Aomori Broadcasting Corporation

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Aomori Broadcasting Corporation

Native name	青森放送株式会社
Romanized name	Aomori Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha
Formerly	Radio Aomori Co., Ltd. (1953–1961)
Company type	Private
Founded	September 30, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-09-30)
Headquarters	1-8-1 Matsumori, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture
Key people	Kenta Yamamoto (President and CEO)
Number of employees	130 (as of April 1, 2021)
Website	www.rab.co.jp
Footnotes / references Data from its Company Profile

Aomori Broadcasting Corporation (RAB, 青森放送株式会社, Aomori Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha) is a television and radio broadcaster in Aomori, Japan. It is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN), Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS).

As the prefecture doesn't have an FNN/FNS affiliate, RAB alongside ATV & ABA air certain Fuji TV programming.

There were initial attempts to establish a commercial broadcaster in the prefecture in December 1947, which was then supported with the passage of the "Three Radio Laws" (Radio Law, Broadcasting Law, and Radio Supervisory Committee Establishment Law) in 1950.^[1]: 22

At that time, there were competition for private broadcasting license between Radio Tohoku (not related to the former name of Akita Broadcasting), an unnamed local newspaper in Aomori, and Tohoku Broadcasting.^{[1]: 22–23} In April 1953, Tohoku Radio and Tohoku Broadcasting made a settlement, and Tohoku Broadcasting cancelled its application for a broadcasting license in Aomori Prefecture, and the two cooperated fully.^[1]: 26 In August of the same year, Radio Tohoku received its broadcasting license which was then renamed to Radio Aomori on September 26.^[1]: 27

Radio Aomori was then established on September 30, 1953.^[2] A day before its establishment, they conducted trial radio broadcasts.^[1]: 30 On October 12, 1953, Radio Aomori officially started broadcasting.^[1]: 20 Upon its launch, Radio Aomori wasn't receivable to southern parts of the prefecture.^[1]: 31 This was later resolved when the Hirosaki relay transmitter was opened in 1956.^[1]: 39 According to a survey conducted by the local government of Aomori Prefecture in 1957, Radio Aomori accounted for 76.2% in audience share compared to NHK Radio 1's 21%.^[1]: 41

Radio Aomori started preparing to broadcast on TV since August 1955, and obtained a TV broadcast license in October 1957.^[1]: 44 They conducted trial broadcasts on September 14, 1959, and officially started TV broadcasting on October 1 of the same year.^[1]: 44 RAB initially intended to join JNN. However, before it started broadcasting it was discovered that Nippon TV were the most favorable.^[1]: 44 In October 1961 to reflect the rapid development of their television broadcasting, Aomori Radio changed its name to Aomori Broadcasting.^[1]: 50 In 1965, RAB joined the JRN and NRN networks at the same time, avoiding costs of having another AM radio station in the prefecture.^[1]: 59

RAB started color TV broadcasting in 1966^[1]: 60 and expanded to uninterrupted sign-on to sign-off broadcasts in May 1970.^[1]: 46 On April 1, 1975, RAB started airing TV Asahi programming as it joined ANN after ATV withdrew from being an ANN affiliate.^[1]: 80 RAB then withdrew from airing ANN programming when Asahi Broadcasting Aomori opened on October 1, 1991, and continued to air Fuji TV programming.^[1]: 117

In 1991, RAB won 7 awards in the 1991 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Award.^[1]: 116 Since Video Research started conducting rating surveys in Aomori on 1989, RAB continued to be number 1 in terms of TV rating.^[1]: 40

RAB Radio

• Aomori 1233 kHz JOGR; 91.7 MHz FM
• Hachinohe 1485 kHz JOGO; 92.7 MHz FM
• Hirosaki 1215 kHz JOGE
• Fukaura 1485 kHz
• Towada 1485 kHz
• Noheji 1062 kHz

JOGR-TV - RAB Television

• Aomori(Main Station) 1ch
• Hachinohe 11ch
• Mutsu 10ch
• Fukaura 6ch
• Iwasaki 1ch
• Kodomari 11ch
• Shiranuka 1ch
• Tomari 10ch
• Oma 1ch
• Shichinohe 10ch
• Owani 11ch
• Takko 57ch
• Kamikita 53ch
• Imabetsu 54ch
• Sai 42ch
• Hachinohe-Sawasato 41ch
• Towada 45ch
• Goshogawara 44ch
• Asamushi 54ch
• Kasose 50ch
• etc...

JOGR-DTV - RAB Digital Television

• Aomori 28Ch
• Hachinohe 22Ch
• Kamikita 26Ch
• Mutsu 43Ch
• Fukaura 26Ch
• Owani 20Ch
• etc...

• Touou Nippou NEWS
• RAB NEWS(Only special program schedules)
• Aomori Prefectural Ekiden(September 1stSunday)
• Day of Tsugaru dialect

• Morning Wide! Dash
• Today's Asapuri
• GO!GO! Radimaru
• RAB News Lader
• ShioriAso's Saturday is kyun
• ShuetsuTokaichi's Saturday-alley
• Saturday is DON
• RAB Ear's newspaper
• etc...

• Goodmorning wide Aomori
• Aomori today
• Saturday Dreaming Radio
• Heartfull Saturday
• Pit in Saturday
• Night bridge for you

• RAB News Ladar - news every. -
• Monday information-stools
• ZIP! FRIDAY

• Goodmorning hot studio(Saturday)
• Friday wide Aomori (only Friday)
• Chau-chau 15(30)minutes(except Friday)

• Too Nippo

• Aomori Television(ATV)
• Asahi Broadcasting Aomori(ABA)
• Aomori FM Broadcasting(AFB)

• RAB HomePage