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122-568: JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as TBS Television ( TBSテレビ , TBS Terebi ) , is the flagship station of the Japan News Network in the Kantō region . It is owned-and-operated by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. , a subsidiary of TBS Holdings . TBS Television is one of the "five private broadcasters based in Tokyo." TBS produced the game show Takeshi's Castle , which

244-415: A flagship station or key station ) is the broadcast station which originates a television network , or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station. This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication , but generally not backhauls . Not all networks or shows have a flagship station, as some originate from

366-484: A "Superman" who would be a composite of stock shots of George Reeves and a stunt double to be filmed from behind. Larson rejected the idea. Another spin-off idea was a pilot Whitney Ellsworth produced in 1961: The Adventures of Superboy . Johnny Rockwell starred as a young Clark Kent in Smallville. As Superboy, he wore a suit similar in design to George Reeves' suit. Although thirteen scripts had been written, only

488-666: A TBS employee into space, making them Japan's first astronaut. This initiative was known as the TBS Universe Project. A total of 163 employees from the TBS Group applied for selection. After physical examinations, written tests, and evaluations by the Soviet Union, Toyohiro Akiyama and Ryoko Kikuchi emerged as the final candidates. In October 1989, Akiyama and Kikuchi traveled to the astronaut training center near Moscow for their training. After 13 months of training,

610-526: A dedicated radio or television studio . The term derives from the naval custom where the commanding officer of a group of naval ships would fly a distinguishing flag . In common parlance, " flagship " is now used to mean the most important or leading member of a group, hence its various uses in broadcasting. The term flagship station is primarily used in TV and radio in the United States , Canada , and

732-713: A digital subchannel, while KAZA-TV alongside KHTV-CD, KPOM-CD, and KSFV-CD in Los Angeles carries MeTV, MeTV Plus, Catchy Comedy, Story Television, and Heroes & Icons, while WJLP and WZME in New York City carry MeTV and MeTV Plus, with KAXT-CD and KTLN-TV in San Francisco carries Catchy Comedy and Heroes & Icons. Heartland, Retro TV and Rev'n are all based in Chattanooga, Tennessee , the home base of WOOT-LD and common owner Get After It Media . NEWSnet

854-637: A financial crisis, causing TBS to become less popular among the core newspaper bureaus, after MBS affiliation was transferred from ANN to JNN in 1975. In 1979, TBS introduced the promotional slogan "TBS for the BEST," marking its peak performance and ratings at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. During audience rating surveys in the spring and autumn of 1978, all 24 JNN-affiliated stations achieved top rankings in both prime-time and full-day audience ratings. From 1977 to 1980, TBS held first place in turnover among all flagship stations for four consecutive years. In 1980,

976-528: A flagship station, as Clay Travis is based in Nashville. WWRL in New York City was an affiliate of the now-defunct Air America Radio and carries some of its programs (along with those from other distributors) but is separately owned and operated and does not produce any programs for the network. Originally, Air America Radio leased WLIB (also in New York City) as its flagship station; the station

1098-697: A fully owned broadcast building in Metro Manila, thus giving the Manila station equal flagship. In the United States, the term "flagship station" may also be used in the broadcasting industry to refer to a station which is co-located with the headquarters of its station group and considered the company's most important station (such a station may or may not be affiliated with one of the major networks). For example, WDIV-TV in Detroit, affiliated with NBC,

1220-434: A joint stockholding company with TBS for business integration, but TBS rejected this proposal, leading to serious confrontation between the two companies. On November 30 of the same year, Lotte and TBS reached a settlement through financial institutions and agreed to begin business cooperation. However, on February 28, 2007, then TBS President Hiroshi Inoue announced that TBS had terminated its partnership with Lotte and released

1342-415: A local cable broadcaster to distribute preseason and team programming. An anti-siphoning policy is also used by the league in order for local stations to bid for all games not on broadcast television for over-the-air distribution when local teams play. Most of the league's teams partner with a local station or regional network of stations, which distributes team programming and weekly analysis shows featuring

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1464-501: A major adjustment with MOVE, broadcasting variety shows from Monday to Thursday, but this did not yield results. However, starting in 1993, with a recovery in TV drama ratings, TBS's prime-time and evening ratings rose to third place from October 1993 to March 1994. In October 1994, TBS moved into its new headquarters, the TBS Broadcasting Center. During the week of the move, TBS achieved a ratings triple crown. Due to

1586-545: A new defensive merger plan. After TBS adopted the broadcasting holding company system, Lotte decided to require TBS to buy back all the shares it held in TBS, as it could no longer control the management rights. In 2010, the Tokyo District Court ruled that TBS should purchase the shares from Rakuten at a price of 1,294 yen per share. Flagship (broadcasting) In broadcasting , a flagship (also known as

1708-469: A news material exchange agreement with CBC , OTV , RKB , and HBC . This agreement lead to KRT's idea of establishing a national network. Building on the cooperation among various stations during the Crown Prince's wedding, KRT signed a JNN news agreement with 15 TV stations from across Japan on August 1, 1959, creating Japan's first TV network, the Japan News Network (JNN). By the end of that year,

1830-400: A prime-time adaptation rate of 40.4% and an evening-time adaptation rate of 51.8%, which brought the prime-time ratings back to 15.1%. However, after April 1990, due to a decline in TV drama ratings, TBS's prime-time ratings fell again and were surpassed by other Japanese TV stations. From October 1991 to March 1992, TBS's prime-time ratings dropped to 12.2%. Facing a downturn in ratings due to

1952-719: A secondary system to the main CTV network, maintains its eastern flagship in Barrie (which is on the northwestern fringe of the Toronto market) and West Coast flagship in Victoria (which is on the southwestern fringe of the Vancouver market). CIII-DT-41 had always been considered the flagship station of Global in Toronto despite being a technical satellite station of CIII-DT, which is licensed to Paris, Ontario . However, since July 2009,

2074-454: A similar model: flagship stations WOR in New York City (which it acquired in 2012) and KFI in Los Angeles are both operated mostly separately from its syndication wing, Premiere Networks (Premiere does produce some limited programming, including The Jesus Christ Show , The Tech Guy and Handel on the Law , through KFI). Premiere's The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show uses WLAC as

2196-858: A team's head coach , with those stations allowed to market as a team's 'official station', often tied into preseason and often pay-television games (which are syndicated to primary market stations under the league's anti-siphoning policy). In a lesser arrangement, Major League Baseball teams often name a local broadcast station their official weather forecasting partner and allow them to market as such. Canadian network flagship locations vary by language. Most English-language networks eastern flagships are located in Toronto , French-language eastern flagships are located in Montreal , and West Coast flagships (regardless of language) are located in Vancouver . CTV 2 , being

2318-819: Is based in Cadillac, Michigan . True Crime Network and Quest are all based in Atlanta, Georgia . Comet, Charge!, TBD, and The Nest are all based in Baltimore, Maryland . Circle is based in Nashville, Tennessee . The Dallas station for TBN is listed as the network is based in Fort Worth . While the Virginia-based Public Broadcasting Service in the United States does not have an official "flagship" television station, WNET in

2440-521: Is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to Ultraman and the Ultra Series franchise starting in 1966—initially a spinoff of Ultra Q , which was co-produced and broadcast in the same year. Most, if not all, of these series were produced by Tsuburaya Productions for the network. In the 2010s, the Ultra Series moved to TV Tokyo . Since the 1990s, TBS has been

2562-957: Is flagshipped at KZOY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , with much of its programming voicetracked from WGWE in Little Valley, New York . Former flagship stations for now-defunct networks in American radio's "Big Four" era of the 1940s–1980s were: In Canada, current CBC / Radio-Canada flagships are CBLA-FM (99.1) in Toronto , which broadcasts in English, and CBF-FM (95.1) in Montréal , which broadcasts in French. Both are former AM clear channel operations which have moved to FM. Former flagship stations for now-defunct networks were: While CJBC remains on-air on its original frequency, it

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2684-572: Is flagshipped at WSM-FM in the same city. MeTV FM , a classic oldies / soft rock network, is flagshipped at WRME-LD in Chicago , the home base of its owner, television broadcaster Weigel Broadcasting . The Satellite Music Network networks were flagshipped at a cluster of stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex during their existence; KMEO , for example, served as the flagship for Unforgettable Favorites . CloudCast

2806-494: Is listed for NBC because its parent company Comcast is headquartered here. Meanwhile, Miami stations are also listed for Univision, Telemundo and UniMás (formerly TeleFutura) due to their operations being major production bases for those networks. The Miami area station for Ion Television is also listed due to their parent company being based out of West Palm Beach ; however none of the Ion stations listed originate programming for

2928-726: Is located in a suburb of that city. However, Cox owns WFXT in Boston, which is larger than Atlanta. The same can be said for TEGNA who lists three of its properties as its flagship stations ( WXIA-TV in Atlanta, WUSA in Washington, D.C., and KUSA in Denver) , but also owns WFAA in Dallas , which is larger than Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Denver in terms of Media market . Likewise, prior to merging with Gannett in 2013, WFAA served as

3050-542: Is nominally flagshipped at WFAN (although that station does not produce programming for the network). ESPN Radio has no true flagship station, as it operates out of ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut ; Windsor Locks -licensed WUCS (owned by iHeartMedia) serves as its de facto flagship, serving ESPN's home market of Hartford . Nash FM , a country music network, is nominally flagshipped at WKDF in Nashville, Tennessee ; its classic-leaning counterpart Nash Icon

3172-628: Is not mentioned until the credits . The announcement "Our guest star tonight was George Reeves, star of the Superman series" was removed from the episode after its first network broadcast. The episode was colorized and re-broadcast as part of an hour-long Lucy special on the CBS network on May 17, 2015. In 1954, at the request of the US Treasury Department , the production company made a special short film directed by Thomas Carr . It

3294-552: Is now an owned-and-operated station of the French-language Radio-Canada network. The CKO network's Toronto frequency was re-issued to CBL (as CBLA-FM 99.1) but the namesake CKO (AM) flagship in Montréal is silent; the frequency remains vacant. For syndicated radio programs, it refers to the originating station from which a program is fed by satellite or other means to stations nationwide, although

3416-407: Is owned collectively by the local PBS member stations. A station's importance to the system is built as much or more on the programming it produces for national distribution (a metric which places WNET as a strong third-place contender behind WGBH in Boston and WETA in Washington, D.C.) instead of local media market size. The jointly-owned KCET and KOCE are the primary and secondary PBS stations in

3538-411: Is seen the calls of CBS's KCBS (AM) being based in their original city of San Francisco instead of Los Angeles (the use of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles only dates back to 1984), while KNBR (which was subsequently sold to another party by NBC in 1987) was formerly known as KNBC before the network moved those calls to KRCA-TV in Los Angeles in 1962. ABC, CBS and NBC are headquartered in New York City, which

3660-483: Is the flagship station of Graham Media Group ; and WGN-TV in Chicago was the flagship station of Tribune Broadcasting until it was purchased by Nexstar Media Group in 2019. In essence, a flagship can be located in the market where the station's owner is headquartered, or in the largest market where that owner operates. For example, WSB-TV in Atlanta is the flagship of Cox Media Group , because Cox's headquarters

3782-556: Is the largest television market in the U.S., so their respective radio and television stations in that market are considered the overall network flagship stations. As programming schedules increased and modern technology improved transmission to affiliates, the networks set up operations centers in New York City (for the East Coast feed) and Los Angeles (for the West Coast feed). Los Angeles is the second largest television market in

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3904-810: Is the radio flagship station of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, which feeds Orioles' games to 20 stations in Maryland and adjacent states. A flagship television station is the principal privately owned television station of a television network in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Australia and the Philippines. In the late 1920s, network owned-and-operated stations (or "O&O") for radio in New York City began producing live entertainment and news programs, fed by telephone lines to affiliates. These eventually were dubbed flagship stations. When television networks were formed in

4026-496: Is used as Superman's " leitmotif ", was often used whenever he was depicted flying or in action. While considered simple by today's standards, the "flying" effects on Adventures of Superman were advanced for the time. Throughout the series, Superman's "flying" involved three phases: take-off, flight, and landing. Cables and wires were used for Superman's take-offs early in filming. For season one episodes, stuntmen took Reeves' place whenever cables and wires were used for take offs. At

4148-552: The CRTC has considered CIII-DT-41 "the originating station" of Global Ontario. The secondary French-language networks TVA and Noovo are not carried terrestrially in Western Canada, although they are usually available on pay television . Networks/systems with only one flagship station As of 2017, Mexico's national networks hold a nationwide virtual channel , thus all of the flagship stations mentioned below in most of

4270-586: The Echo Park section of Los Angeles were often used in episodes such as "The Face and the Voice" during the second season. Another Los Angeles stock footage landmark was the Griffith Observatory , which had several appearances in the series, such as Jor-El's home/laboratory. Aside from a few clips of New York City used in "Superman on Earth", most of the stock clips used to depict Metropolis are of

4392-756: The National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association . This trend is reversing in the 2020's. KJZZ (Utah Jazz) and KTVK (Phoenix Suns) are flagship stations in the NBA, as both teams have contracts with station groups (Sinclair in Utah and Gray in Phoenix). The National Football League has a different structure, as all games require over-the-air broadcast and the league and teams are generally loath to use only

4514-720: The Philippines (though it is seldomly used), while the term key station ( キー局 , kī kyoku ) is primarily used in TV in Japan (and formerly in the United States). Lotteries Shows Networks Events A flagship radio station is the principal station from which a radio network 's programs are fed to affiliates . In the United States, traditional radio networks currently operate without flagship stations as defined in this article. Network operations and those of

4636-409: The film noir –like early episodes, Superman is seen as a semi-mysterious presence who is unknown to many crooks, but eventually they know who he is. The first season's episodes usually featured action-packed, dark, gritty, and often violent story lines in which Superman fought gangsters and crime lords. Many characters died in these episodes, with some deaths being shown onscreen. In the color seasons,

4758-477: The first oil crisis in 1973, many of TBS's sideline investments encountered operational difficulties. Consequently, TBS focused its resources on broadcasting and television, selling shares in subsidiaries such as TBS Encyclopedia Britannica. Although TBS’s profits declined for two consecutive years in 1974 and 1975 due to the Japanese economic downturn, turnover and profit began to rise again after 1976. By 1977,

4880-520: The "Five Station Alliance" to strengthen cooperation in various fields. In October 1960, KRT was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. To reflect the reality that television had replaced radio broadcasting as the company's main business, Radio Tokyo changed its name to Tokyo Broadcasting on November 28, 1960, and the English abbreviation changed from KRT to TBS. KRT began trial broadcasting of color TV on February 2, 1959. On September 10 of

5002-446: The "unofficial" season one finale. Phyllis Coates, like George Reeves, was a popular lead in B features of the period. For the TV series, Reeves asked that Coates receive equal star billing as Lois Lane, an enterprising reporter who tries to outdo Clark Kent at getting major news stories. Jack Larson's Jimmy Olsen is a Daily Planet intern, often investigating wrongdoings. The villains often catch him, and Superman has to rescue him. In

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5124-851: The 32-story Los Angeles City Hall were used as the Planet building, and the sidewalk entrance to the Planet was a studio-bound "exterior". Many exteriors in the first season were shot at the RKO Pictures backlot, called "Forty Acres" . Hillsides in Culver City, city streets of downtown Los Angeles, and residential areas of the San Fernando Valley were sometimes used as exteriors. In later seasons, filming occurred on sound stages , with exterior shots, such as cars driving along roadways, shot as second-unit material, often with doubles. Establishing shots of Queen of Angels Hospital in

5246-561: The American way! And now, another exciting episode in the Adventures of Superman ! From the second season onward, the final sentence ("and now, another exciting episode in the Adventures of Superman !") was dropped. In later syndication, when Kellogg's was no longer the sponsor, the episode openings were re-edited to remove the opening line relating to them. The score for the series was taken from stock music libraries, often adaptations of music from B-movies. For example, one cue used in

5368-509: The Japanese product exhibition held in Beijing , where they conducted a TV broadcast test in China for the first time. At the beginning of 1959, the third and fourth flagship stations in the Tokyo area, Nippon Educational Television (now TV Asahi ) and Fuji TV , began broadcasting—NET on February 1 and Fuji TV on March 1. Around the same time, a large number of people purchased TV sets to watch

5490-445: The Los Angeles area. The show's title card imitated the three-dimensional lettering of the comic book covers. There have been disputes about the article "the", since it was spoken by narrators in voice-overs. Some references title the show " The Adventures of Superman"; other books, as well as TV Guide listings, simply label the show " Superman ". The onscreen title of the show is Adventures of Superman . Bill Kennedy , framed by

5612-453: The Los Angeles market respectively, while KLCS is a tertiary PBS station. In sports broadcasting, the flagship television station is the sports team's primary station in the team's home market that produces NFL preseason telecasts, along with in-season surrounding programming such as team, coach's, and pre-game/post-game shows and feeds them to affiliates. For example, WJBK in Detroit is

5734-509: The New York City area held an official primary role with PBS predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). There cannot be any owned-and-operated stations within the Public Broadcasting Service; individual PBS stations are typically owned by local non-profit groups (such as WPBS-TV ), universities (such as KPBS ) or state-level entities as part of a state network (such as KETA-TV and WGTV ). The system itself

5856-710: The Soviet Union announced in November 1990 that Akiyama would be Japan's first astronaut, with Kikuchi as an alternate. On December 2, 1990, Toyohiro Akiyama flew to the Mir space station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft, becoming the first Japanese person and the first reporter to enter space. TBS aired a special program every night from December 1 to 10, providing comprehensive live coverage of Akiyama’s space journey. On December 10, Akiyama returned to Earth safely. In October 1989, TBS made major adjustments to its program schedule, achieving

5978-512: The TV department's turnover surpassed 168.8 billion yen. Taking advantage of the favorable financing conditions during the bubble economy, TBS decided to build a new headquarters in the late 1980s. On the 40th anniversary of its launch, TBS signed a cooperation agreement with Glavkosmos , the foreign trade and aviation authority of the Soviet Union , in March 1989. The agreement aimed to send

6100-650: The U.S., and traditional home to the motion picture industry and its pool of popular talent, one of the reasons the radio networks set up operations there in the 1930s and 1940s (just as the medium of television was starting to take off). This arrangement is reversed for the Fox Broadcasting Company . When Fox was launched in 1986, its network operations center was (and still is) based in Los Angeles. However, Fox's parent company, Fox Corporation (which spun off its broadcasting properties in July 2013 into

6222-504: The United States in the late 1940s and grew during the early 1950s, network-owned stations in New York City became the production centers for programs originating on the East Coast, feeding affiliates of ABC , CBS , and NBC in the eastern three-fourths of the country. Stations in Los Angeles similarly started producing programs on the West Coast, feeding affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone , Alaska and Hawaii . Consequently,

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6344-486: The affiliation across most of the former WB affiliates they owned at the time. Nexstar Media Group then bought Tribune in 2019; however, it had to sell off WPIX to the E. W. Scripps Company to prevent breaching the required market ownership cap set by the FCC for each broadcaster. Two years after WPIX returned to Nexstar control through partner company Mission Broadcasting , the Irving, Texas-based media firm announced that it would buy 75% of CW's shares in August 2022. With

6466-453: The camera, and onto padding. The springboard had enough force, along with subtle camera manipulation, to make it look as though he was actually taking off. The typical technique had footage of Reeves stretched out on a spatula-like device formed to his torso and leg, operated on a counterweight like a boom microphone, allowing him to bank as if in flight. In some later episodes, such as "The Atomic Secret", Reeves simulated flying, opting to lie on

6588-682: The color episodes, the simpler and cheaper technique of a neutral cyclorama backing was used, usually sky-blue or black for night shots. Techniques for landings involved Reeves jumping off a ladder or holding an off-camera horizontal bar and swinging down into frame. Recurring characters include Phillips Tead as Professor Pepperwinkle, Sterling Holloway as Professor Oscar Quinn, Danny Sue Nolan , Aline Towne , and Almira Sessions as Miss Bacharach, and Everett Glass as Professor Lucerne. Tris Coffin ; Herb Vigran ; John Eldredge , best known as Harry Archer on Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Philip Van Zandt ; and Ben Welden made multiple appearances over

6710-525: The company's upper management. In response to this incident, TBS began broadcasting the self-verification program TBS Review in 1997. In response to the multi-channel landscape introduced by satellite TV, TBS launched its 24-hour news channel, TBS NEWS BIRD (now TBS NEWS DIG), in 1998. On December 1, 2000, TBS's BS satellite TV channel, BS-i (now BS-TBS), officially began broadcasting. In 2000, TBS established three subsidiaries: TBS Radio and Communications (TBSラジオ&コミュニケーションズ, now TBS Radio), responsible for

6832-546: The country are on the same channel on the rest of the stations in each network with some exceptions along the American, Guatemalan and Belizean border areas. Source: Notes The total number of stations is including the three stations listed in the table. Among the subkey stations, the four major networks are wide area stations.TXN network member stations (Osaka and Aichi) are prefectural area broadcasts. There are 13 independent stations in Japan. Note Sonshine's main headquarters are in Davao City, but also has

6954-507: The course of the show, always as different villains. Actors who landed Superman guest appearances early in their careers include: Other veteran film and television actors making appearances on the show included Dona Drake , George E. Stone , James Craven , Dan Seymour , Victor Sen Yung , Maudie Prickett , John Doucette , Norma Varden , Roy Barcroft , Elizabeth Patterson , and George Chandler . Director Tommy Carr 's brother Steve appeared as an unbilled extra in nearly every one of

7076-444: The credits. The theme has been ascribed to studio music arranger Leon Klatzkin , although it was certainly adapted from the earlier Superman March written by Sammy Timberg for the 1940's Superman cartoons. Except for the title theme, musical cues ranged in tone and were different for each season, except for the third season, where some cues from the previous season would be reused in several episodes. The opening credits theme, which

7198-445: The device without the molded form to support his legs, which are seen to hang from the waist in those episodes. In the two monochrome seasons, Reeves was occasionally filmed in front of aerial footage on a back-projection screen or against a neutral background, which would provide a matte which would be optically combined with a swish-pan or aerial shot. This footage was matted onto various backgrounds by which he would appear to fly. For

7320-433: The end of season one, cables and wires stopped being used, and were later dropped altogether by the end of season two. As well, special effects head Daniel "Danny" Hays left the series. By this time, a springboard was brought in for take off scenes, designed by the series' other SFX supervisor, Thol "Si" Simonson. Reeves would run into frame and hit the out-of-frame springboard, which would boost him out of frame, sometimes over

7442-401: The episode "Peril by Sea" also appears in Plan 9 from Outer Space . Another cue, used in the second season episodes "The Machine that Could Plot Crimes", "Jungle Devil", The Clown Who Cried", and "The Golden Vulture", came from the seventh variation of Miklos Rozsa 's "Theme, Variations & Finale", Op. 13, from 1933. There was original music written for the series, such as the March used in

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7564-428: The final years of the Cold War , TBS President Kazumi Tanaka invited McKinsey & Company in 1990 to conduct a comprehensive corporate identity redesign. The following year, Dentsu was selected through bidding to refresh TBS's corporate image and launched the "Microcosmos" logo. TBS also set a goal of achieving a group turnover of 500 billion yen by 2000 and aimed to increase the turnover from non-TV segments to 40% of

7686-428: The first 26 shows and frequently in more substantial character roles. He was also the show's dialogue director and was the man pointing "up in the sky" in the introductions of the black-and-white shows. Producers planned to continue Adventures of Superman in 1959 with two more years' worth of episodes, to begin airing in the 1960 season. The death of actor John Hamilton threw the plan into disarray. Actor Pierre Watkin

7808-496: The first satellite broadcast between Japan and the United States, covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy . In the early 1960s, spurred by the 1964 Summer Olympics , TBS experienced rapid growth. By 1965, TBS reported a turnover of 14.702 billion yen and a profit of 1.673 billion yen. To diversify income beyond advertising, TBS funded the establishment of the Tokyo Electronics Research Institute (now Tokyo Power Technology) in 1963. From 1961 to 1964, TBS constructed TBS Hall on

7930-441: The first season, with Noel Neill , who had previously played Lois in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), taking over starting with the second season. In the series, Superman battles crooks, gangsters, and other villains in the city of Metropolis while masquerading "off duty" as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent. In most of the series' episodes, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, Clark's colleagues in

8052-467: The flagship station for Belo , as its headquarters were located in Dallas. KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh served as the flagship station for New York City-based Westinghouse Broadcasting for decades as its parent company was Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation ; ironically, KDKA-TV lost its flagship status due to Westinghouse acquiring CBS, as opposed to another company acquiring Westinghouse. The same also can be said for Nexstar listed two of

8174-490: The flagship station of the Detroit Lions Television Network , which feeds Detroit Lions pre-season football games to six stations in Michigan. However, the "sports flagship television station" is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, with the growing popularity of cable- and satellite-exclusive regional sports networks such as Fox Sports Networks and NBC Sports Regional Networks , which hold exclusive broadcast rights to several teams in their market for Major League Baseball ,

8296-544: The flagship stations of the group. The term is also used for stations that operate satellite stations in other cities. For example, KSNW in Wichita, Kansas is the flagship station of the Kansas State Network, a chain of NBC affiliates serving western and central Kansas as well as border areas of Nebraska. Adventures of Superman (TV series) Adventures of Superman is an American superhero television series based on comic book characters and concepts that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created in 1938. The show

8418-495: The following year, KRT officially launched color TV broadcasts, becoming one of the first eight TV channels in Japan to do so. At that time, TBS believed that color TV technology was not yet fully developed, and as a result, it was less active in colorizing its programs compared to other Japanese TV stations. In October 1970, TBS completed its transition to color broadcasting, with its first primetime broadcasts using NTSC-J color for non-news programming. In October 1961, in response to

8540-431: The group's total turnover. As a result, TBS regained the top spot in ratings in 1993. However, the overly radical reforms led to dissatisfaction within TBS. Additionally, the decrease in advertising revenue following the collapse of the bubble economy caused TBS's turnover and profit to decline in 1991. It was also revealed that TBS had received compensation for investment losses from Nomura Securities . These issues led to

8662-465: The home of Sasuke ( Ninja Warrior ), whose format inspired similar programs outside Japan. Sasuke itself was a spinoff of the TBS game show Kinniku Banzuke , which ran for seven seasons. On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms— TV Tokyo , Nikkei, Inc. , WOWOW , Dentsu , and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners announced that they would jointly establish a new company, Paravi , in July to offer paid online video services . TBS Holdings became

8784-412: The largest shareholder of the new company, Premium Platform Japan, with a 31.5% stake. Yasuhiro Takatsuna, an official from TBS Holdings, was appointed as the new company's president. Its predecessor, Radio Tokyo, Inc. , was established in 1951 as a general broadcaster. On April 1, 1955, it launched as the second privately owned TV station in Japan, following Nippon Television , and simultaneously became

8906-464: The last episodes, "The Perils of Superman", which was one of three episodes George Reeves directed, there was high stakes as the characters found themselves in perilous situations. ABC-TV aired episodes in its "Fun At Five" series during the 1957-58 season. Reeves appeared as Superman in " Lucy and Superman ", an episode of I Love Lucy that aired on January 14, 1957. In the episode, Reeves appears as himself playing TV's Superman, though George Reeves

9028-479: The local owned-and-operated or affiliated stations in the same city are now separate and may come under different corporate entities. In the U.S., CBS News Radio produces programming for distribution by Skyview Networks, but local stations WCBS and WINS in New York City and KNX (and formerly KFWB ) in Los Angeles are operated separately from the network radio news operation, under a separate company with common shareholders, Audacy, Inc. iHeartMedia follows

9150-478: The mid-1960s. On November 1, 1963, TBS eliminated the afternoon break from Monday to Thursday to provide uninterrupted broadcasting throughout the day. According to a 1963 survey by Video Research , TBS had an average audience rating of 16.7% during prime time, ranking first among all Tokyo stations. Its average full-day audience rating was 8.3%, lower than NHK's but the highest among private stations. On November 23, 1963, TBS, along with Nippon TV and NHK, conducted

9272-545: The mid-1970s, major national newspapers in Japan reorganized their equity holdings in TV stations. The Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun sold their stakes in TBS to the Mainichi Shimbun . By April 1974, the Mainichi Shimbun held a total of 9.97% of TBS shares, becoming the only newspaper shareholder among TBS’s major shareholders. However, in 1977, the Mainichi Shimbun sold most of its TBS shares due to

9394-491: The national Ion network (whose only original programming is the WNBA games in the summer as the network's schedule is completely automated ). Networks designated for digital subchannels are usually flagshipped at local stations in the home cities of their corporate headquarters. MeTV, MeTV Plus, Catchy Comedy, and Heroes & Icons are owned by Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago ; Weigel-owned WCIU carries each full network feed as

9516-482: The network's de facto East Coast and West Coast flagships, respectively, due to CBS owning half of The CW's controlling shares at the time. New York's affiliate WPIX and Los Angeles' affiliate KTLA did not have such status since the network's inception, as Tribune Media (who had a minority stake in The WB) opted not to have any controlling interest with The CW, by selling off its share of The WB; instead, to secure

9638-401: The networks' New York City stations became known as the "East Coast flagships" of their respective networks and the networks' Los Angeles stations became known as the "West Coast flagships". However, before the 1950s, San Francisco was also considered a West Coast flagship market for the networks, with much of the CBS and NBC network's West Coast news programming originating from that city. This

9760-601: The north side of its headquarters and began exploring the real estate business. In the late 1960s, TBS also established TBS Encyclopedia Britannica and TBS School of Computer Science, expanding into cultural and educational industries. In the early 1970s, TBS opened housing exhibition halls in Musashisakai, Omiya, Machida, Hachioji, and other locations, entering the housing industry. TBS’s investment in radio and television-related businesses increased from 2.1 billion yen in 1968 to 11.5 billion yen in 1973. However, following

9882-433: The number of JNN-affiliated stations had increased to 18. The JNN news agreement stipulated that each station would be responsible for news gathering in its own region and was obligated to provide the news materials it collected to JNN. It also prohibited exchanging news materials with other networks or broadcasting news programs and other content from other networks. The following year, KRT, CBC, ABC, RKB, and HBC established

10004-494: The office, find themselves in dangerous situations that only Superman's timely intervention can resolve. The opening theme is known as The Superman March . In 1987, select episodes of the show were released on VHS . In 2006, the series became available in its entirety on DVD to coincide with the DVD release of Superman Returns , the first Superman feature film in almost two decades. The feature Hollywoodland (2006) dramatized

10126-483: The one-hour program format a standard in the Japanese TV industry. In the early 1960s, Ben Casey was the most successful TV series broadcast by TBS from the United States, achieving a rating of 50.6%, which remains the highest rating for a foreign TV series broadcast in Japan. However, as TBS’s capability to produce its own programs improved, the network gradually reduced its broadcast of American TV series after

10248-561: The only TV and radio station in Tokyo (spun off in 2001). At that time, Radio Tokyo incorporated local stations into the Japan News Network (JNN) by promoting the elimination of newspaper influence in forming the news network, thereby establishing a powerful reporting system. The current TBS Television was originally established as TBS Entertainment, Inc. a production company that produced entertainment programs for Tokyo Broadcasting System (the trade name of Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd. at

10370-522: The operation of various facilities such as Akasaka Sacas and Akasaka BLITZ, along with cultural projects such as events, was inherited by the newly established company, which retained the abbreviation TBS. This company transitioned from being a production company to a general broadcaster (currently a private terrestrial core broadcaster) and joined the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association. Additionally, TBS Radio

10492-542: The pilot was filmed. Both Noel Neill and Jack Larson had minor roles in the 2006 film Superman Returns . Neill played the multimillionaire wife of Lex Luthor, played by Kevin Spacey , who dies at the beginning of the film, leaving her entire inheritance to Luthor, while Larson played a bartender. A CGI version of Reeves as Superman appears in the 2023 DC Extended Universe film The Flash . The film also retroactively establishes that Jay Garrick / The Flash exists in

10614-616: The purchase completion announced on October 3, 2022, both WPIX and KTLA formally became flagship stations for the first time. However, as part of the Nexstar agreement, Paramount was given a right with the transaction to disaffiliate all eight of their CW affiliates, which was exercised on May 5, 2023. By the time of the disaffiliations on September 1, Nexstar repatriated The CW affiliations onto their MyNetworkTV affiliates in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Tampa–St. Petersburg, announced

10736-407: The purchase of Detroit station WADL through affiliate company Mission Broadcasting, and signed long-term agreements with Hearst Television , Gray Television Sinclair Broadcast Group , and the E. W. Scripps Company . East Coast flagships are normally in the New York City designated market area (DMA), while the West Coast flagships are located in the Los Angeles area. WCAU in Philadelphia

10858-488: The radio division in 1957. In the early days of broadcasting, American TV series such as Adventures of Superman and Lassie played a role in KRT's program schedule. 77 Sunset Strip , which began airing in 1960, also sparked a ratings boom. In terms of technology, in July 1955, KRT and Toshiba jointly developed Japan's first domestic TV studio camera. The following year, KRT and Hokkaido Broadcasting jointly participated in

10980-405: The radio division; TBS Entertainment (TBSエンタテインメント), responsible for TV program production; and TBS Sports (TBSスポーツ), responsible for sports programs. Concurrently with these structural reforms, TBS introduced the "Ji~n" logo. In 2001, TBS established TBS LIVE (TBSライブ, now known as U-Next Paravi Corner), which is responsible for producing information programs. That same year, the call sign of TBS TV

11102-466: The recovery of the Japanese economy and TBS's improved ratings in the mid-1990s, the turnover of the TBS TV department increased to 192.307 billion yen in 1995. In 1996, the turnover of the TBS TV division exceeded 200 billion yen for the first time. In April 1995, TBS launched its website. However, in 1996, a scandal involving TBS video tapes seriously damaged its credibility, leading to the resignation of

11224-538: The resignation of Tanaka and Izumi in October 1991, and many of the corporate identity reform measures were abolished the following year. The aftermath of the bubble economy further worsened TBS's operating conditions. By 1992, TBS's profit had fallen to only 1.7 billion yen, and the ratings continued to decline as the company faced challenges. From April to September 1992, TBS's prime-time ratings were only 11.7%, dropping to fifth place in Tokyo. In October 1992, TBS made

11346-401: The rising challenge from Fuji TV, which was seeing increasing ratings, TBS undertook a major reorganization of its program schedule. American TV dramas and music programs for young audiences were scheduled for 7:00 pm, American TV series at 8:00 pm, and TBS's self-produced TV series at 9:00 pm This new arrangement boosted TBS’s ratings and prompted other stations to adopt similar schedules, making

11468-569: The same year, the Radio Supervision Committee announced the granting of a preliminary license to Nippon Television, while holding off on the applications of NHK (because the National Assembly needed to pass NHK's business plan) and Radio Tokyo (due to its recent establishment). On January 16 of the following year, Radio Tokyo obtained a TV preparatory license. After the completion of its TV headquarters, Radio Tokyo

11590-641: The second season finale. Adventures of Superman began filming at the RKO-Pathé studios , later Desilu Studios , in Culver City, California , in August–September 1951. It was a low-budget program by the standards of its time, as episodes cost roughly $ 15,000 apiece. From 1953 to 1954, the show was filmed at California Studios and in 1955 it was filmed at Charlie Chaplin Studios . From 1956 to 1957, it

11712-497: The separate 21st Century Fox , then that company spun off many of its film and cable assets to Disney in 2019), is headquartered in New York City, along with its news division . Fox-owned WNYW in New York City is considered the network's overall flagship, while sister station KTTV in Los Angeles is considered a second flagship station. In 2006, when The WB and UPN merged to form The CW , Philadelphia station WPSG and San Francisco station KBCW (now KPYX) were designated as

11834-483: The show may also originate elsewhere or from a home studio via an ISDN line. Some programs are simulcast on television, while others are simulcasted on XM Satellite Radio and / or Sirius Satellite Radio . Flagship stations of prominent syndicated radio programs currently include: In sports broadcasting, the flagship radio station is the sports team's primary station in the team's home market that produces game broadcasts and feeds them to affiliates. For example, WJZ-FM

11956-459: The show's production and the death of George Reeves. In November 1951, California exhibitor and B-movie producer Robert L. Lippert released a 58-minute black-and-white film starring George Reeves and Phyllis Coates called Superman and the Mole Men , with a script by Robert Maxwell and direction by Lee Sholem . The film served as a pilot for Adventures of Superman and prompted

12078-422: The show's theme music, voiced its opening narration, which was expanded from of the 1940s radio show and the 1940s Superman cartoons . The opening narration of the show set the stage for each program: Kellogg, 'The Greatest Name In Cereals', presents the Adventures of Superman ! Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a mighty locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! ("Look! Up in

12200-431: The sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!" "It's Superman!") Yes, it's Superman ... strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men! Superman ... who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent , mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and

12322-477: The start of production of the first season in August/September of the same year. However, the series discontinued production and remained unaired until September 1952, when cereal manufacturer Kellogg's agreed to sponsor the show, which they had previously done with the Superman radio series . The success of the series came as a complete surprise to the cast. Jack Larson recalled that, at the time, he

12444-920: The stations as flagships, one cited was WYOU-TV in Scranton , which Perry Sook said it was the flagship , the other listed was KDAF-TV in Dallas, which became its flagship after its acquisition of Tribune Media in 2019, the latter partially is located in a suburb of that city and also owns and operates several stations larger than Dallas, such as WPIX-TV in New York , KTLA in Los Angeles , WGN-TV in Chicago and WPHL-TV in Philadelphia . Shortly after its acquisition of Young Broadcasting by Media General in 2013, WRIC-TV in Richmond become one of

12566-419: The time). Since the broadcasting license was owned by the parent company, TBS, TBS Entertainment was not a member of the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association. On April 1, 2009, Tokyo Broadcasting System (which changed its trade name to Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. on the same day) underwent a corporate split. The television broadcasting business, including the television broadcasting license and

12688-978: The top spot in prime-time ratings from October 1984 through March 1985. Despite this, the turnover of TBS's television department was surpassed by Nippon Television and Fuji Television in 1984. By 1985, Fuji TV had also surpassed TBS in overall turnover. Meanwhile, in response to the trend towards multi-channel broadcasting, TBS actively pursued new ventures. In 1984, TBS participated in establishing Japan Satellite Broadcasting (now Wowow and U-Next ) and began broadcasting TV information in 1986. Compared to Fuji TV, which focuses on younger audiences, TBS targets family audiences and offers greater program diversity. However, from April to September 1987, TBS's prime-time ratings were surpassed by other Japanese TV stations, dropping to third place among flagship stations. To counter TV Asahi's high ratings for News Station at 10:00 pm on weekdays, TBS launched JNN News 22 Prime Time in 1987 to directly compete with it. The program schedule of TBS

12810-451: The top spot in turnover among core bureaus after 1980, its profit declined for four consecutive years starting in 1980. In response to the challenge from Fuji TV, TBS introduced new programs targeting younger audiences but failed to achieve the desired results. In October 1984, TBS undertook a reorganization of its program schedule, delaying the end time of the evening news program JNN NewScope from 7:00 pm to 7:20 pm, which helped TBS regain

12932-419: The turnover of TBS’s TV department had exceeded 65.5 billion yen. On the other hand, due to high labor costs and the high ratings of outsourced TV series, TBS began promoting program outsourcing in the 1970s to reduce costs. As part of this strategy, TBS transferred some employees to a newly established program production subsidiary. In 1973, the turnover of the TBS TV department exceeded 40 billion yen. During

13054-544: The turnover of the TBS TV department exceeded 95 billion yen. TBS also made technological innovations, beginning in 1976 with the gradual introduction of the Electronic News Gathering (ENG) system, which enhanced news interviewing and editing capabilities. In November 1978, TBS began broadcasting stereo programs. In 1982, Fuji Television surpassed TBS and claimed the number one position in prime-time ratings among all core stations. Although TBS maintained

13176-756: The two flagship stations of the Media General group prior to the 2017 acquisition by Nexstar, the other flagship was WFLA in Tampa Bay , which was always the television flagship of the group. The same can even be said for Scripps , which listed WCPO-TV in Cincinnati as the flagship, but also owned Ion Media , which is several times larger than Cincinnati themselves. Even the same can be said for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which listed WBFF-TV in Baltimore and WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. , listed as

13298-428: The villains were often caricatured , and violence was toned down. The only gunfire that occurred was aimed at Superman, and he was less likely to engage in fisticuffs with the villains. On occasions when he did use physical force, he would take them out in a single blow or by banging them together. More often than not, the villains were likely to knock themselves out while fleeing from Superman. At this point, Jimmy, who

13420-437: The wedding of Crown Prince Akihito and Michiko Shoda. By April 3, 1959, the number of TV households in Japan had reached 2 million. Japan's TV advertising costs also increased from 400 million yen in 1954 to 23.8 billion yen in 1959. On April 10, 1959, KRT broadcast all of the wedding of Crown Prince (now Emperor Emeritus) Akihito and Empress Michiko , with 17 TV stations simulcasting the KRT broadcast. In June 1958, KRT signed

13542-417: Was changed from JOKR-TV to JORX-TV. On October 1, 2004, TBS merged the three subsidiaries—TBS Entertainment, TBS Sports, and TBS LIVE—into TBS TV, consolidating the wireless TV business into one company (excluding signal broadcasting and personnel brokerage). On April 1, 2009, TBS adopted the broadcasting holding company system, becoming the second core broadcaster in Japan to do so. The TV broadcasting license

13664-495: Was completely automated and produced no local programming. The network would later lease WZAA in Washington, D.C., as its lone self-operated station. Fox Sports Radio 's flagship station is KLAC in Los Angeles, with which it merged operations in 2009. SB Nation Radio is flagshipped at KGOW in Houston; one of its predecessors, Sporting News Radio , was previously flagshipped at WIDB (now WNTD ) in Chicago. CBS Sports Radio

13786-485: Was created to promote school savings-stamp plans to children, and was shown in grade schools during the 1950s. It is the only episode of the series that has entered the public domain . It features Clark Kent/Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane as well as Tristram Coffin as a government spokesman and Billy Nelson as a criminal. The film was released on the Season Two DVD box set of The Adventures of Superman as

13908-484: Was entrusted with the maintenance and management of the company's transmitting station in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture. Matsutarō Shōriki , the former owner of Yomiuri Shimbun , first proposed the idea of private broadcasting in Japan in 1951. In June of the following year, NHK , Yomiuri Shimbun, and Radio Tokyo (the first private radio broadcaster) were among the first to apply for a TV broadcast license. In July of

14030-431: Was filmed at Ziv Studios . The establishing shot of The Daily Planet in the first season was the E. Clem Wilson Building in Los Angeles , California , on Wilshire Boulevard , which was famous for decades as the headquarters of Mutual of Omaha . The Carnation Milk Company Building, located a few blocks east on Wilshire, served as The Daily Planet ' s front door. From the second season onward, stock shots of

14152-442: Was granted an official TV broadcasting license on January 28, 1955. At 10 am on April 1, 1955, Radio Tokyo TV (shortened to KRT) began broadcasting. According to a KRT survey conducted from November to December 1955, KRT's average audience rating from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm was 24.4%, slightly ahead of Nippon TV's 24.1% and NHK's 21.9%. The income of Radio Tokyo's television division increased after broadcasting began, surpassing that of

14274-540: Was hired to replace Hamilton as "Perry White's brother". Watkin had played Perry White himself in the two Columbia serials and had guested on the series before. The sudden death of the show's star George Reeves in June 1959 was not the end of the series either, in the producers' eyes. When Jack Larson returned from Europe after the death of Reeves, producers suggested the series could continue as "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen", with more focus on Larson's character, playing opposite

14396-485: Was in New York City , and his newfound fame caught him off guard. The initial feature film, Superman and the Mole Men , was subsequently edited into a two-part storyline called "The Unknown People" and was to be broadcast mid-season, but it went unaired until the two-parter was added to the syndication package of some stations in 1954. It was the only multi-part storyline of the series, and is sometimes broadcast as

14518-405: Was inherited by TBS TV, and the original TBS corporate entity was renamed "Tokyo Broadcasting Holdings" (now TBS Holdings), becoming a broadcasting holding company that simply holds shares in the group's subsidiaries. In October 2005, the internet company Rakuten acquired a 19.09% stake in TBS for approximately 88 billion yen, becoming TBS's largest shareholder. Lotte Group proposed establishing

14640-592: Was significantly adjusted due to this new addition. However, JNN News 22 Prime Time only aired for a year due to low ratings. Its successor, JNN News Desk '88・'89 , also failed to disrupt News Station 's dominance during this period. After April 1988, TBS's prime-time ratings began to decline, with the decline accelerating after April 1989. Despite this downturn, which coincided with Japan's bubble economy, TBS's financial performance continued to improve. In 1987 and 1988, TBS's turnover grew by 12% for two consecutive years. In 1989, TBS's profit exceeded 11.7 billion yen, and

14762-913: Was the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO - Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. Cereal manufacturer Kellogg's sponsored the show. The first and last airdates of the show, which was produced for first-run syndication rather than for a network, are disputed, but they are generally accepted as September 19, 1952, and April 28, 1958. The show's first two seasons (episodes 1–52, 26 titles per season) were filmed in black-and-white; seasons three through six (episodes 53–104, 13 titles per season) were filmed in color . George Reeves played Superman, with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen , John Hamilton as Perry White , and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson . Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in

14884-416: Was very popular with viewers, was being played as the show's comic foil to Superman. Most plots had Jimmy and Lois being captured, only for Superman to rescue them at the last minute. Scripts for the sixth and final season reestablished some of the show's seriousness, often utilizing science fiction elements such as a Kryptonite -powered robot, atomic explosions , and impregnable metal cubes . In one of

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