Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting

Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (九州朝日放送株式会社, Kyūshū Asahi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha) is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, affiliated with National Radio Network (NRN) on radio and All-Nippon News Network (ANN) on TV.

[1]: 21 Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting then opened on 21 August 1953[3] with its headquarters initially located in the Asahiya Department Store in Kurume City.

[1]: 52–53 As part of its radio expansion, they permanently moved their headquarters to the Hananoseki Building in Nakasu, Fukuoka City on 30 November 1956.

[1]: 78–82 After obtaining their license, KBC then planned to move its headquarters to Nagahama, Fukuoka City in order to meet the facility requirements for TV broadcasting.

[1]: 96  On 15 July 1958, KBC established its relay transmitter in Kokura City in Kitakyushu as part of its preparations for TV broadcasting.

[1]: 100–101  In July 1961, KBC obtained another license for the whole of Kitakyushu City in Fukuoka and started to place its relay transmitters on Mount Sarakura.

[1]: 159, 161 In 1969, the Fukuoka District Court requested four television stations, including KBC (the other three being RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, Television Nishinippon, and NHK Fukuoka), to submit news footage of college students protesting the docking of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at Sasebo Port, but Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting refused to do so on the grounds that it infringed on press freedom.

The Asahiya Department Store (later Kurume Izutsuya) which was the initial headquarters of KBC until it moved to Fukuoka City in 1956. The building closed down in February 2009 and was later demolished.