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{{Short description|Japanese broadcasting station}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = RKB Mainichi Holdings Corporation
| logo = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting logo 2005.svg
| logo_size = 170px
| image = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Hall 20160426.JPG
| trading_name = RKB 
| native_name = 株式会社RKB毎日ホールディングス
| traded_as = {{Fukuoka Stock Exchange|9407}}
| romanized_name =Kabushikigaisha RKB Mainichi hōrudingusu
| former_names = Radio Kyushu Co., Ltd. (1951-1958)<br>RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation (1958-2016)
| type = [[Public company|Public]] [[Kabushiki gaisha|KK]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1951|06|29}}<br>(as Radio Kyushu Broadcasting)<br>{{Start date and age|1958|08|01}} (as RKB Mainichi Broadcasting)
| key_people = Ryoji Inoue (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Holdings)<br>Izumi Sato (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Broadcasting)
| location = 2-3-8 Momochihama
| hq_location_city = [[Sawara-ku, Fukuoka|Sawara-ku]], [[Fukuoka|Fukuoka City]], [[Fukuoka Prefecture]]
| hq_location_country = Japan
| industry = [[Media (communication)|Media]]
| owner = [[MBS Media Holdings]] (90.3%)<br>The Mainichi Newspapers (8.63%)<br>[[TBS Holdings]] (6.38%)
| website = {{URL|https://rkb.jp/holdings}}
| subsid = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting
| footnotes = Data from its [https://rkb.jp/company/about/ Corporate Profile]
}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = JOFO
| city = Fukuoka
| area = Fukuoka Prefecture
| logo = RKB radio logo.png
| branding = RKB Radio
| language = Japanese
| affiliations = [[Japan Radio Network|Japan Radio Network]]
| format = [[Talk radio|Talk]]/[[Sports radio|Sports]]
| frequency = {{Frequency|1278|kHz}} (AM); {{Frequency|91.0|MHz}} (FM)
| owner = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation
| callsign_meaning = '''JO''' '''F'''ukuoka '''R'''adio  <br> or <br> '''F'''ou'''R''' (channel number)<!--do not put the callsign onto the TV infobox, this also applies to the radio division -->
| licensing_authority = [[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications|MIC]]
| website = {{url|https://rkb.jp/radio_top/}}
}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = JOFR-DTV<br>JOFO-TV (defunct)
| image = 
| location = Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
| city = Fukuoka
| branding = RKB Television
| digital = 30 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 4
| affiliations = [[Japan News Network]]
| owner = RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1958|03|01}} 
| last_airdate = {{Start date and age|2011|07|24}} (JOFO-TV)
| sister_stations = 
| former_callsigns = JOFR-TV (1958–2011)
| former_channel_numbers = 4 (analog VHF, 1958–2011)<br>JOFO-TV:<br>8 (analog VHF, 1958–2011)
| former_affiliations = [[Nippon Television|NTV]]/[[Nippon News Network|NNN]] (secondary, 1964-1969)
| erp = 
| haat = 
| class = 
| facility_id = 
| coordinates = {{coord|33|35|34.285|N|130|21|3.161|E|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = MIC
| website ={{url|https://rkb.jp/tv_top/}}
| embedded = {{Infobox company | embed = yes
| name =RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation
| native_name = RKB毎日放送株式会社
| native_name_lang = ja
| type = [[Subsidiary]] 
| foundation = {{start date and age|2015|9|29}}<br>(as RKB Mainichi Division Preparation Corporation)
| key_people = 
| location = Fukuoka, Japan
| industry = Radio and television network
| owner = RKB Mainichi Holdings
| subsid = 
| website = {{url|https://rkb.jp/}}
}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation'''|RKB毎日放送株式会社|RKB Mainichi Hōsō [[Kabushiki Gaisha]]}} (stylized as '''''{{sup|+}}rkb''''') is a broadcasting station located in [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]], [[Japan]]. It is affiliated with the [[Japan Radio Network]] (JRN) and the [[Japan News Network]] (JNN). The company is owned by the [[MBS Media Holdings]], [[Mainichi Shimbun]], and the [[Taro Aso|Aso Group]].

The initials '''RKB''' stand for {{nihongo|'''R'''adio '''K'''yushu '''B'''roadcasting|ラジオ九州放送|Rajio [[Kyūshū]] Hōsō}}, the station's former name.<ref name="Lukács2010">{{cite book|author=Gabriella Lukács|title=Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gzQc9iKqIcC&pg=PT45|date=15 July 2010|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9323-8|page=35}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=放送十年 : RKB每日社史|publisher=RKB Mainichi Broadcasting|year=1962|location=Japan|language=ja|trans-title=10 Years of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting|oclc=881300518}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:RKB old logo.png|thumb|left|RKB Mainichi Broadcasting's pre-1979 logo]]
In 1950, following the enactment of the Radio Law, [[Mainichi Shimbun]] sought to establish three radio stations in Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Its application for the Tokyo area was later merged with those of other national newspapers and Dentsu, forming Radio Tokyo. In the Osaka area, Mainichi Shimbun applied to establish a station under the name New Japan Broadcasting (later renamed Mainichi Broadcasting), and in Fukuoka Prefecture, under the name '''Radio Kyushu'''.<ref name="shashi10">{{cite book |author={{lang|ja|RKB毎日放送株式会社社史編集委員会}}|script-title=ja:『放送十年 : RKB毎日社史』 |year=1962 |publisher={{lang|ja|RKB毎日放送}} |location=Fukuoka |isbn=}}{{NCID|BN06261126}} {{in lang|ja}}</ref>{{rp|12}} A license for JOFR was issued on 21 April 1951, and the company was formally established on 29 June. Radio Kyushu began operations on 1 December of the same year.

Radio Kyushu was one of the first 72 companies in Japan to apply for a license to establish a private radio station.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|10}} In addition to Mainichi Shimbun, Radio Kyushu received investment from local companies such as Nippon Steel and Kyushu Electric Power.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|16}} The headquarters was also located in Kyushu Electric Power's building.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|21}} On 12 April 1951, Radio Kyushu received a preliminary license,<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|10}} and on 7 October of the same year, it began trial broadcasting.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|39}} On 1 December, Radio Kyushu officially launched, becoming the first private radio station in Kyushu and the fourth private radio station in Japan.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|29}} In its first month of broadcasting, Radio Kyushu achieved a profit of 500,000 yen.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|44}} The station’s first-generation trademark was selected through an open competition in 1952. The designer was Hatano Yoshiko, a middle school student in Oita Prefecture.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|45}} In December 1952, Radio Kyushu established the Ogura broadcasting station, which became Japan's first privately owned radio relay station.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|98-99}} In July 1953, Radio Kyushu established a labor union.<ref name="shashi10"/>{{rp|41}}

RKB began television broadcasts on 1 March 1958. At the same time, the station merged with Mainichi Seibu Television (tentative call sign JOGX-TV, later reassigned in 2013 after CBC TV spun off). As a result, the planned JOGX station was launched as the Kitakyushu satellite station (JOFO-TV).

RKB began broadcasting a digital signal on 1 July 2006. The station ended its analog programming at noon on 24 July 2011, the date by which all television stations in Japan were required to discontinue analog broadcasts per federal mandate. Right before shutting off their analog broadcasts at 23:59, RKB aired a video montage showcasing its analog history, with [[Taro Hakase]]'s "The Cozy Bench" as the background music.<ref>Archived at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20240720001411/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-YU52d1xw Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-YU52d1xw | title =  RKB毎日放送アナログ放送停波前クロージング | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 18 March 2013 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Station==
===Radio===
*Fukuoka: 1278&nbsp;kHz JOFR 50&nbsp;kW; 91.0&nbsp;MHz FM
*Kitakyushu: 1197&nbsp;kHz JOFO 1&nbsp;kW; 91.5&nbsp;MHz FM
*Omuta: 1062&nbsp;kHz JOFE 100W; 94.8&nbsp;MHz FM
*Yukuhashi: 1062&nbsp;kHz 100W; 94.6&nbsp;MHz FM

===TV (Analog)===
*Fukuoka: Channel 4 JOFR-TV
*Kitakyushu :Channel 8 JOFO-TV
*Kurume: Channel 48 JOFC-TV
*Omuta: Channel 61
*Yukuhashi: Channel 60

===TV (Digital)===
*Button 4
*Fukuoka: Channel 30 JOFR-DTV

== Program ==
=== Anime ===
*''[[Bocchi the Rock!]]''
*''[[The Idolmaster]]''

=== TV ===
*Kyokan TV(13:55 - 15:50 every Monday To Friday)
*Kyokan News
*Watch@24
*Rkb+ Sunday Watch
*Tadaima!
*TEEN!TEEN!
*Mame Gohan。
*P Paradise  (about [[Pachinko]]).

==Other TV stations in Fukuoka==
* [[NHK]] Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
* [[Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting]] (KBC, {{lang|ja|[[:ja:九州朝日放送|九州朝日放送]]}}, affiliated with [[TV Asahi]] and [[All-Nippon News Network|ANN]]) - 1
* [[Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation]] (FBS, {{lang|ja|[[:ja:福岡放送|福岡放送]]}}, affiliated with [[Nippon TV|NTV]] and [[Nippon News Network|NNN]] / [[Nippon Television Network System|NNS]]) - 5
*[[TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting]] (TVQ, {{lang|ja|[[:ja:TVQ九州放送|TVQ九州放送]]}}, affiliated with [[TV Tokyo]] and [[TX Network]]) - 7
* [[Television Nishinippon Corporation]] (TNC, {{lang|ja|[[:ja:テレビ西日本|テレビ西日本]]}}, affiliated with [[Fuji TV|CX]] and [[Fuji News Network|FNN]] / [[Fuji Network System|FNS]]) - 8

==References==
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