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 Headquarters inShiodome,Minato, Tokyo | |
Native name | 日本テレビホールディングス株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Nihon Terebi Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly | Nippon Television Network Corporation (1952-2012) |
| Company type | PublicKK |
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| ISIN | JP3732200005 |
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| Founded | October 28, 1952; 72 years ago (1952-10-28) |
| Founder | Matsutaro Shoriki |
| Headquarters | 6-1, Higashi-Shimbashi Itchome,, Japan |
Area served | Japan, Asia, United States, Western Europe |
Key people | Yoshikuni Sugiyama [jp] (Chairman andCEO)[1] Hiroyuki Fukuda [jp] (President andCOO)[2] |
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Number of employees | 3,259(as of March 31, 2013, consolidated) |
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| Website | ntvhd.co.jp |
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| City | Tokyo |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Nippon TV NTV |
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| Affiliations | Nippon News Network (news) Nippon Television Network System (non-news) |
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| Owner | Nippon Television Network Corporation |
| BS Nittele BS Nittele 4K Nittele Plus Nittele News 24 Nittele G+ | |
| History | |
First air date | August 28, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-08-28) |
Former call signs | JOAX-TV (1953–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (VHF; 1953–2011) |
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Licensing authority | MIC |
| ERP | 10 kW (68 kWERP) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°39′31″N139°44′44″E / 35.65861°N 139.74556°E /35.65861; 139.74556 |
| Translator(s) | Mito, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 42 Digital: Channel 14 Hitachi, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 54 Utsunomiya, Tochigi Analog: Channel 53 Digital: Channel 34 Nikkō, Tochigi Analog: Channel 54 Maebashi, Gunma Analog: Channel 54 Digital: Channel 33 Kiryū, Gunma Analog: Channel 53 Numata, Gunma Analog: Channel 53 Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 35 Digital: Channel 25 |
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| Website | ntv |
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Native name | 日本テレビ放送網株式会社 |
Romanized name | Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Company type | SubsidiaryKK |
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| Founded | April 26, 2012 (2012-4-26) (as Nippon Television Network Prepatory Corporation) |
| Headquarters | 6-1, Higashi-Shimbashi Itchome, Minato, Tokyo ,Japan |
Area served | Japan, United States, Western Europe, East Asia |
Key people | Yoshikuni Sugiyama (president and COO) Hiroyuki Fukuda (chairman and CEO) |
Number of employees | 1,193(as of April 1, 2013) |
| Parent | Nippon Television Holdings, Inc. |
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| Website | www |
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded asNippon Television[a] (NTV) orNippon TV is a Japanesetelevision station serving theKantō region as theflagship station of theNippon News Network and theNippon Television Network System. It is owned-and-operated by theNippon Television Network Corporation[b], a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding companyNippon Television Holdings, Inc.[c]
Nippon Television's studios are located in theShiodome area ofMinato, Tokyo,Japan and its transmitters are located in theTokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan. It is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for news programs) and NNS (for non-news programs). Except for Okinawa Prefecture,[d] these two networks cover the whole of Japan. Nippon Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo'' and is the firstcommercial broadcaster in Asia.
Nippon Television Holdings is partially owned by theYomiuri Shimbun Holdings (which owns 14.45% of the company's shares), Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest behindSony.[e] It forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongsideKansai region flagshipYomiuri Telecasting Corporation, which owns a 6.57% share in the company.[f] It is also the owner ofHulu Japan, formerly part of the US-basedHulu streaming service and the company has shares in animation studiosMadhouse,Tatsunoko Production andStudio Ghibli as well as a share in the film studioNikkatsu.
The history of Nippon Television began in 1951 with the announcement byUS SenatorKarl Mundt (best known as the key proponent ofVoice of America) that commercial television would be set up in Japan (then underUnited States-ledAlliedOccupation of Japan). According to Japanese-Canadian writer Benjamin Fulford, Mundt recommendedMatsutarō Shōriki to theCIA (which later hired Shōriki as a CIA agent under the codenames "podam" and "pojackpot-1"); with executives ofThe Asahi Shimbun andMainichi Shimbun, Shōriki then persuaded then-Prime MinisterShigeru Yoshida to form a commercial television network in Japan.[3]
On July 31, 1952, Nippon Television was granted the first TV broadcasting license for a commercial broadcaster in Japan.[4]: 14–15 The Nippon Television Network Corporation was established in October of the same year.[5] After obtaining the broadcasting license, Nippon Television purchased the land for the construction of the headquarters building in Nibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (currently the Nippon Television Kojimachi branch office), and began preparations for the broadcast of TV programs.[4]: 26–27 However, due to delays in delivering equipment used for broadcasting, test trials were significantly delayed from their initial scheduled date, resulting in NHK being the first to start broadcasting TV programs.[4]: 30–31 On August 24, 1953, Nippon Television started broadcast trials[4]: 35 and four days later, Nippon TV officially began to broadcast TV programs as Asia's first commercial broadcaster, withan animated dove spreading its wings in the logo on its first sign-on.[4]: 35 [5] The first TV commercial (forSeikosha clocks) was also aired at the same time (reports say that the commercial aired upside-down by mistake).[6]
Due to high prices, television sets were not widely available at the launch of NTV and NHK. As a result, NTV installed 55 street TVs in theKanto area in an effort to broaden the advertisement impact.[4]: 36 This program was a huge success, attracting 8,000 to 10,000 people to watch sports broadcasts such as professional baseball and sumo wrestling.[4]: 43
Plans for the expansion of Nippon Television to the whole of Japan weren't continued due to its given license being restricted to the Kanto area only.[7]: 88 As a result, theYomiuri Shimbun Group filed for a separate TV license in Osaka under the nameYomiuri TV.[4]: 52 In 1955, Matsutaro Shoriki stepped down as the president of Nippon TV after being elected to theJapan's House Of Representatives.[4]: 59–61 Said election was the first electoral coverage carried out by commercial TV in Japan.[8]
With the issuance of a large number of new TV licenses by theMinistry of Posts in the late 1950s, Yomiuri Shimbun and Nippon Television began to establish TV stations outside the Kanto area.[4]: 97 On August 28, 1958, Yomiuri TV started broadcasting, marking the start of Nippon TV's expansion into theKansai area.[4]: 99 However, due to the close partnership between Nippon TV and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the network's expansion was opposed by local newspapers, and the network's expansion was slower than that of theJNN affiliates, which are less newspaper-oriented.[7]: 89 Before 1958, NTV's programming was seen on CBC and OTV, whose television broadcasts started on December 1, 1956. The four commercial television stations that existed at the time broadcast a special program calledThe Coming Year (which ran until the end of the Showa era). Until the last edition, production rotated between the main Kanto stations.
On the fifth anniversary of NTV's launch, Yomiuri TV andTelevision Nishinippon started broadcasting, andNishinippon Broadcasting, which started earlier, created the backbones of a precursor of NNN. In December, whenTokai Television started broadcasting in the Tokai area, NTV programs moved to the new station.
Following TBS' establishment of JNN in 1959,[9]: 15 Nippon Television founded the second Japanese television network, NNN, on April 1, 1966, with a total of 19 affiliated stations as founding members.[g][9]: 21–22 Nippon Television founded the NNS (Nippon Television Network System) in 1972 to improve collaboration among network stations in the field of non-news programming.[4]: 213 On September 15, 1959, Nippon Television's stock was listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange, becoming the first media company in Japan to list its stock.[4]: 123
Nippon Television applied to the MPT in April 1957 for a color television broadcast license, which it received in December of that year.[4]: 105–108 Matsutaro Shoriki returned to Nippon TV as the president of the broadcaster after resigning as the Minister of State in 1958.[4]: 114 After taking office as the president, he increased his investment in color television. In December 1958, NTV introducedvideotape recording in a one-off drama series using American RCA 2-inch quad tape.
The first live coverage broadcast from Japan on color TV was the wedding of the Crown Prince (currentlyEmperor Emeritus Akihito) on April 10, 1959, alongside the first TV program with commercials broadcast in color.[7]: 14–17 [4]: 127 In December of the same year, NTV aired Japan's first color VTR broadcastPerry Como's Kraft Music Hall fromNBC (United States). NTV later obtained a broadcasting license for broadcasting programs in color on September 10, 1960.[10] After a year, NTV aired a total of 938 hours of programs broadcast in color.[4]: 129 As a result, programs produced in black and white steadily decreased.
In October 1963, Nippon Television has successfully trialed overnight broadcasts.[4]: 159 On November 22, 1963, using a communication satellite relay, NTV conducted the first black-and-white TV transmission experiment between Japan and the United States during coverage of theAssassination of John F. Kennedy.[10] On July 1, 1966,The Beatles' concert at theNippon Budokan, part of their Japanese tour, was shown in color on NTV (prerecorded on tape), with the viewing rate reaching 56 percent.[10]
After the death of Matsutaro Shoriki on October 9, 1969, Nippon TV and NHK agreed to integrate signal transmission facilities in theTokyo Tower.[4]: 194
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When Kobayashi Shoriki (son-in-law of Shoriki) took over Nippon TV in 1969, he continued the progress of TV broadcasting in color.[4]: 202 In April 1970, Nippon TV's color programs accounted for 76.4% of total broadcast time, ahead of NHK which was second with 73%.[4]: 211 In October 1971, Nippon TV achieved broadcasting all of its programs in color.[4]: 211
However, during this period, due to the economic depression in Japan and the discovery of falsification of financial reports by the Ministry of Finance, Nippon TV was in a state of recession.[7]: 58 Ratings of other Japanese commercial TV stations also declined during that period, from competing with Fuji TV for second place in the core bureau for most of the 1960s to competing withFuji Television and NET TV (currentlyTV Asahi), and then being pulled away from TBS.[4]: 318–319 This led Kobayashi Shoriki to launch business reforms to promote the outsourcing of program productions[7]: 63–64 and decided to build a new headquarters which enabled them to turn losses into profits in 1972.[4]: 207–208
The non-news counterpart of Nippon News Network,Nippon Television Network System, was formed on June 14, 1972.[4]: 213 NTV had also been successful in exporting its programs around the world, with programs such asThe Water Margin andMonkey being aired on theBBC in the UK.[7]: 42 On January 14, 1973, NTV airs the live satellite relay in Japan forElvis Presley's concert in Hawaii, U.S.A. On October 8 & 15, 1975, the classic filmGone with the Wind makes its world television premiere on NTV (Part I on the 8th, Part II on the 15th), about 13 months before NBC airs the film in North America.
Nippon TV also started diversifying its operations, opening subsidiaries such as Nippon TV Music, Union Movies, and Nippon Television Services in the early 70s.[4]: 221–224 In the following years, Nippon TV also participated in cultural events such as the restoration of theSistine Chapel ceiling in 1984[7]: 70–71, 90–91 which took 13 years to restore and costing to ¥2.4 billion[7]: 12–13 and also held two special exhibitions at theVatican Museums.[7]: 70–71 On March 9, 1984,Dan Goodwin, aka Spider Dan, Skyscraperman, in a paid publicity event, used suction cups to climb the 10 floor Nippon Television Kojimachi Annex in Chiyoda.[11]
On the 25th anniversary of Nippon Television's first broadcast in 1978, the broadcaster launched24-Hour TV: Love Saves the Earth, the only telethon in Japanese TV, which achieved high ratings and continued to be aired until the present day.[7]: 78–79 But in the 1980s, ratings continued to decline after Fuji TV and TBS promoted much of their primetime programming.[7]: 82–83 This prompted to increase airtime of its news programs and baseball events.[7]: 14–15 Multichannel television sound broadcasting (using theEIAJ MTS standard) began in December 1982. NTV also launchedNTV Cable News (now known as Nippon TV NEWS 24) in 1987, being the first news channel in Japan.[7]: 84, 92
Hayao Miyazaki ofStudio Ghibli, Inc. designed Nippon Television's mascot characterNandarō (なんだろう, lit.What Is It?) to commemorate the channel's 40th anniversary in 1993.[12]
After entering the 90s, although ratings of its Nippon TV affiliates increased, advertising revenue decreased in 1992 due to the collapse ofJapan's bubble economy.[7]: 98 The number of Nippon TV affiliates increased to 30 afterKagoshima Yomiuri Television started broadcasting in 1994.[7]: 82–83 In 1992, after Seiichiro Ujiie (former journalist at theYomiuri Shimbun) became president of Nippon TV, the broadcaster carried out major changes in its programming,[7]: 101–102 such as adjusting its late night news programs to air earlier than its rivals,[7]: 104–105 and ending certain primetime variety shows to boost ratings.[7]: 104–105, 106, 108–109 These major changes helped become number 1 in ratings from 1993 to 1994 overtaking Fuji TV.[7]: 2–5, 13 Earlier, it had attempted to replace its afternoon wide show with a comedy programs to compete with its rival networks.[13]
As part of its major renovations in the broadcasting industry, Nippon TV launched its first cable-exclusive channel, CS Nippon TV, in 1996.[7]: 133
At the start of the new century, Nippon TV and its 29 affiliates won the triple crown ratings.[14][h] In December 2000, Nippon TV launched its satellite-exclusiveBS Nippon TV.[7]: 133 On April 30, 2003, Nippon TV held a completion ceremony at its headquarters in Shiodome, Tokyo, which it took 7 years to build as part of its 50th anniversary from its opening.[7] However, in October of the same year, employees of the network bribed the surveyed households to increase their ratings. This impacted the ratings of Nippon TV most especially on baseball games.[15] Fuji TV took advantage of the incident when it became number 1 in ratings.[15] Nippon TV started digital broadcasting on December 1, 2003.[10] Nippon TV moved to Shiodome on February of the following year, and high-definition production also started. With the rising trend for Internet services, Nippon TV launched Dai2 Nippon TV, the first video-on-demand service from a commercial broadcaster in Japan.[16]
Analog broadcasting ended on July 24, 2011, fully entering digital TV era.[10] Also in 2011, Nippon TV regained the Triple Crown Ratings after 8 years due to high ratings of the dramaI am Mita, Your Housekeeper.[17][18] Although in 2012 and 2013, this was later taken by TV Asahi on ratings of its primetime programming.[19] Nippon TV later regained the Triple Crown Rating in 2014.[20] On April 26, 2012, Nippon Television Network Preparatory Corporation is founded as part of the network's major reorganization.[21] On October 1, 2012, Nippon Television Network Corporation (first) transitions to a certified broadcasting holding company, Nippon Television Holdings, Inc., and Nippon Television Network Preparatory Corporation is renamed Nippon Television Network Corporation (second).
On February 1–2, 2013, Nippon TV collaborated with NHK to air a special program related to the first TV broadcasts 60 years ago. On February 27, 2014, Nippon TV acquired the Japanese division ofHulu,Hulu Japan.[22][23][24] They started airing more programs exclusively to Hulu following its acquisition, which was later criticized from viewers.[25]
In 2015, Nippon TV (alongside the other 4 commercial broadcasters in Japan) launchedTVer, its free on-demand service.[26] On the Q4 of 2020, they started trials on live online streaming of its channel on TVer.[27][28] In September 2020, Nippon TV, alongsidePricewaterhouseCoopers, collaborated to create a system that uses artificial intelligence to predict audience ratings,[29] which was first trialed on its movie block, Friday Roadshow.[30] From Q4 of 2021, the broadcaster officially started its live online streaming of its channel, albeit with the exception of its late-night news program, news zero, and its succeeding program, despite being included in the trial the year before.[31] In 2022, Nippon TV currently holds the Triple Crown Rating for 12 years.[32] On October 6, 2023, Nippon Television purchased a majority stake inStudio Ghibli, and began to handle management of the studio while the company continues to focus on creative efforts.[33][34][35]
When Nippon Television started in 1953, its English acronym "NTV" was used as its first corporate logo, with a colored version later used in 1972 after the launch of color TV broadcasting. The logo was designed by Shōjirō Takada, an assistant professor atTokyo University of the Arts.[7]: 54 In 2003, Nippon TV launched a new corporate logo with the introduction ofNandarou, the broadcaster's mascot.[36] The orange dot in the 2003 logo represents the sun with the 日 in gold representing tradition. The logo was designed by Junichi Fumura, an employee of the broadcaster.[7]: 54 On January 1, 2013, Nippon TV changed its logo as part of its 60th anniversary, with the "日" kanji changed to number 0 with a diagonal line inside, to denote starting from zero and starting anew.[37] The change was inspired by the on-screen clock, usually located in the upper left corner of the screen.[38]
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In 1978, as part of its 25th anniversary, Nippon Television introduced a monsho in addition to the corporate trademark.[7]: 54 The logo was designed with the NTV's "sun" and the earth represented by theMercator projection, symbolizing NTV's leading position in the television industry.[7]: 54 The logo is colored blue, representing clear skies.[7]: 90 The monsho was designed by Masahiro Touzawa, an employee of the broadcaster.[7]: 54
On August 28, 1992, as part of its 40th anniversary, Nippon Television invitedHayao Miyazaki to design its first mascot.[39] The mascot was shaped like a mouse with the tail of a pig, symbolizing creativity, curiosity, and hard work.[7]: 54 The mascot's name was collected from an audience nomination campaign and voted on from 51,026 names. The winning name of the mascot was "Nandarou", literally translating to "What is it?"[7]: 113–114 The mascot was supposed to be used for one year only, but it was used until 2013 after audience popularity. It was replaced by DA BEAR, introduced in 2009.[7]: 54
| Channel | LCN (digital only) | Notes | ||
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| Station | Analog | Digital | ||
| Tokyo Skytree | (none) | 25 | 4 | Main station (JOAX-DTV) |
| Tokyo Tower | 4 | (none) | Main station (JOAX-TV); analog ended on July 24, 2011 | |
| Mito | 42 | 14 | 4 | Relay stations; analog ended on July 24, 2011 |
| Utsunomiya | 53 | 34 | ||
| Maebashi | 54 | 33 | ||
| Hiratsuka | 35 | 25 | ||
| Hitachi | 54 | (none) | Relay stations; ended on July 24, 2011 | |
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| Kiryu | 53 | |||
| Numata | ||||
For details, see日本の放送局所の呼出符号#JO＊X_2 (in Japanese)
In addition to terrestrial broadcasting in the Kanto area, NTV broadcasts and supplies the following pay television channels:
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After the launch ofJapan News Network in April 1960,[9]: 15 a new group of networks was supposed to be formed betweenSendai Television,Nagoya TV, Nippon TV, andHiroshima Telecasting in 1962.[9]: 19 But in 1963,Nishinippon Shimbun, which is a key shareholder ofTelevision Nishinippon, disagreed toYomiuri Shimbun's plans to expand in Fukuoka Prefecture.[9]: 19–20 This resulted in Television Nisihinippon withdrawing from being part of Nippon TV and losing Nippon TV's local news base in Kyushu.[9]: 20 On April 1, 1966, Nippon News Network was formally launched with 19 founding members.[i][9]: 21
The non-news counterpart of Nippon News Network,Nippon Television Network System, was formed on June 14, 1972.[4]: 213
The company has intimate connections withStudio Ghibli, led byHayao Miyazaki. Nippon TV has funded all of the company's productions sinceKiki's Delivery Service (excludingEarwig and the Witch, which was fully funded by rivalNHK) and holds the exclusive Japanese rights to broadcast their motion pictures. It has also produced and broadcast popularanime series likeMy Hero Academia,Claymore,Death Note,Hajime no Ippo, Magical Emi The Magic Star, Orange Road, as well asDetective Conan andInuyasha (which are produced through itsOsaka affiliate,Yomiuri TV). NTV produced the first, unsuccessfulDoraemon anime in 1973; when the second, more successfulDoraemon series premiered in 1979, it was onTV Asahi, which remains the franchise's broadcaster to this day. As of now, NTV is currently producing a second anime adaptation ofHunter × Hunter. NTV has also been broadcasting the yearlyLupin III TV specials since 1989, which they co-produce withTMS Entertainment. Nippon Television announced on February 8, 2011, that it would make the anime studioMadhouse its subsidiary after becoming the primary stockholder at about 85%, via a third-party allocation of shares for about 1 billion yen (about US$12 million).[45][46]
On January 29, 2014, Nippon Television announced that it will purchase a 54.3% stake inTatsunoko Production and adopt the studio as a subsidiary.[47][48]
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The following is a list of the most-watched films of all time on NTV, as of June 2007[update].[50]
| Rank | Film | Rating | Airing date |
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| 1 | Spirited Away | 46.9% | 2003-01-24 |
| 2 | Princess Mononoke | 35.1% | 1999-01-22 |
| 3 | Howl's Moving Castle | 32.9% | 2006-07-21 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 30.8% | 2004-06-25 |
| 5 | Tsuribaka Nisshi 4 | 28.4% | 1994-02-04 |
| 6 | Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 | 28.3% | 1994-12-23 |
| 7 | Tsuribaka Nisshi 2 | 27.7% | 1995-01-13 |
| 8 | Tora-san's Forbidden Love | 27.6% | 1996-08-09 |
| 9 | Shall We Dance? | 27.4% | 1997-03-28 |
| 10 | Tsuribaka Nisshi 5 | 27.1% | 1994-09-16 |
| 11 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 26.9% | 1987-10-16 |
| 12 | Menkyo ga Nai! [ja] | 26.9% | 1995-03-03 |
| 13 | Tsuribaka Nisshi 8 | 26.1% | 1997-10-24 |
| 14 | Titanic | 26.1% | 2003-06-28 |
| 15 | Abunai Deka Forever | 25.7% | 1998-08-28 |
| 16 | First Blood | 25.3% | 1985-10-25 |
| 17 | The Matrix | 25.1% | 2003-06-06 |
| 18 | Lupin III: Moeyo Zantetsuken! | 24.9% | 1994-07-29 |
| 19 | Death Note | 24.5% | 2006-10-27 |
| 20 | Kiki's Delivery Service | 24.4% | 1990-10-05 |
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