NHK+
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NHK+ (NHKプラス) was NHK's official streaming service. It provided simulcasts and already-carried programs seen on both NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV. It shut down in 2025, being replaced by NHK ONE.
In November 2010, then-NHK Chairman Shigeo Fukuchi announced his intention to begin simultaneous distribution of television programs over the Internet, and announced that he would request the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to revise the Broadcasting Act.[1] However, the project stalled due to several concerns. Beyond the need for significant investment in distribution server development, private broadcasters and experts—including Michisada Hirose (then chairman of the Japan Commercial Broadcasting Federation and advisor to TV Asahi) and Masayuki Shimada (president of TV Tokyo)—raised issues such as how to handle copyright and personality rights, as well as whether NHK’s license fee system should apply to households without television sets.[2]
Subsequently, after the revised Broadcasting Act was enacted in 2014, NHK began providing simultaneous broadcasting on NHK's official website and smartphone app for important news such as disasters and national elections, as well as global sports broadcasts such as the Olympics and Paralympics and the FIFA World Cup.[3][4][5][6][7]
Additionally, since November 2015, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has held a "Study Group on Issues Related to Broadcasting", where discussions centered on the simultaneous distribution of NHK TV broadcasts. However, due to the problems mentioned above, it took nearly four years for a full-scale simultaneous distribution service to begin.[8]
In response to the revised Broadcasting Act passed and enacted at the 198th Diet/House of Councilors plenary session on June 5, 2019,[9] trial distribution was initially planned to take place at the 70th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen held on December 31 of the same year, and full-scale service would be launched within the same year. However, in November of the same year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications was concerned about NHK's bloat and requested a review of the implementation plan for simultaneous internet distribution services, and at the same time, approval was also postponed until January 14, 2020, so the service implementation was temporarily postponed and started at the date and time mentioned below.[10][11][12]
Overview
NHK+ was a service that simultaneously distributed NHK TV's terrestrial (general/E-tele) broadcasts and the Internet after obtaining approval from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.[13][14]
Simultaneous program distribution time was limited to a 24-hour period,[13] and broadcasts from NHK Broadcasting Center (South Kanto) were relayed. In addition, missed program distribution can be used any time and any number of times for 7 days after broadcast.[15][13][14]
NHK Plus was introduced as a complementary service for areas with poor reception.[16] Subscribers—and members of the same household—can use up to five streams at no extra cost, provided they register and complete the authentication process.[13][14] For the time being, continuous simultaneous distribution and missed program distribution were not available under business contracts.[13]
The service ended on October 1, 2025, with all of its content integrated into the NHK ONE platform.[17]
References
- ↑ "民放連会長 「ネット同時配信」に消極的". J-CASTニュース. 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ↑ "島田社長11月定例会見". 株式会社テレビ東京. 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ↑ "災害情報をスマホに通知「NHKニュース・防災アプリ」 テレビ映像の同時配信も". ITmedia NEWS. 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ↑ "リオオリンピックの開会式や試合がテレビ放送と同時配信される「NHKスポーツ」アプリ". GIGAZINE. 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "参院選や都知事選，各局でネット配信". NHK放送文化研究所. September 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ↑ "無料アプリ「NHKスポーツ」パラリンピック競技をライブ配信". CYCLE. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ "NHK北海道". Twitter. 2018-09-07. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ↑ 境治 (2022-06-16). "｢受信料だけじゃない｣NHKと放送をめぐる議論". 東洋経済新報. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ↑ "ＮＨＫ ネット常時同時配信へ テレビ離れ、動画普及が背景". 東京新聞. Archived from the original on 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ↑ "紅白からネット同時配信検討＝石原ＮＨＫ経営委員長". 時事通信. 2019-06-11. Archived from the original on 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ↑ "NHK、4月からネット配信開始へ 本年度の開始は断念、計画見直し公表". サンケイスポーツ. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ↑ "ＮＨＫ同時配信を認可 ４月からスマホ向け本格サービス". 時事通信. 2020-01-14. Archived from the original on 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- 1 2 3 4 5 NHK (2020-01-15). "常時同時配信・見逃し番組配信サービスの開始について" (PDF). 日本放送協会 (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- 1 2 3 "ＮＨＫ「常時同時配信・見逃し番組配信」４月から開始へ". NHK News WEB (in Japanese). 2020-01-15. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "ＮＨＫ「同時配信」などの新サービス、試行スタート" (in Japanese). 読売新聞. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ↑ "ネット同時配信、１日開始 テレビ離れに対応―ＮＨＫ" (in Japanese). 時事通信. Archived from the original on 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "NHK、新ネットサービス「NHK ONE」10月開始。NHKプラスに後継アプリ". AV Watch (in Japanese).
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