JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a

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headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi,

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, Japan,

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by the subsidiary of

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certified broadcasting holding company itself a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc., serving as the flagship station of the

TX Network TX Network (TXN) is a commercial television network in Japan owned by Nikkei, Inc. The "TX" is taken from the callsign of its flagship station, TV Tokyo. It is also known as TV Tokyo Network. History Tokyo Channel 12 almost went into bankr ...

.." TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is one of the major Tokyo

s, particularly specialising in anime.

History

TV Tokyo was established by the Japan Science Foundation in 1951 and started broadcasting, as on April 12, 1964. It took its name from its VHF frequency channel 12. It almost went bankrupt in 1968; on 1 July that year, a

limited liability company A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of ...

, Tokyo Channel 12 Production was established with the help of the '' Nikkei'' and Mainichi Broadcasting System. In 1969 the ''Nikkei'' and MBS signed a memorandum of understanding which stipulates that Tokyo Channel 12 should share programs with Nihon Educational Television (NET, now

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Comp ...

). This forms a de facto alliance which lasts until 1975. Tokyo Channel 12 logo

In October 1977 Tokyo Channel 12 Production was renamed ; and shortened the channel's name to , dropping "Science TV" from its name. At the same time, the station moved to

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. A month later, it became a general purpose TV station along with NET. On April 1, 1978, Tokyo launched a new production company, Softx. TV Tokyo logo (1981-1985)

In 1981, it was again renamed, this time to Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd.

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TV Tokyo; the current Japanese name of the company was also assumed in the same year. In 1983, TV Tokyo formed the Mega TON Network (now

) with

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, and

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. The company shifted its head offices from

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in December 1985. On October 4, 1999, Tokyo's production company Softx was renamed to TV Tokyo MediaNet. In 2004, TV Tokyo MediaNet was shortened to MediaNet. On June 25, 2004, the company assumed its current English name of TV Tokyo Corporation. After the digital transition, the channel began broadcasting on digital channel 7. On November 7, 2016, TV Tokyo moved its headquarters to new building at Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower from its old studios in Toranomon. For its broadcast of animated programs, the network originally used a

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-style logo. The station mascot is a cartoon banana with eyes, a nose and a mouth which is bent into a 7, named Nanana (). The network is part of the Japan Consortium, which covers the

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and the

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Broadcasting

Digital

*Call sign: JOTX-DTV *Remote controller ID 7 *

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: Channel 12

Programming

Related companies

* TV Tokyo Holdings () * BS TV Tokyo () * TV Tokyo Production () * TV Tokyo Music () * PROTX () * AT-X () * FM Inter-Wave Inc. () * IntaracTV () * Nikkei CNBC () * TV Tokyo America Inc. * MediaNet (formerly TV Tokyo MediaNet & Softx) *

Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions is a Japanese production company, a subsidiary of the Japanese publishing group Hitotsubashi Group. Prior to 2008, it was known as . Notable filmography * ''A Penguin's Troubles'' * '' Departures'' * ''Doraemon'' * '' Pokemon'' * '' Pokémo ...

Co., Ltd. (formerly Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.) TV Tokyo entrance

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- * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tv Tokyo Anime companies Mass media companies based in Tokyo Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Japanese-language television stations Television networks in Japan Nikkei Inc. Mass media companies established in 1951 Television channels and stations established in 1964 Television in Tokyo Television stations in Japan TX Network 1951 establishments in Japan 1964 establishments in Japan Roppongi