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Koji Kamibayashi (born October 10, 1960 in Sapporo, Japan), was the founder and CEO of TV Tokyo Broadband. ^[1] TV Tokyo Broadband is also know as TXBB, ^[2] which went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2005 (3786:Tokyo).^[3] He also was the largest shareholder of InterFM (officially: FM Inter-Wave) in Tokyo, Japan.

As CEO of TXBB, he was responsible for bringing many famous animations such as Peanuts, Snoopy and Woodstock, France's Miffy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Russia's Cheburashka, among others, to Japan. ^[4] He also revived the fortunes of the children's program Sesame Street^[5] when he created a consortium to control the shows fortunes in Japan after NHK dropped it; the consortium soon turned it around and made Sesame Street into a successful program in Japan.

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[1] "TV Tokyo affiliate to become biggest shareholder in FM Inter-Wave",

[2] "Reuters: TV TOKYO BROADBAND ENTERTAINMENT,INC.",

[3] "businessweek.com TXBB",

[4] "Cheburash: Animation Phenomenon Goes to TV Tokyo Broadband",

[5] "5 Firms to Set Up Consortium for Sesame Street Biz in Japan",

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