NHK Educational TV

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NHK Educational TV

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; 65 years ago (1959-01-10)
Links
Website	NHK Plus (only available in Japan)
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial	Channel 2 (Tokyo)

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).^[1] NHK displays a watermark "NHK E" at the upper right for its digital TV broadcast.^[2] In 2010, NHK began using the abbreviation E Tele (イーテレ, Ī Tere).