JCTEA: Japan Cable Television Engineering Association

About Us
Objectives and Business
Organization
Location



JCTEA main site in Japanese

About Us

Cable Television, CATV, not only takes an important role in realizing comfortable society and affluent life by continuously delivering viewers the latest world news and daily information, but also aims to be the core medium in the broadband service arena.
Japan Cable Television Engineering Association (JCTEA) supports the rapid progress of the CATV industry on the hardware side.

Founded in July 1975 with the approval of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (reorganized as Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication in 2000), JCTEA currently comprises about 700 member corporations engaged in designing, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of CATV facilities.

Currently, JCTEA also works on enhancing and facilitating the implementation and introduction of digital terrestrial television broadcasting especially for communal reception facilities of multi-story housing but also for communal reception facilities in urban areas and remote places with poor reception.


Objectives and Business


JCTEA targets to contribute to a smooth and sound development of an advanced information society through the improvement and diffusion of the CATV technology and the realization of the good TV reception environment.

Business

・Conducting technical studies and developing on CATV facility.
・Establishing technical standards for CATV facility.
・Conducting research and technical consultation on the reception of TV signal for introduction of digital terrestrial broadcasting.
・Conducting technical studies on TV reception disturbance caused by buildings.
・Sponsoring training and certification of "Cable TV Broadcast Engineers".
・Hosting workshops and lectures on CATV technology.
・Providing guidance for application procedures for installation of CATV facilities.
・Publication of magazines and reference books on CATV facilities.

Organization

Chairman

 Akira Ando

Vice Chairman

 Hiroshi Asami
 Hideto Abe
 Yoshimasa Hashiyama
 Mitsuo Watanabe
 Yoshimi Mitsuya
 Hiroyuki Iida
 Kazutaka Ogura
 Isamu Yamamoto
 Executive Managing Director
 Kiiichiro Shimada

(as of Otcober 2009)

Location

Headquarters

La Valetti Shinjuku Building 6F, 6-28-8, Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
160-0022 Japan
Phone: 03 (5273) 4671
Fax: 03 (5273) 4675
E-mail  asami@catv.or.jp
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