BS-TBS

Channels

• Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.
• Radio: BS-i had been assigned 461ch, 462ch, and was closed on September 30, 2005. - TBS Radio & Communications had been produced.
• Data: BS-TBS is assigned BS766ch, BS768ch, but BS768ch is not being used now.

  History

• November, 1998 - Japan Digital Communications, Incorporated founded.
• June, 2000 - JDC was renamed BS-i, Incorporated.
• December 1, 2000 - BS-i started broadcasting.
• July, 2004 - BS-i moved its headquarters from TBS Hoso Kaikan to TBS Broadcast Center 15th fl.
• September 30, 2005 - BS-i closed satellite radio broadcasting.
• April 1, 2009 - BS-i, Incorporated was renamed to its current name BS-TBS, Incorporated.

  Programs

• General programs
• *A number of programs which TBS broadcast are broadcast also on BS-TBS.
• Anime programs
• *Anime produced by BS-TBS are popular among anime fans because the regulation of expression on satellite broadcasting is looser than on terrestrial broadcasting.
• *On TBS, in order to adjust size, most 16:9 anime is cropped on the left and right. They are broadcast on BS-TBS in their original form.
• **These are anime programs exclusively broadcast on BS-TBS:
• ***Air
• ***Cyber Team in Akihabara
• ***Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma
• ***He Is My Master
• ***Kanon
• ***Little Snow Fairy Sugar
• ***Mahoromatic
• ***Popotan
• ***This Ugly and Beautiful World
• ***Yumeria
• **These are anime programs broadcast on both TBS and BS-TBS:
• ***Oh My Goddess!
• ***Bincho-tan
• ***BLACK CAT
• ***Chobits
• ***Heat Guy J
• ***Ichigo Mashimaro
• ***Melody of Oblivion
• ***REC
• ***Rozen Maiden
• ***Rozen Maiden Traumend
• ***Clannad
• ***Clannad -After Story-
• ***Tsukihime, Lunar Legend
• ***K-On!
• ***Sankarea
• ***Acchi Kocchi