Nippon News Network

Nippon News Network
TypeBroadcast television network
Country
FoundedApril 1, 1966[1]
by Matsutaro Shoriki
OwnerYomiuri Group
through Nippon Television Holdings
Official website
NNN group networks
Nippon TV NEWS 24

Nippon News Network (NNN) is a Japanese commercial television network owned by Nippon Television (NTV), which itself is controlled by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange between the stations.

NNN also operates NTV News24, a 24-hour news channel available on subscription television platforms and also aired on select NNN affiliates during overnights.

Distribution of non-news television programmes is handled by Nippon Television Network System (NNS), another network set up by NTV.

  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.