NHK World Premium

NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to worldwide national channels such as CCTV-4, KBS World, TV5Monde, TVE Internacional, RTP Internacional, TV Chile, Rai Italia or RTR Planeta, and broadcast through subscription TV providers around the world.

NHK World Premium
Launched	July 23, 2006
Owned by	NHK
Picture format	16:9 480i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Slogan	Japan, Closer To You (日本をいつもどこでも)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese, English (certain programmes only)
Broadcast area	Asia Pacific, Africa (Except North Africa), Latin America
Headquarters	NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Sister channel(s)	NHK General TV NHK Educational TV NHK BS 1 NHK BS Premium NHK BS 4K NHK BS 8K NHK World-Japan
Website	Official website
Availability
Satellite
In Digital (India)	Channel 866
Indovision Indonesia	Channel 354
TrueVisions Thailand	Channel 787
SKY México Mexico	Channel 1293 (Mexico)
DirecTV South America and Caribe	Channel 782
GVT Brazil	Channel 140
Transcision Indonesia	Channel 371
SkyNet Myanmar	Channel 38
Globecast Australia and New Zealand (Optus D2 152°E)	12546 V 22500 3/4 (SD)
DD Direct+ India	Channel 42
Astra 19.2 Europe	11,509 MHz (Vertical)
Intelsat 19 (166°E)	4060 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Intelsat 20 (68.5°E)	3739 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Intelsat 21 (58.0°W)	4040 MHz H 26590 1/2 (DVB-S QPSK)
Astro Malaysia	Channel 398
DirecTV (Latin America)	Channel 782 (pay per view)
SKY México	Channel 283
CANAL+ (Myanmar)	Channel 264
Cable
Sky Cable Philippines	Channel 131 (Digital)
Parasat Cable TV Philippines	Channel 315
TrueVisions Thailand	Channel 787
First Media Indonesia	Channel 257
Destiny Cable	Channel 131 (Digital) Channel 119 (Analog)
GTA Teleguam Hawaii, US	Channel 261
Skylife Korea	Channel 175 (HD)
Cable TV Hong Kong	Channel 322
GTD Manquehue Santiago, Chile	Channel 125
Cablelink Philippines	Channel 132
Macau Cable TV (Macau)	Channel 20
Taiwan	various
Claro TV Perú	Channel 170
IPTV
Now TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 711
Singtel TV (Singapore)	Channel 682
StarHub TV Singapore	Channel 811 (HD)
Unifi TV (Malaysia)	Channel 651 (HD)
Streaming media
Live webcast	No longer available since September 2015

The purpose of NHK World Premium is to make original, general television content produced by NHK available to an international audience. It provides a mixture of news, sports and entertainment shows in Japanese language, all of which are simulcast or previously shown on NHK's domestic TV networks in Japan (NHK G, NHK E, NHK BS1, NHK BS Premium, NHK BS4K, and NHK BS8K).

The service is marketed as a pay satellite or cable TV channel with that name except for Europe and North America. In Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the service is broadcast under the brand name JSTV, and in the US and Canada it is known as TV Japan. Unlike the regular NHK World Premium service, both JSTV and TV Japan offer some additional programming from other major Japanese TV broadcasters such as TV Tokyo or Fuji TV, in addition to NHK's own shows. Contents generally do not carry English subtitles or dubbing, while a few of them, especially news, have bilingual audio (a feature kept from their original, domestic broadcast in Japan, where it is offered as well).