TBS Holdings, Inc., (株式会社TBSホールディングス) (formerly Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc., (株式会社東京放送ホールディングス)) is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network TBS Television and radio network TBS Radio. It has a 28-affiliate television network called Japan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called Japan Radio Network. TBS produced the game show Takeshi's Castle and has also broadcast the Ultra Series programs and Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan.

History

Coverage

Current

Broadcasting rights

Football

Soccer

Volleyball

Golf

Multi-sport events

Announcers

Programs

Below is a selection of the many programs that the network has broadcast.

Sporting competition

Variety and talk shows

Music

Dramas and TV series

Information and news programs

Game shows

Idol Japan

Anime programming

Criticism

Sakamoto family murders

TBS was accused of failing to protect its sources in October 1989, when it taped an interview with Tsutsumi Sakamoto regarding his investigations into the Aum Shinrikyo sect. The network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge. Aum officials then pressured TBS to cancel the planned broadcast of the interview, but Sakamoto, his wife and child were murdered by Aum members on 3 November.