Tokyo Broadcasting System

   

ja:東京放送 zh:東京放送

Tokyo Broadcasting System (東京放送 Tōkyō Hōsō, commonly referred to as TBS) is a television and radio network in Japan.

The company was founded in May, 1951 with the name, "Radio Tokyo" (ラジオ東京), started television broadcasting in 1955, was renamed to the present name in 1960. The company has a 28-affiliate news network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN (Japan Radio Network).

The network produces the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast in Germany (DSF), Britain (Challenge), and the United States (Spike TV, under the name MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge).

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See also: Television station


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