On May 17, 1951, headed by Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising agency and production company, "Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd." (Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd.) was registered and established. The head office is located in Kasumi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Seki, the first president was Adachi Masaru.
On December 25, 1951, broadcasting business was started at the "Mainichi Shinkan" in Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
In December 1953, the company abbreviation "KRT" (Kabusikigaisha Radio Tokyo, namely "Tokyo Radio Co., Ltd.") began to be used.
On April 1, 1955, television broadcasting business began in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo. The station was named "KR Television" (KR テレビ) and used "JOKR-TV" as its call sign.
On August 1, 1959, in order to compete with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), which owns a national television network, to broadcast the marriage of the Japanese Crown Prince (now Emperor Akihito), under the leadership of KRT, Japan's first A television network, JNN (Japan News Network), was established.
On September 10, 1960, color television was launched.
In October 1960, it was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
On November 29, 1960, the company name was changed to Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc., referred to as "TBS".
In August 1961, an English handwritten trademark with radio waves as the main image was launched. It was designed by Junzo Imamichi and produced by Kage Ichikawa.
In September 1961, the "three primary colors of light" (blue, green, and red) were used as the representative colors; blue symbolizes "ability", green symbolizes "passion", and red symbolizes "responsibility." In October 1961, the company's flag and logo were formulated with the "three primary colors of light".
On October 12, 1961, the "TBS Hall" (TBS Hall) on the east side of the photography building was completed. The headquarters and studio were moved from the photography building to the TBS Hall within two months. TBS Hall *** has 9 floors above ground and 1 floor underground.
On December 1, 1961, the company name was unified as "TBS".
On May 2, 1965, the broadcast network "JRN" (Japan Radio Network) was established.
In 1969, the "Japan Record Awards" (Hui! Japan Record Awards) began to be broadcast live, becoming the signature TV program at the end of each year.
In March 1981, the Green Mountain Film and Television Base (Green Mountain スタジオ?シティ) located in the Green District of Yokohama City (now Aoba Ward) was completed.
On September 30, 1991, the Corporate Identification System (CIS) was launched and the English handwritten trademark was abolished. However, the variety show "Dream Press Company" (ドリーム?プレス社) continued to use the English handwritten trademark until 2009. The program went off the air on March 20, and the English handwritten trademark officially entered history.
In March 1994, the headquarters moved from the TBS Hall to the "TBS Broadcasting Center" (TBS Broadcasting Center) in Akasaka.
At 1 a.m. on October 3, 1994, the TBS Hall broadcast studio was decommissioned and moved to the 8th to 9th floors of the TBS Broadcasting Center. After all the equipment for the radio broadcasting business was removed from the TBS Hall, it was renamed "Akasaka Media Building" (Akasaka Media Building) and was used by TBS affiliated companies.
On April 1, 1998, the Communication Satellite (CS) TV channel "JNN News Bird" was launched. In the same year, "The TBS store" opened on the first floor of the Akasaka Media Center.
In February 2000, the unified logo "人" (ジ～ン) of TBS Group, JNN, and TBS Broadcasting Network was launched.
On March 21, 2000, the radio broadcasting business became independent as TBS Broadcasting and Information Co., Ltd.ト), The TV sports program production business is independently established as TBS Sports (TBS Sports Co., Ltd.).
At 11 a.m. on December 1, 2000, the broadcast satellite (BS) television channel "BS-i" was launched and is headquartered at the TBS Hall.
On March 1, 2001, the information program production business became independent as TBS Live (TBS Live Co., Ltd.).
On October 1, 2001, the radio broadcasting business was inherited by the subsidiary "TBS Broadcasting and Information Company". TBS's TV channel call sign was changed to "JORX-TV", and its channel name was also changed from "Tokyo Broadcasting" to "TBS Television" (TBS Television).
On July 1, 2002, the CS TV channel "TBS Channel" was launched.
In March 2003, the TBS Hall was permanently closed and demolished. On July 1, 2003, the group member "Kinoshita Production Co., Ltd." (Kinoshita Production Co., Ltd.) changed its name to "DREAMAX TV" (Kinoshita TV Co., Ltd.) and became a subsidiary of TBS.
At 11 a.m. on December 1, 2003, the terrestrial digital TV channel JORX-DTV was launched.
In October 2004, TBS Entertainment merged TBS Sports and TBS Live and changed its name to "TBS TV" (TBS TV Co., Ltd.).
On October 13, 2005, Rakuten Co., Ltd., a large Japanese Internet company, announced that it held 15.46 shares of TBS and was preparing for a merger, but was resisted by TBS. Finally, on November 28 of the same year, the two parties reconciled and changed direction. Development of cooperative relations.
On November 1, 2005, the on-demand video service "TBS BooBo BOX" was launched.
On April 1, 2006, "JNN News Bird" was renamed "TBS News Bird" in response to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' terrestrial digitization.
On March 20, 2008, "Akasaka Sacas" (Akasaka Sacas), which was demolished and rebuilt by TBS Hall, was completed and opened.
On September 1, 2008, "TBS BooBo BOX" was revised to "TBS on-demand" (TBS オンデマンド).
On April 1, 2009, Tokyo Broadcasting Co., Ltd. changed its name to "Tokyo Broadcasting Holdings Co., Ltd." (Tokyo Broadcasting Co., Ltd.), becoming the second media in Japan to implement the "certified broadcasting holding company" system Enterprise, the television broadcasting business was transferred to the subsidiary "TBS Television". In addition, "BS-i" was renamed "BS-TBS" at the same time.
On July 24, 2011, terrestrial digitalization ended, and TBS analog TV channel (JORX-TV) officially stopped broadcasting.