Hiroshima Telecasting Co., Ltd. (HTV, 広島テレビ放送株式会社, callsign: JONX-TV) is a

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 ...

in Hiroshima. It is affiliated with

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 ...

and

Nippon Television Network System Nippon Television Network System (; NNS) is a Japanese television network A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides prog ...

. It is broadcast in Hiroshima Prefecture.

History

HTV began broadcasting on September 1, 1962 as a primary affiliate of both NNN and FNN and a secondary affiliate of Nihon Educational Television. It remained affiliated with NET until 1970, when

Hiroshima Home Television , a.k.a. is a television station in Hiroshima. It is a network station of ANN. It is broadcast in Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 ...

signed on and took over the NET (later

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) affiliation. On October 1, 1975,

TV Shinhiroshima TSS-TV Co., Ltd. (株式会社テレビ新広島, Television Shin-Hiroshima System), named Shinhiroshima Telecasting Co., Ltd. until 2008, is a TV station serving in Hiroshima Prefecture and eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, affiliated with of Fuji ...

began operations as an FNN affiliate, leaving HTV as an affiliate of NNN. The station began broadcasting in digital in November 2005, and would cease operations on its analog signal on July 24, 2011.

External links

Official website of Hiroshima TV
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