The only television station in Japan (NHK) is owned by the Japanese government. In the year or so that it has been going, it has been telecasting one night a weeklectures, political speeches, an occasional string quartet. There are only about 500 viewers in Japan; they all have home-built sets. Last week the lucky 500 heard good news: the Nippon Television Network Corp. (backed by a group of newspapers) applied for a license, and announced that it would begin competition with NHK early next year.
N.T.N.C. will rely almost entirely on U.S. technicians and equipment at first, plans to show plays, movies,...