BBC Japan

BBC Japan

Infobox Network
network_name = BBC Japan
network_
network_type = Satellite
available = flagcountry|Japan
owner = BBC
launch_date = December 1, 2004
dissolved = April 24, 2006
founder = BBC Worldwide

BBC Japan was a television channel from the BBC available via satellite in Japan. Similar in format to BBC Prime, which now broadcasts a service in other Asian countries, BBC Japan showed such BBC programmes as "Blackadder" and "Fawlty Towers", with many of them subtitled in Japanese.

The channel launched on December 1, 2004 and was available over Sky PerfecTV! 110 and 4th MEDIA.

Closure

On 20 March 2006, the BBC [http://www.bbcjapan.tv/news.aspx?menu=news announced] that its distributor JMC "no longer has the financial means to honour its contractual commitments to distribute the BBC Japan channel". On 24 April 2006, the BBC confirmed that BBC Japan would cease broadcasting on 30 April 2006, but would be seeking carriage from another distributor.

External links

* [http://www.bbcjapan.tv/news.aspx?menu=news BBC announcement concerning closure on 30th April 2006]


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