Nippon Television

Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.
Native name
日本テレビホールディングス株式会社
Nihon Terebi Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha
FormerlyNippon Television Network Corporation (1952-2012)
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 9404
ISINJP3732200005
Industry
FoundedOctober 28, 1952; 72 years ago (1952-10-28)
FounderMatsutaro Shoriki
Headquarters
6-1, Higashi-Shimbashi Itchome, Minato, Tokyo
,
Japan
Area served
Japan, Asia, United States, Western Europe
Key people
Yoshikuni Sugiyama [jp]
(Chairman)
Akira Ishizawa [jp][1]
(President and CEO)
Services
Revenue
  • Increase¥326,423 million (FY2012)
  • ¥305,460 million (FY2011)
  • Increase¥35,429 million (FY2012)
  • ¥32,249 million (FY2011)
  • Increase¥25,284 million (FY2012)
  • ¥22,729 million (FY2011)
Total assets
  • Increase¥598,075 million (FY2012)
  • ¥543,228 million (FY2011)
Total equity
  • Increase¥488,120 million (FY2012)
  • ¥446,038 million (FY2011)
Owner
Number of employees
3,259 (as of March 31, 2013, consolidated)
Subsidiaries
  • Nippon Television Network Corporation
  • AX-ON Inc.
  • BS Nippon Corporation
  • CS Nippon Corporation
  • Nippon Television-News 24 Corporation
  • VAP
  • NTV Events
  • Nippon Television Music Corporation
  • Nippon Television Art
  • NTV Technical Resources
  • RF Radio Nippon Co. Ltd.
  • ClaN Entertainment
  • Tatsunoko Production (55.2%)
Websitentvhd.co.jp
JOAX-DTV
CityTokyo
Channels
BrandingNippon TV
NTV
Programming
AffiliationsNippon News Network (news)
Nippon Television Network System (non-news)
Ownership
OwnerNippon Television Network Corporation
BS Nittele
BS Nittele 4K
Nittele Plus
Nittele News 24
Nittele G+
History
First air date
August 28, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-08-28)
Former call signs
JOAX-TV (1953–2011)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 4 (VHF; 1953–2011)
Technical information
Licensing authority
MIC
ERP10 kW (68 kW ERP)
Transmitter coordinates35°39′31″N 139°44′44″E / 35.65861°N 139.74556°E / 35.65861; 139.74556
Translator(s)Mito, Ibaraki
Analog: Channel 42
Digital: Channel 14
Hitachi, Ibaraki
Analog: Channel 54
Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Analog: Channel 53
Digital: Channel 34
Nikkō, Tochigi
Analog: Channel 54
Maebashi, Gunma
Analog: Channel 54
Digital: Channel 33
Kiryū, Gunma
Analog: Channel 53
Numata, Gunma
Analog: Channel 53
Hiratsuka, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 35
Digital: Channel 25
Links
Websitentv.co.jp
Corporate information
Company
Native name
日本テレビ放送網株式会社
Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō Kabushiki-gaisha
Company typeSubsidiary KK
Industry
  • Media
FoundedApril 26, 2012 (2012-04-26)
(as Nippon Television Network Prepatory Corporation)
Headquarters
6-1, Higashi-Shimbashi Itchome, Minato, Tokyo
,
Japan
Area served
Japan, United States, Western Europe, East Asia
Number of employees
1,193 (as of April 1, 2013)
ParentNippon Television Holdings, Inc.
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.ntv.co.jp/english/

The Nippon Television Network Corporation[a], also known as Nippon Television[b] (NTV), with the call sign JOAX-DTV (channel 4), is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System. It is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.[c]

Nippon Television's studios are located in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and its transmitters are located in the Tokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan. It is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for news programs) and NNS (for non-news programs). Except for Okinawa Prefecture,[d] these two networks cover the whole of Japan. Nippon Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo'' and is the first commercial broadcaster in Asia.

Nippon Television Holdings is a listed subsidiary of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest behind Sony.[e] It forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongside Kansai region flagship Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, which owns a 6.57% share in the company.[f] It is also the owner of Hulu Japan, formerly part of the US-based Hulu streaming service and the company has shares in animation studios Madhouse, Tatsunoko Production and Studio Ghibli as well as a share in the film studio Nikkatsu.

  1. ^ "Top Message". Retrieved January 10, 2024.


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