is a Japanese

TV station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth ...

affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and

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(FNS) in

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. This station serves

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and also acts as the default FNN affiliate for western portions of

Yamaguchi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). Y ...

including Yamaguchi City and

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, as Yamaguchi Prefecture does not have an FNN affiliate of its own.

History

JOHX-TV was originally established as an affiliate of

Nippon News Network Nippon News Network (NNN) is a Japanese commercial television network owned by Nippon Television, which itself is controlled by the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' newspaper. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news ...

(NNN) and

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(NNS) in Yahata ( Yahata Higashi-ku, Kitakyūshū) in August 1958, airing on VHF channel 9; a station in

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

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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)

Tandem offices

Outside broadcasting car of TNC(Television Nishinippon Corporation)

* Kitakyūshū 29ch(D) 10ch(A:JOHX-TV) *

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29ch(D) 60ch(A) *Minami Ōmuta 29ch(D) 56ch(A) * Ōmuta 29ch(D) 55ch(A) * Yukuhashi 34ch(D) 54ch(A) * Itoshima 34ch(D) * Munakata 29ch(D)

Programs

* * * * * *BASEBALL SPECIAL

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Live *

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Riding Uphill ''Riding Uphill'' (Japanese title ''Gachi Boshi'' ガチ★星) is a 2018 "local drama" Japanese film created by Nishi-Nihon Television. Directed by Kan Eguchi and starring Kenichi Abe, it shows the life of a downtrodden man who turns to competi ...

ガチ★星

Other TV stations in Fukuoka

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Fukuoka and Kitakyushu *

Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with National Radio Network (NRN) on radio and All-Nippon News Network (ANN) on TV. With its relay transmitters in Saga, KBC functions as the default ANN affiliate for the ...

(KBC, , affiliated with

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and

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) - 1 *

RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (stylized as ''rkb'') is a broadcasting station in Fukuoka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), Japan News Network (JNN) and TBS Network. It is owned by Mainichi Broadcasting System, Mainichi Shimbun and the Aso Grou ...

(RKB, , affiliated with TBS TV, Inc. and JNN) - 4 *

Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. This station broadcasts programs throughout Fukuoka Prefecture as well as most of Saga ...

(FBS, , affiliated with

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and NNN /

NNS NNS can stand for: * New neoclassical synthesis (economics) * NASCAR Nationwide Series (previous name of the NASCAR Xfinity Series) * Nashville Number System (music) * National Numeracy Strategy (UK education) * Near Net Shape * Nearest neighbor se ...

) - 5 *

TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting is a television station affiliated with the TX Network, broadcasting in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. History During the time of its establishment, the company was named as "TXN Kyushu" because the name "TV Kyushu", which the owner intended to us ...

(TVQ, , affiliated with

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...

and

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 ban ...

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External links

Official website of TV Nishinippon
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