RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation (RKB 毎日放送株式会社, RKB mainichi hoso kabushiki gaisha) (stylized as ⁺rkb) is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN) and the Japan News Network (JNN). It is owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Mainichi Shimbun and the Aso Group.

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RKB Mainichi Broadcasting

Trade name	RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation
Native name	Rkb+ 毎日放送株式会社
Romanized name	Rkb+ Mainichihōsō kabushikigaisha
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Television network
Founded	June 29, 1951; 72 years ago (1951-06-29) as Radio Kyushu Broadcasting August 1, 1958; 65 years ago (1958-08-01) as RKB Mainichi Broadcasting
Headquarters	2-3-8 Momochihama, Sawaraku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan
Key people	Ryoji Inoue (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Holdings) Izumi Sato (President and Representative Director; RKB Mainichi Broadcasting)
Parent	RKB Mainichi Holdings Corporation
Website	rkb.jp
Footnotes / references Data from its Corporate Profile

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The initials RKB stand for Radio Kyushu Broadcasting (ラジオ九州放送, rajio kyushu hoso), the station's former name.^[1][2]

In 1950, following the enactment of the Radio Law, Mainichi Shimbun wanted to establish three radio stations (Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka). The Fukuoka station was named Radio Kyushu. A license for JOFR was issued on April 21, 1951 and the company was formally established on June 29. On December 1, Radio Kyushu begins its operations.

RKB started television broadcasts on March 1, 1958. At the same time, the station had to merge with Mainichi Seibu Television (tentative calls JOGX-TV, later reassigned in 2013 after CBC TV spun-off). Consequently the planned JOGX was opened as the Kitakyushu satellite station (JOFO-TV).

• NHK Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
• Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, 九州朝日放送, affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
• Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation (FBS, 福岡放送, affiliated with NTV and NNN / NNS) - 5
• TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting (TVQ, TVQ九州放送, affiliated with TV Tokyo and TX Network) - 7
• Television Nishinippon Corporation (TNC, テレビ西日本, affiliated with CX and FNN / FNS) - 8