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While some say the TV industry is facing difficult times, I see a golden opportunity.

Broadcasting is a highly competitive industry based on producing content for the public airwaves entrusted to us. Since our establishment, the TBS Group has worked to create a wide variety of quality content, from news and live sports to dramas and variety programs. I am just one member of the team at TBS who have helped to contribute to this content creation.

Thanks to the growth of digital technology, TBS content now reaches not only into people’s living rooms via radio and television but streams around the world on computers, smartphones and tablets. The potential reach of high-quality content is greater than ever before.

This past summer’s hit film Last Mile represents TBS’s new approach to content creation, which we call the shared universe. This means the story of Last Mile is set in the same fictional world as Unnatural and MIU404, two of our most popular past dramas, and is brought to life by some of the same actors reprising their original roles.

Thanks to the box office release of Last Mile, these two dramas, which originally aired on Japanese TV, are now reaching new, global audiences via streaming. This is a great example of how the fusion of broadcasting and digital is opening new opportunities for quality content.

“From each moment, a better tomorrow.”

This is the TBS Group’s brand promise. We define quality content as whatever moves people. In addition to broadcasting, we are active not only in the lifestyle and real estate sectors but now, through a major investment last year, in the education and knowledge acquisition business as well. We consider all of these initiatives to be forms of content creation.

We are embarking on a new era for the TBS Group, and we have positioned 2024 as “The First Year of Global Business” We’ve established new bases of operation in North America and South Korea.

In Japan, meanwhile, our Akasaka Entertainment City urban revitalization project—which aims to breathe new life through live entertainment and culture into the iconic area of Tokyo that is home to TBS headquarters—is steadily moving toward completion in 2028.

The TBS Group will continue to take on new challenges. And, never sacrificing our social mission or compromising our brand promise, we will continue to fulfill our duty as a media organization committed to ensuring the safety and security of people around the world.

We look forward to your continued support.

TBS Holdings, Inc.
President & Chief Executive Officer

Ryujiro Abe

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