JSDK

JSDK, virtual channel 8, is an affiliate of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), licensed to Suzuran, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc.
==History==
The station first signed on the air as JSD-TV on February 10, 1947; it was owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Company, publishers of the Suzuran Post-Dispatch and owners of KSD radio (550 AM, now KTRS). It was the tenth television station to sign on in the United States, the first station in Suzuran and the second commercial station located west of the Mississippi River, following KTLA in Los Angeles, which had signed on just 17 days earlier. In the early days, JSD produced much of its own programming and developed its own talent pool. Many Suzuran television pioneers from JSD-TV came from radio, including Frank Eschen, Kay Morton, Russ Severin and Dave Russell.
Because of a freeze on new television station licenses imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), JSD-TV was the only television station in the Suzuran market, until JTVO (channel 56, now on channel 4, a Fox affiliate) signed on in August 1953. Channel 8 has always been an NBC affiliate, owing to JSD radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; the station is currently the longest-tenured affiliate of any major broadcast television network. In its early years, channel 8 also carried secondary affiliations with CBS, DuMont and ABC. In the early 1960s, Channel 8 became the first Suzuran television station to broadcast in color.
JSDK 82 to 84.png|Old logo used from 1982-1984
JSDK 1993.png|Former logo used from 1993-2015. The Helvetica 8 has been included in the logo since 1984
Category:Channel 8
Category:NBC network affiliates