InterBEE REVIEW2011 (EN)

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62Using a wealth of experience to propose a model for a new era in broadcasting Taro Kimura has been engaged in the front lines of the media since his career began as a journalist for NHK. He went on to become a main newscaster, and is now working as a freelance journalist. In addition to his activities in the mass media he is highly involved with the internet and other new types of broad-casting, and also works as the president of a community radio company, Shonan Beach FM. He is also a member of the White Space Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com-munications, which is a committee that is finding ways to effectively utilize the terrestrial broadcasting radio frequencies that are no longer in use, as part of a new framework for digital broadcasting. As such he is part of a body that is proposing a model for a new era in broadcasting. The White Space Committee is a consultative body estab-lished to consider the effective utilization of currently unused radio band frequencies (white space), which have become available due to the advances in digital technologies that com-pressed digital broadcasting into ever-decreasing bandwidths. The committee is working on the effective utilization of limited radio wave resources. We asked Mr. Taro Kimura, a member of the White Space Committee, about the new directions taken in broadcasting, and his thoughts on the role of Inter BEE.

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