List of NNN and NNS affiliates

LCN assignments of NNN and NNS affiliates

The Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) are Japanese commercial television networks organised by Nippon Television (NTV) in Tokyo, which is owned by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings. NNN provides national news and current affairs programming to its regional affiliates, while NNS feeds entertainment and other non-news programmes. NNN and NNS are made up of 30 affiliates, including three stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks.

NNN was founded on April 1, 1966,[1] while NNS was founded on June 14, 1972.[2]

Stations are listed mostly in Japanese order of prefectures which is mirrored in ISO 3166-2:JP, with exceptions for the Kantō region, Aichi-Gifu-Mie, Kansai region (except Mie), Tottori-Shimane and Okayama-Kagawa, which form single wide broadcasting markets respectively.

  1. ^ NNN二十五年の步み [Twenty-Five Years of Nippon News Network] (in Japanese). Nippon News Network (Nippon TV). 1991. pp. 21–22. OCLC 675825797.
  2. ^ 大衆とともに25年 [25 Years with the Public] (in Japanese). Nippon Television. 1978. OCLC 12164852.