[citation needed] It was heavily damaged due to the atomic bombs on August 6, 1945.
A member of the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Station was attempting to receive further details, fifteen minutes after the blast, the station was unconcactable.
Surviving staff members gathered at a nearby station in Hara (now Gion) and resumed broadcasting the following day from an extra room available there.
[3] NHK Radio 2 (JOFB) started broadcasting on September 10, 1945.
FM test broadcasts (JOFK-FM) were conducted on September 17, 1962, becoming regular two years later.