Japan Consortium

The Japan Consortium (ジャパンコンソーシアム Japan Konsōshiamu) is a joint venture set up by the Japanese public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and several commercial television and radio networks under the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) in 1984 to cover broadcasts of the Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.

Participating Media Outlets

Television

Free-to-Air

• NHK (NHK-G)
• Fuji Television (CX)
• Nippon Television (NTV)
• Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS-TV)
• TV Asahi (EX)
• TV Tokyo (TX)
• UHF independent TV stations

Broadcast Satellite

• NHK BS-1
• BS Asahi
• BS Fuji
• BS Japan
• BS Nittele
• BS-TBS

Radio

AM

• NHK Radio 1
• Nippon Broadcasting System (LF)
• Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (QR)
• TBS Radio & Communications (TBS R&C)

FM

• NHK FM Broadcast
• InterFM
• J-Wave (FMJ)
• Tokyo FM (TFM)

Shortwave

• Radio Nikkei

Others

• NOTTV (smartphones, since 2012)
• WOWOW (FIFA World Cup only)

Coverages

Winter Olympic Games

Date	Announcers
1998	Hiroshi Akiyama (NHK), Yasuo Fujii (NHK), Masahiro Hayashi (TBS), Fujio Kariya (NHK), Mitsuhiko Kubota (TX), Saburo Kudo (NHK), Takao Masuda (NTV), Ichiro Matsumoto (NHK), Naoki Morinaga (NHK), Masao Nose (NHK), Masakazu Nozaki (CX), Noboru Okitani (NHK), Toshiharu Shimamura (NHK), Yuichi Tabata (EX), Genji Wada (NHK), Suenori Yamashita (NTV), Hiroshi Yamamoto (NHK)
2002	Hiroyuki Fukuzawa (NHK), Hiroshi Ishikawa (NHK), Eiji Iwasa (NHK), Fujio Kariya (NHK), Masahiro Kiyohara (TBS), Saburo Kudo (NHK), Hidekimi Kojima (TX), Naoki Morinaga (NHK), Tetsuo Nakasaka (CX), Masao Nose (NHK), Noboru Okitani (NHK), Yasuyuki Onozuka (NHK), Yuichi Tabata (EX), Masaru Tashiro (NHK), Hiroshi Tashiyo (NTV), Kazuo Tomisaka (NHK), Takahiro Tosaki (TBS), Toshiya Uchiyama (NHK), Hiroshi Yamamoto (NHK)
2006	Hiroshi Ishikawa (NHK), Fujio Kariya (NHK), Riyo Kawamura (NTV), Hidekimi Kojima (TX), Shoichiro Mori (CX), Shigeru Obara (NHK), Eiji Okuma (EX), Daisuke Shimizu (TBS), Yashihiro Takeba (NHK), Takahiro Tanaka (NHK), Kazuo Tomisaka (NHK), Nobuo Yoshida (CX)
2010	Takahiko Fujii (NTV), Hiroshi Ishikawa (NHK), Fujio Kariya (NHK), Toshiyuki Matsuyama (NHK), Takahiro Nishioka (CX), Wataru Ogasawara (TBS), Hirohisa Shimada (TX), Junya Shindo (EX), Masaru Sone (NHK), Yashihiro Takeba (NHK), Kazuo Tomisaka (NHK)

Summer Olympic Games

Date	Announcers
2000	TV - Yasuo Fujii (NHK), Masashi Funakoshi (NTV), Masahiro Hayashi (TBS), Eiji Iwasa (NHK), Saburo Kudo (NHK), Shinpei Michiya (NHK), Keikishi Morishita (EX), Yuji Nakamura (ABC), Masakazu Nozaki (CX), Tsuneo Shiobara (CX), Daisuke Shimizu (TBS), Yuichi Tabata (EX), Yashihiro Takeba (NHK), Hiroshi Yamamoto (NHK), Hideharu Yotsuya (TX) Radio - Nobita Hasegawa (QR), Takatoshi Koike (NHK), Fujio Kondo (NHK), Masao Moroka (LF), Shigeru Shiino (TBS)
2004	TV - Masahiro Hayashi (TBS), Hiroshi Ishikawa (NHK), Eiji Iwasa (NHK), Fujio Kariya (NHK), Saburo Kudo (NHK), Haruyuki Kurita (NHK), Hironori Machida (NTV), Shinpei Michiya (NHK), Masaharu Miyake (CX), Keikishi Morishita (EX), Yoshihiko Murayama (NTV), Takao Nakayama (EX), Shunji Noji (NHK), Noboru Okitani (NHK), Shigeru Shiino (TBS), Yashihiro Takeba (NHK), Toshiya Uchiyama (NHK), Tomoki Uekusa (TX) Radio - Kenji Fujimoto (NHK), Keisuke Hatsuta (TBS), Shigeru Matsushima (QR), Takahiro Tanaka (NHK), Jun Tashiro (NHK), Hiroaki Yamanochi (LF), Yoshifumi Yoshimatsu (NHK)
2008	TV - Keisuke Hatsuta (TBS), Kentaro Hirakawa (NTV), Hiroshi Ishikawa (NHK), Keita Ito (NHK), Eiji Iwasa (NHK), Saburo Kudo (NHK), Yasuhiko Matsuno (NHK), Toshiyuki Matsuyama (NHK), Shinpei Michiya (NHK), Keikishi Morishita (EX), Tetsuo Nagasaka (CX), Takao Nakayama (EX), Shunji Noji (NHK), Ken Suzuki (NTV), Yashihiro Takeba (NHK), Yohei Takeshita (CX), Kazuo Tomisaka (NHK), Takahiro Tosaka (TBS), Toshiya Uchiyama (NHK), Tomoki Uekusa (TX) Radio - Masaichi Takahashi (QR),Etsuo Nitta (TBS), Ippei Ohgi (QR), Tetsushi Sakanashi (NHK), Koshi Sanbe (NHK), Takahiro Tanaka (NHK), Tomohiro Ueno (QR), Hideo Yagimatsu (LF), Yoshifumi Yoshimatsu (NHK)
2012	TV - Toshiyuki Doi (TBS), Satoshi Ebihara (NTV), Yasunoe Hirosaka (NHK), Keita Ito (NHK), Yasuhiko Matsuno (NHK), Takao Nakayama (EX), Takahiro Nishioka (CX), Wataru Ogasawara (TBS), Kazuya Saito (TX), Koshi Sanbe (NHK), Junya Shindo (EX), Masaru Sone (NHK), Yohei Takeshita (CX), Kenichiro Tanabe (NTV), Kazuo Tomisaka (NHK), Toshiya Uchiyama (NHK), Tomoki Uekusa (TX), Kenji Watanabe (NHK), Tatsuya Yamaguchi (NHK), Hiroshi Yamamoto (NHK) Radio - Yuji Araikawa (LF), Futoshi Hasegawa (QR), Mitsunori Kemuyama (LF), Masahide Ota (NHK), Tetsushi Sakanashi (NHK), Emiyasu Sato (TBS), Riyo Sugisawa (NHK), Kenjiro Toyohara (NHK)