Tokyo – On August 5, 2013, NHK WORLD TV will start round-the-clock broadcasting in the Los Angeles area. The English-language channel from Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, will be made available to about 3.3-million homes in and around Los Angeles. This will bring NHK WORLD TV’s 24-hour broadcast to more than ten million homes in the U.S., about 1.4 times as many as before. 

The broadcast will be distributed by KCETLink, an independent public broadcasting organisation headquartered in Burbank, California, through a digital over-the-air channel. Four cable television companies, including Time Warner Cable, and Verizon, which offers an IPTV service, will also carry the channel for their subscribers.