Japan’s public broadcaster NHK’s music documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto: Last Days was awarded the most prestigious Special Prize in Honour of the President of the Italian Republic at the Prix Italia Award Ceremony held on October 24 in Naples. The documentary was also awarded a Prix Italia for the best in the TV Performing Arts category. […]
Singapore-based content creators Empire of Arkadia (EOA) and Mocha Chai Laboratories (MCL) have partnered with Japan’s public media organisation NHK and production house TV Man Union (TVU) in creating Lost and Found – an adventure drama series inspired by real events, targeting Gen Z audiences around the world. Shot in both Japanese and English, on […]
A spectacular marine documentary, captured in 8K UHD by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has won an IBC Innovation Award at the 2025 event. NHK’s Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth, which successfully filmed the world’s-first video images of a group of coelacanths and their behaviour indicative of reproduction using 8K HDR and 22.2 multichannel surround […]
A number of Japanese broadcasters are leaving the high-profile BS4K direct broadcasting platform. The satellite platform charges a premium fee over and above the normal TV licence fee. Only three channels remain, including public broadcaster NHK and shopping channels. The five major channels (described locally as part of the BS5 consortium) and named as Nippon […]
International distributor Bomanbridge Media and kids’ media powerhouse, Sinking Ship Entertainment, have announced key broadcast sales in Asian territories for the new children’s series of Dino Dex and Odd Squad UK. An adventure-packed series, Dino Dex (13 x 22’), has been acquired by broadcasters Youku in China and Japan’s NHK, which has licensed the series […]
Visitors to Japanese public broadcaster NHK and its NHK Labs R&D division’s Tech Expo 2025 (opening May 26th) can take an early look at some of the company’s broadcasting developments. Top of the list is NHK’s Scene-adaptive camera. When capturing wide field-of-view footage like 360-degree videos, you often encounter various subjects in bright, dark, or […]
NHK public broadcaster, and in particular its Science and Technology Research Laboratories (STRL), has succeeded in developing a real-time multi-layer video encoder which is compatible to the international video coding standard VVC (Versatile Video Coding). The development will enable people to watch two (or more) different types of content through one broadcasting channel. This is […]
Canadian independent producer Go Button Media has announced that it is in production on a second 6 x 60’ season of its popular series, The Animal Within. This series represents the second greenlight from its latest 36-hour slate deal with partners Autentic, a leading international distributor and producer of high-quality factual content, and Super Channel, […]
Japan’s NHK public broadcaster is in trouble for the third year running suffering from a shortfall in licence fee payments. NHK’s 2025 fiscal year will post a deficit of some 40 billion Yen (€245m) according to The Japan Times. While this is a major shortfall, the sum is an improvement on the 2024 position which […]
One of Japan public broadcaster NHK’s regional stations, NHK Obihiro, is cooperating with Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS on a documentary following the launch of the first Taiwanese rocket which will take off from Hokkaido in Japan. The rocket launch by Taiwan Innovative Space (TiSpace) is scheduled for spring 2025. It will be the first-ever Taiwanese […]