NHK will start a "social demonstration" from the end of April to provide services through dedicated apps and sites for people who do not have a TV, in order to verify the role and needs of delivering programs and information via the Internet. It was decided.

This "social demonstration" will be held several times this year in order to verify the significance and role of NHK in delivering programs and information via the Internet, and the diversifying needs of viewers as the fusion of broadcasting and communication progresses. ..



Regarding the first time, from April 22nd to May 7th, NHK will target about 3000 people, including those who do not have a TV or who do not use it on a daily basis, on the 7th. ,Announced.



Through dedicated apps and sites,


▼ a service that analyzes the spread of news that spreads rapidly on the Internet on SNS and calls attention to reliability, and


▼ a list of the latest news videos 24 hours a day. We are planning to provide functions

that can be viewed, and functions


that


visualize the contents of disaster reports on a map and use them for disaster prevention and mitigation actions


.



After that, we will conduct a questionnaire survey and

verify it from the three perspectives of


"correctly deepening and noticing",


"expanding knowledge and connecting",


and "easily finding necessary information", and we will publish the results.


NHK Chairman Maeda said at a regular press conference on the 7th, "We will provide everyone with accurate, impartial, reliable information and deep content from multiple perspectives, protecting lives and lives anytime, anywhere. , We aim to connect to the "new NHK" that plays a role as a social foundation of information more than ever. "