Education Specialist Bureau - Kyoiku Senmon Kyoku

...The Broadcast Law stipulates that NHK "in editing domestic broadcasting programs... shall include cultural or educational programs, as well as news and entertainment programs, and shall maintain harmony between the broadcasting programs" (Article 44, Paragraph 4), and this provision also applies mutatis mutandis to commercial broadcasting stations (Article 51). With regard to educational and cultural programs of commercial television stations, Japan Educational Television, which received a provisional license in February 1957 as an educational specialty station, was required to have at least 53% educational programs and at least 30% cultural programs, and in October of the same year, three quasi-educational specialty stations (Yomiuri Television, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Sapporo Television Broadcasting) that also had provisional licenses were required to have at least 50% educational and cultural programs. At the same time, general television stations that received provisional licenses were also required to have at least 30% educational and cultural programs.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Education Specialist Bureau" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…放送法はNHKに〈国内放送の放送番組の編集に当っては……教養番組又は教育番組並びに報道番組及び娯楽番組を設け，放送番組の相互の間の調和を保つようにしなければならない〉と規定し(44条4項)，この規定は民放局にも準用される(51条)。民放テレビ局の教育･教養番組については，教育専門局として1957年2月に予備免許を受けた日本教育テレビには教育番組53％以上，教養番組30％以上を義務づけたし，同年10月に予備免許のあった準教育専門局3局(読売テレビ，毎日放送，札幌テレビ放送)には教育･教養番組50％以上という条件がついた。このとき同時に予備免許を受けた一般テレビ局にも，教育･教養番組30％以上という条件がつけられた。…

※「教育専門局」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報