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is a certified broadcasting
holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own shares of other companies ...
headquartered in
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified
radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...
and
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
broadcaster serving in the Kansai region. On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions were spun off into two subsidiaries, with taking over the radio broadcasting business, and took over television broadcasting.


History

* March 15, 1951 - Asahi Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Nakanoshima, Kita-ku,
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
. ABC started AM radio broadcasting on November 11 (1010 kHz). * May 25, 1955 - ABC and New Japan Broadcasting Company (NJB, the predecessor of
Mainichi Broadcasting System , or MBS, is a radio and television broadcasting company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network, serving in the Kansai region. It i ...
, Inc.) founded in Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka. Currently, ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Osaka is located at the place the head office of OTV used to be. * December 1, 1956 - OTV started television broadcasting on channel 6, under the callsign JOBX-TV ''(not to be confused with
Oita Asahi Broadcasting , also known as OAB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Oita Prefecture. The Headquarters * 12 Shinkawa-nishi Oita-city, OITA 870-8524 JAPAN History *1993 October 1: It was set up as Oi ...
which currently uses the JOBX callsign)''. The station was a primary KRT (TBS) affiliate with a secondary NTV affiliation. * 1958 - NTV programming was dropped with the launch of Yomiuri Television. * March 1, 1959 - ABC acquired OTV and renamed the television station and its callsign of TV station was changed (JOBX-TV → JONR-TV). * June 1, 1959 - ABC merged with OTV, and has been broadcasting both television and radio since then. The head office of OTV was named "ABC Dojima Station" for the use of the TV station. * May 2, 1965 - ABC joined Japan Radio Network (JRN), and the next day it also joined another commercial radio network National Radio Network (NRN). * 1966 - Dispersed offices and studios were integrated into the headquarters building in Oyodo-minami, Oyodo-ku (present: Kita-ku), Osaka. * March 31, 1975 - ABC pulled out of JNN and joined All-Nippon News Network (ANN) on behalf of
Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...
, one of major shareholders of ABC. ABC was one of founders of Japan News Network (JNN), the first news network of commercial television stations in Japan. * November 23, 1978 - The frequency of ABC AM radio changed from 1010 kHz to 1008 kHz. * March 23, 2001 - ABC acquired ISO 14001 certification, the first broadcaster in Japan to do so. * January 1, 2008 - The ABC logo was redesigned, featuring the call letters ABC and the name "Asahi Broadcasting Corporation", "朝日放送", "Radio", or "TV" under the slope line from the letter "C". A simplified version (only three latters of "ABC") is used in program credits. The current advertising slogan of the station, Info Designing ABC, was also launched. * May 19, 2008 - ABC moved the headquarters from Oyodo-minami Nichome, Kita-ku to Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka. * June 23, 2008 - ABC started broadcasting from its present headquarters. * July 24, 2011 -
Analog television Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. In an analog television broadcast, the brightness, colors and sound are represented by amplitude, instantaneous phase and frequency, ...
operations ended on ABC at noon, in line with stations in most prefectures across Japan. The station now broadcasts in digital only. * April 1, 2018 - ABC became a certified broadcasting holding company and renamed Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation. Asahi Radio Broadcasting Corporation took over radio broadcasting business, and Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation took over TV broadcasting business, employees, and administrator for ABC website.


Network affiliations


Radio

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Japan Radio Network or JRN is a commercial radio network in Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, w ...
(JRN) * National Radio Network (NRN)


TV

* Japan News Network (JNN) (until March 30, 1975) * All-Nippon News Network (ANN) (March 31, 1975 – Present)


Broadcasting


Radio

JONR *Osaka::1008 kHz, 50 kW; 93.3 MHz FM *Kyoto:1008 kHz, 300 W *Total:50.3 kW *Time: from 4:30 a.m. on Monday until 2:30 a.m. on Monday (24-hour operation) *Time signal: 523.251 Hz ( C5)


TV (Analog)

;JONR-TV (former callsign: JOBX-TV) :*Channel 6


TV (Digital)

;JOAY-DTV (former callsign: JONR-DTV) :*Channel 15 (Remote controller button: 6)


Offices

*Headquarters: 1-30, Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan (
Hotarumachi is a mixed-use redevelopment project in Fukushima-ku ward of Osaka City, Japan, located on the former site of Osaka University Hospital. Facilities *Headquarters of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation *:ABC Hall *Dōjima River Forum (hall) * The ...
) *Tokyo Office: 10th floor of Nippon Life Hamamatsucho Crea Tower, 2–31, Hamamatsucho Nichome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan *Nagoya Office: 9th floor of Ricco Sakae, 14-7, Sakae Sanchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Japan *Kobe Office: Kobe Asahi Building, 60 Nakaniwamachi, Chuō-ku, Kobe-shi, Japan *Kyoto Office: Kyoto Asahi Building, 65 Yanagihachimanchō, Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto-shi, Japan


See also

*
Television in Japan Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic television. Television broadcasting was halted by World War II, after which regular television ...
* Osaka Tower


Notes


External links

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Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation website
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