Channels

• Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.
• Radio: BS-i had been assigned 461ch, 462ch, and was closed on September 30, 2005. - TBS Radio & Communications
  TBS Radio & Communications
  is the flagship radio station of Japan Radio Network in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded by Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc. on March 21, 2000...
  
   had been produced.
• Data: BS-TBS is assigned BS766ch, BS768ch, but BS768ch is not being used now.

History

• November, 1998 - founded.
• June, 2000 - JDC was renamed .
• December 1, 2000 - BS-i started broadcasting.
• July, 2004 - BS-i moved its headquarters from TBS Hoso Kaikan to TBS Broadcast Center 15th fl.
• September 30, 2005 - BS-i closed satellite radio broadcasting.
• April 1, 2009 - BS-i, Incorporated was renamed to its current name BS-TBS, Incorporated.

Programs

• General programs
  • A number of programs which TBS
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....
    
     broadcast are broadcast also on BS-TBS.
• Anime programs
  • The anime which BS-TBS produced is popular among the anime fans, because the regulation of expression on satellite broadcasting is looser than on terrestrial broadcasting.
  • On TBS, in order to adjust size, most 16:9 anime is cropped on the left and right. But on BS-TBS, they are broadcast in their original form.
    • These are anime
      Anime
      is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
      
       programs broadcast just on BS-TBS:
      • Air
      • Cyber Team in Akihabara
        Cyber Team in Akihabara
        is an anime series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori. Its genre can be best described as being a fusion of the magical girl, mecha and moe anime genres. The television series aired from April 4, 1998 to September 26, 1998 on TBS and ran for 26 episodes. It was released in the United...
        
        
      • Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma
      • He Is My Master
        He Is My Master
        is a gag comedy manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, later spun off into a television anime series in the harem genre with a lolicon aspect. The manga is authored by two individuals: Mattsu who does the story and his ex-wife Asu Tsubaki who does the artwork...
        
        
      • Kanon
        Kanon
        is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and originally released as an adult game on June 4, 1999, playable on a Microsoft Windows PC. An all ages version for the PC was released in January 2000, and was later ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable...
        
        
      • Little Snow Fairy Sugar
        Little Snow Fairy Sugar
        is a Japanese anime series developed by J.C.Staff. It premiered in Japan on TBS on October 2, 2001 and ran for 24 episodes until its conclusion March 26, 2002. A two-episode OVA was also released for the series. The series was licensed for North America by Geneon Entertainment, but after the...
        
        
      • Mahoromatic
        Mahoromatic
        is a sci-fi romantic comedy manga and animeseries which contains elements of the literary genre of tragic dramas. It is about a female android former soldier, Mahoro...
        
        
      • Popotan
        Popotan
        is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Petit Ferret with character designs by Akio Watanabe under the alias Poyoyon Rock. It was originally released as a PC game for CD-ROM on December 13, 2002 and subsequently re-released on DVD-ROM and for the PlayStation 2 with certain scenes removed...
        
        
      • This Ugly and Beautiful World
      • Yumeria
        Yumeria
        is a Namco video game released for the PlayStation 2 and an anime series produced by Studio Deen.Tomokazu Mikuri, the main character in the game and anime, turns 16 years old and has led a dull life without girls. On the night of his birthday, he dreams of a strange world in which he sees a young...
        
        
    • These are anime programs broadcast on both TBS and BS-TBS:
      • Oh My Goddess!
        Oh My Goddess!
        , also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. It premiered in the November 1988 issue of Afternoon where it is still being serialized. Every few months, the most recent chapters are published in tankōbon volumes by Kodansha...
        
        
      • Bincho-tan
      • BLACK CAT
        Black Cat (manga)
        is a Japanese Shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. It was originally serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It was later collected in twenty tankōbon volumes from January 11, 2001 to October 9, 2004. The series was adapted into a twenty-four episode anime...
        
        
      • Chobits
        Chobits
        is a Japanese manga created by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from February 2001 to November 2002 and collected in eight bound volumes....
        
        
      • Heat Guy J
        Heat Guy J
        is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight.Heat Guy J was licensed and distributed in the U.S. in 2003 by Pioneer . It is set for re-release by Funimation Entertainment in the fall of 2009. The first 13 episodes of the show also was...
        
        
      • Ichigo Mashimaro
      • Melody of Oblivion
        Melody of Oblivion
        is an anime series by J.C.Staff, with some involvement from Gainax. The series is 24 episodes long, and originally aired between April 7, 2004 and September 21, 2004.-Information:The Melody of Oblivion is a series rife with cultural references...
        
        
      • REC
      • Rozen Maiden
        Rozen Maiden
        is a manga series created by Peach-Pit. The story centers on Jun Sakurada, a young hikikomori boy that forms a bond with Shinku, a living doll of the "Rozen Maiden" series, who was created by the mysterious dollmaker Rozen hundreds of years ago...
        
        
      • Rozen Maiden Traumend
        Rozen Maiden
        is a manga series created by Peach-Pit. The story centers on Jun Sakurada, a young hikikomori boy that forms a bond with Shinku, a living doll of the "Rozen Maiden" series, who was created by the mysterious dollmaker Rozen hundreds of years ago...
        
        
      • Clannad
      • Clannad -After Story-
      • Tsukihime, Lunar Legend
      • K-On!
        K-On!
        is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Kakifly. The manga was serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara between the May 2007 and October 2010 issues. It was also serialized in Houbunsha's magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat...