is a Japanese television and radio broadcaster in Okayama and Kagawa. The abbreviation, RSK originates in the former name in Japanese (ラジオ山陽株式会社, Radio San'yō Kabushikigaisha). It is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN), and Japan News Network (JNN).

Due to its connections with flagship TBS, RSK joined JRN as one of its first members of the network on May 2, 1965, making Sanyo Hōsō a JRN-only station, serving on the Okayama part of the market. In October 1997, after years of being a single JRN affiliate, RSK joined NRN, becoming the last radio station to join the network, expanding its programming with All Night Nippon and NPB games. RNC, initially an NRN-only affiliate, joining JRN on the same year, serving only the Kagawa part of the market, making RSK Radio the default JRN-NRN station for the entire Okayama prefecture.

History

In 1952, against the background of an upsurge in applications for the establishment of private broadcasting across Japan, there was also a movement in the political and financial circles of Okayama Prefecture to request the establishment of private broadcasting. On November 1 of the same year, Sanyo Shimbun, Okayama Prefectural Government, Okayama City Government, and Tenmanya held the first founders' meeting of Radio Sanyo (ラジジオ山陽), and submitted an application for the establishment of private broadcasting to the Ministry of Post and Post on November 29, and began preparations for the establishment of Radio Sanyo. In 2012, RSK closed its Cairo branch.

In 2017, Sanyo Broadcasting purchased the land of Korakukan Middle School from Okayama City for the construction of a new headquarters. On July 22, 2020, the new headquarters of RSK Sanyo Broadcasting was completed. The building has 5 floors above ground and 1 floor underground, with a total floor area of 11,421 square meters. There is also a concert hall on the first floor. The relief sculpture "Leap Forward" by artist Taro Okamoto has also been moved to the new headquarters. RSK was expected to open its new headquarters in 2021. In May 2018, Sanyo Broadcasting announced its plan to establish a broadcast holding company. On April 1, 2019, after completing the legal procedures and obtaining approval from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Sanyo Broadcasting rebranded to RSK Holdings, and the radio and television business was inherited by the newly established RSK Sanyo Broadcasting. RSK Sanyo Broadcasting thus became the 10th broadcasting holding company in Japan and the first broadcasting holding company outside the main five regions (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido).

Supplement

  • Though the number of employees is a few, this broadcasting station has the first NETA in the whole country, and is putting in power to NETA of national advance.
  • It applied for license of the first FM broadcast in commercial broadcasting at the time of the end of the 1950s. (It became license withdrawal 1970)
  • The local evening news program "the San-yo TV evening news" in the evening was started on RSK television in 1971. (the first in the measure of composing a local news in the evening, and the whole country)
  • 1980, according to the inside of area, the frequency of RSK radio is unified into 1494 kHz, and will become the same frequency broadcast. (the first in the example of the same frequency broadcast in area of a radio station, and the whole country)
  • The Okayama office and the Takahashi office of RSK radio changed to a stereophonic broadcast from monophonic broadcast in October, 1992 (the first stereophonic broadcast in a relay station of a radio station, the key station and several relay stations] in the whole country)
  • Since the affiliation network of RSK radio was only JRN till the autumn of 1997, the network of NRN was the form which the RNC radio (Nishinippon Broadcasting Corporation) of on-the-opposite-shore Kagawa covers.
  • However, the judgment considered to be disadvantageous for business as being related with this was struck by the organization after 1:00 at midnight on a weekday and Saturday of those days. Therefore, in the autumn of 1997, the network of the JRN program of the midnight of a weekday was closed and frame movement was carried out on Sunday etc. for broadcast of the all genre program of the midnight on Saturday. And "all night NIPPON" resulted in the broadcast start of the 35th game.
  • RSK radio was broadcasting slightly some programs of JFN(s), such as "Masaharu Fukuyama's SUZUKI Talking FM", until FM Okayama of JFN affiliation was opened in April, 1999.

Item

  • Sanyo News Paper

References

  • RSK HomePage