NHK’s Educational Television (ETV) celebrated its 60th anniversary early this year. “Series: Sixty Years of Educational Television” comprehensively analyzes ETV programs by dividing them into groups.

Among ETV programs, “hobby programs” are most frequent watched, followed by “lifestyle programs” and “toddlers’ or children’s programs.” “Hobby programs” are also ranked number one in the list of ...

An increase of weekly viewers to 200,000 shows that people who previously only followed certain shows, are not following the channel regularly. The importance of the local Russian language channel is ...