![TV Tokyo Tennozu Studio 2009-06](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/TV_Tokyo_Tennozu_Studio_2009-06.jpg)
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a
television station
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headquartered in the
Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in
Roppongi
is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area and popular night club scene. A few foreign embassies are located near Roppongi, and the night life is popular with locals and foreigners alike. It is ...
,
Minato, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English.
It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibits th ...
,
Japan
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,
owned and operated
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by the
subsidiary
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of
listed
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certified broadcasting holding company itself a subsidiary of
Nikkei, Inc., serving as the
flagship
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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
television station
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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
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, Tokyo Channel 12 Production was established with the help of the ''
Nikkei'' and
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 ...
.
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
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). This forms a de facto alliance which lasts until 1975.
![Tokyo Channel 12 logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Tokyo_Channel_12_logo.png)
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
Shiba Park
is a public park in Minato, Tokyo, Japan built around the temple of Zōjō-ji.
The park is located between the Minato municipal offices and Tokyo Tower. Many of the footpaths in the park offer excellent views of Tokyo Tower, so the park is a popu ...
. 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)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/TV_Tokyo_logo_%281981-1985%29.png)
In 1981, it was again renamed, this time to Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd.
d/b/a
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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
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 ...
) with
TV Osaka
is a television station affiliated with the TX Network in Osaka, Japan. The mascot character is "Takoru-kun" (たこるくん).
History
Television Osaka, Inc. was founded in 1981 as part of the reorganization of Tokyo Channel 12 Ltd (now TV T ...
, and
Aichi Television Broadcasting
JOCI-DTV, branded as , is a television station in Nagoya, Japan operated by the Aichi Television Broadcasting Company, Ltd. (TVA; ja, テレビ愛知株式会社, Terebi Aichi kabushiki gaisha) and is an affiliate of the TX Network.
Broadcast ...
. The company shifted its head offices from
Shiba Park
is a public park in Minato, Tokyo, Japan built around the temple of Zōjō-ji.
The park is located between the Minato municipal offices and Tokyo Tower. Many of the footpaths in the park offer excellent views of Tokyo Tower, so the park is a popu ...
to
Toranomon
is a business district of Minato, Tokyo.
History
Literally meaning "Tiger's Gate," Toranomon was the name of the southernmost gate of Edo Castle. The gate existed until the 1870s when it was demolished to make way for modern developments. ...
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
Circle 7
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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
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, which covers the
Olympic Games
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and the
FIFA World Cup
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.
Broadcasting
Digital
*Call sign: JOTX-DTV
*Remote controller ID 7
*
Tokyo Skytree
is a broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010[Tokyo Tower
is a communications and observation tower in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, built in 1958. At , it is the second- tallest structure in Japan. The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that is painted white and i ...](_blank)
: 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.)
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 ...
*
AT-X
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