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TBS Television

TV station in Kantō region, wholly owned by TBS
Organization television_station Q6766400
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Summary

TBS Television is a television station[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of television station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,419 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Notable work: Nichiyō Gekijō[3], TBS Friday Drama[4], TBS Tuesday Drama[5], All-Star Thanksgiving[6], HIRUOBI![7], LOVE it![8], Sunday Morning[9], Discovery of the World's Mysteries[10], King's Brunch[11]
  • Member of: Japan News Network[12], Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union[13], The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association[14]
  • Country: Japan[15]
  • Instance of: broadcaster[16]
  • Item operated: TBS News DIG[17], TBS Channel[18]
  • Owned by: TBS Holdings Inc.[19]
  • Headquarters location: Akasaka[20]
  • Commons category: TBS Television (Japan)[21]
  • Industry: media industry[22]
  • Inception: March 21, 2000[23]
  • Parent organization or unit: TBS Holdings Inc.[24]
  • Significant event: TBS video problem[25], TBS平日ワイド大改編[26]
  • Mascot: BooBo[27]
  • Official website: https://www.tbs.co.jp/[28], https://www.tbscontents.com/[29]
  • Topic's main category: Category:TBS Television[30]
  • Has facility: Midoriyama Studio City[31]
  • Streaming media URL: https://tver.jp/live/tbs[32]
  • Product or material produced: television program[33]
  • Affiliation: Japan News Network[34]
  • Official name: 株式会社TBSテレビ[35], Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.[36]
  • Legal form: kabushiki gaisha[37]
  • Short name: TBS Television[38], TBS-TV[39]
  • Name in kana: ティービーエステレビ[40]
  • Owner of: U-NEXT[41]
  • Frequency: 6 television channel[42]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[43]

  • Country: JP[44]

  • Began / founded: 2004-10-01[45]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a6c6d7e7-6d29-4265-a509-3a10d116d6ab[46]

Why It Matters

TBS Television has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Related Entities

Japan TBS Holdings Inc.

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . tbsholdings.co.jp. tbsholdings.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . abu.org.my. abu.org.my. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . j-ba.or.jp. j-ba.or.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [23] ↑ . tbsholdings.co.jp. tbsholdings.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [43] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [46] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17h ago · Bcxfu75k · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Youtube handle → tbsnewsdig
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'es', 'fa', 'id', 'ja', 'ko', 'pt', 'ru', 'sv', 'th', 'zh', 'zh_classical
    Wikipedia title → Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Youtube handle: tbsnewsdig"
  2. 4w ago · J o · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → Japan News Network, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member of: The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association"
  3. 13w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Inception → +2000-03-21T00:00:00Z
    Tmdb network id → 160
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+319463'}, {'amount': '+296142'}, {'amount': '+374438'} +4
    + 33 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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