Like other parts of
Kantō region incorporating the
Greater Tokyo Area, media based in
Tokyo dominate the attention of the residents. Tokyo's major radio and television stations are licensed to cover the whole Kantō region. See
Japanese media for them. They have larger readership or rates than the locally based media.
Newspapers
The below are about paid daily newspapers. There are less frequently published community papers and magazines.
The Saitama Shimbun (ja:埼玉新聞, Saitama Shinbun)[1] is headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama. It has strong readership among local governments, their suppliers and employees.
Major national daily general newspapers
Yomiuri,
Asahi,
Mainichi,
Sankei, and the metropolitan paper
Tokyo Shimbun have branch offices and correspondents in the prefecture. Prefecture or area-specific pages are inserted in those wide-area papers.
Broadcasting
The below are stations whose licensed area of coverage is the whole or the most of Saitama Prefecture.
Television
Teletama or Television Saitama (analogue ch38, digital ch32) is a commercial station headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama and serves the prefecture.
NHK the national public broadcaster has NHK Saitama Broadcasting Station (NHKさいたま放送局, NHK Saitama Hōsō-kyoku) in Urawa-ku, Saitama. It has a news gathering base and a television studio but they are to feed contents for programming produced in Tokyo.
Radio
Prefectural service
FM NACK5 (エフエムナックファイブ, Efu-emu Nakku-faibu)[2] (
FM 79.5
MHz, Chichibu relay 77.5 MHz) is a commercial station headquartered in
Ōmiya-ku, Saitama.
NHK Saitama FM (NHKさいたまFM, Enu-eichi-kei Saitama efu-emu) (85.1 MHz, Chichibu relay 83.5 MHz) transmits some scheduled programming produced in Urawa-ku, Saitama to insert between ones produced in Tokyo.
Community service
FM Urawa (nicknamed Reds Wave, FM 78.3 MHz)
[3] in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Flower Radio (FM 76.7 MHz)
[4] in
Kōnosu and FM-Chappy (FM 77.7 MHz)
[5] in
Iruma, Smile FM in
Asaka[6] (FM 76.7 MHz) are community stations.
Other services
Broadcasting services that may be available but are not limited to Saitama include:
Cable television and
cable radio are available in many areas in the prefecture. They often have non-Japanese channels and / or programs. They occasionally broadcast locally produced programs. See
ja:ケーブルテレビ局の一覧#埼玉県 and
ja:有線ラジオ放送 for the list.
InterFM, a multilingual commercial station (FM 76.1 MHz) based in Tokyo officially serves Saitama City also.
Tokyo's major radio and television stations which are licensed to cover the whole Kantō region. See
Japanese media for them. The television stations offer English interpretation upon some news programs.