NHK Education TV

I'll start to write articles about NHK, in particular NHK Education TV this week.I watched this program when I was a child. At first,I thought it was TV program for kids, but it turned out to be wrong...

・How is it?
It was started 1959.1.11. It is one program of NHK and from 2011.6.11, its name was changed to "NHK Etere". This name's "E" has meaning of not only "Education" but also "Ecology". As this name, it has mainly programs about cultural and linguistic education, but broadcasts animes and dramas for children and high school and university sports. By the way, the most high audience rating was 29.4% on the baseball game program at Koshien in 1979. In ETV's history, there was an issue, "What time does this program finished?" Before the later 1990s, it finished at 24:00. But after that, it has broadcast later than 24:00.

Next week topic is about NHK Radio.
See you!!

This picture is 2355, my favorite NHK Etere's program.