NHK Educational TV
Logo used since 2020 | |
| Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Japanese (English/original language available for select programs on secondary audio carrier) |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | NHK |
| Sister channels | NHK General TV NHK BS NHK BS Premium 4K NHK BS8K |
| History | |
| Launched | January 10, 1959 |
| Links | |
| Website | NHK Plus (only available in Japan) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial (ISDB) | Channel 2 |
NHK Educational TV (NHK教育テレビジョン, Enu eichi kei Kyōiku terebijon), abbreviated on-screen as NHK E, is the second television service of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). It is a sister service of NHK General TV, showing programs of a more educational, documentaries, cultural, children's or intellectual nature, periodically also showing anime, and also airing programming from Nickelodeon. A similar counterpart would be PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) of the United States (or to a lesser extent BBC Two and BBC Four of the UK). NHK displays a watermark "NHK E" at the upper right for its digital TV broadcast. In 2010, NHK began using the abbreviation E Tele (イーテレ, Ī Tere).