures was established. This new company will be primarily focuses on planning, production investment, and sales of anime and related video content to capitalize on this expanding market. It started as an internal division within SKY Perfect JSAT. But to accelerate development of this business segment On April 1, 2024 the internal division was spun-off as a separate entity within the group and ITOCHU Corporation also invested in this new company to support its growth and also expand in the animation industry.[7]
In this new company, SKY Perfect JSAT holds an 83% ownership stake, while ITOCHU Corporation owns the remaining 17%[8]
TheJSAT constellation is acommunication andbroadcastingsatellite constellation currently operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Group. It has become the most important commercial constellation in Japan, and the fifth of the world. It has practically amalgamated all private satellite operators in Japan, with onlyB-SAT left as a local competitor.[3][4]
It began in 1985 with the opening of the communication markets in Japan and the founding ofJapan Communications Satellite Company,Satellite Japan Corporation,Space Communications Corporation. It grew by own investment, mergers and acquisitions of the parent companies. As of August 2016, it includes the fleets of three previously mentioned companies,Horizons Satellite andNTT DoCoMo and theDSN military network.[3][4][9][10][11]