NHK to reduce radio channels.
This is talking about it’s domestic radio services:
NHK Radio 1 and NHK Radio 2, which are both nationwide mediumwave broadcasts.
NHK Radio 1 is news and light entertainment, Radio 2 is education and some foreign-language services. During a major earthquake or tsunami, Radio 2 switches exclusively to foreign-language broadcasts. (Mostly English, mirroring the second audio channel on NHK G television, but some automated warnings in also Chinese, Korean and Portuguese. Possibly some others, it’s been a while since I heard them.)
Radio 1 is mostly carried by a smaller number of more powerful transmitters, Radio 2 on a denser network of lower power transmitters, many on frequencies shared with other parts of Japan and neighboring countries.
NHK also runs an FM network which appears untouched by this proposal.
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Martyn Williams to WOR groups.io (2020-08-04)