The is a unit of the NHK that oversees terrestrial broadcasting in Kagoshima Prefecture.

History Radio station JOHG started broadcasting on October 26, 1935. Television broadcasts started on February 22, 1958 (JOHG-TV, JOHC-TV started on April 8, 1962).

On December 15, 1961, it installed a relay station at Naze, Amami Ōshima, the first of its kind to deliver radio signals to the remote island areas.NHK Yearbook 1962, p.188 Television reception at Naze started on June 10, 1963 for General TV, while Educational TV relays to the island started on November 1.NHK Yearbook 1975, p.312

Color broadcasts for both JOHG-TV and JOHC-TV began on March 20, 1966, but were initially limited to the mainland area of the prefecture.NHK Yearbook 1966, p.50 Color signals were made available to Amami on May 15, 1972.NHK Yearbook 1972, p.326 Work to convert the local facilities to accommodate stereo broadcasting were concluded in 1976.NHK Yearbook 1977, p.184 At an unknown date during fiscal 1983, an FM stereo line between Kagoshima and Naze was established, bringing stereo audio to the remote islands..NHK Yearbook 1984, pp.255-266; 274 JOHG-TV was converted to stereo on July 20, 1984.NHK Yearbook 1985, p.101 NHK+ added Kagoshima programming on May 15, 2023.Expanding local news distribution with NHK Plus

For its 90th anniversary, NHK Kagoshima used the slogan "Aimo, koimo", which in the local dialect means "this and that". The logo is represented by a face, where the eyes are the 90.

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