Television Nishinippon Corporation
Television Nishinippon Corporation (株式会社テレビ西日本, Kabushiki Gaisha Terebi Nishinippon, TNC) is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Fukuoka. This station serves Fukuoka Prefecture and also acts as the default FNN affiliate for western portions of Yamaguchi Prefecture including Yamaguchi City and Shimonoseki, as Yamaguchi Prefecture does not have an FNN affiliate of its own.
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan | |
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Channels | Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 8 |
Branding | Television Nishinippon |
Programming | |
Affiliations | FNN/FNS |
Ownership | |
Owner | Television Nishinippon Corporation |
History | |
Founded | 1 April 1958 |
First air date | 28 August 1958 |
Last air date | 24 July 2011 (JOHX-TV) |
Former channel number(s) | 9 (analog VHF, 1962–2011) JOHX-TV: 10 (analog VHF, 1958–2011) |
NNN/NNS (1958–1964) | |
Links | |
Website | www.tnc.co.jp/ |
History
JOHX-TV was originally established as an affiliate of Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Yahata (Yahata Higashi-ku, Kitakyūshū) in August 1958, airing on VHF channel 9; a station in Fukuoka was established in February 1962 as JOJY-TV. They changed affiliation from NNN and NNS to FNN and FNS in October 1964. The head office was moved to Fukuoka, and the call sign changed from "JOHX-TV" (still the call sign of Kitakyūshū satellite station (airing on VHF channel 10)) to "JOJY-TV" in December 1974. They relocated their office to its current location near Fukuoka Tower in August 1996. During the station's first 53 years of broadcasting, JOHX-TV's analog signal was receivable over-the-air in most of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Digital broadcasts on JOJY-TV began on 1 July 2006, and the analog signal continued to broadcast until 24 July 2011, when JOHX-TV (which served northern portions of Fukuoka Prefecture and western portions of Yamaguchi Prefecture) ceased operations.
TV channel
Main station
- Fukuoka 34ch(Digital) 9ch(Analog)
Programs
- Momochihama Store (ももち浜ストア)
- Hachinabi Plus Super News (ハチナビプラス スーパーニュース)
- Tobe Tobe Hawks (とべとべホークス, Tobe tobe Hōkusu)
- Saturday News File CUBE (土曜ニュースファイルCUBE, Doyō nyūsufairu kyūbu)
- Hanamaru Daikichi no "Nan shiyōto?" (華丸・大吉のなんしようと?, lit; Hanamaru-Daikichi's "What're you doing?")
- BASEBALL SPECIAL Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Live
- Cow Television
- Riding Uphill ガチ★星
Other TV stations in Fukuoka
- NHK Fukuoka and Kitakyushu
- Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting (KBC, 九州朝日放送, affiliated with TV Asahi and ANN) - 1
- RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (RKB, RKB毎日放送, affiliated with TBS TV, Inc. and JNN) - 4
- Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation (FBS, 福岡放送, affiliated with NTV and NNN / NNS) - 5
- TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting (TVQ, TVQ九州放送, affiliated with TV Tokyo and TX Network) - 7