History
On December 12, 1952, the then president of Minaminihon Shimbun, Yoshitaka Hatakata, proposed the idea of setting up a private broadcast in Kagoshima Prefecture. The original plan for its station was to have a transmission power of 3,000 watts, with which it could cover the whole of mainland Kagoshima Prefecture, the southern part of Kumamoto and Miyazaki Prefectures, and the south-western Kagoshima Islands.As plans for the new broadcaster were known to the public, there were initial opposition from the then governor of Kagoshima Prefecture, Shigenari Tadasu, and local investors, as they believed there's no need to establish a private broadcaster in the prefecture. After Hatakata convinced the prefectural government and local investors to establish a private broadcaster, that decision was reversed. == References ==