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 eart ...
in
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...
. It is affiliated with
Nippon News Network and
Nippon Television Network System. 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 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the ...
.
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 signed on and took over the NET (later
ANN
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) affiliation. On October 1, 1975,
TV Shinhiroshima 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
1962 establishments in Japan
Mass media in Hiroshima
Companies based in Hiroshima Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Nippon News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1962
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