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 Logo used since 1968.[a] | |
 Headquarters inHigashi-ku, Nagoya | |
| THK | |
Native name | 東海テレビ放送株式会社 |
Romanized name | Tōkaiterebihōsō kabushikigaisha |
| Company type | Kabushiki gaisha |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | February 1, 1958; 67 years ago (1958-02-01) |
| Headquarters | 1-14-27 Higashisakura,, Japan |
Key people | Hiroshi Kojima (president and CEO) |
| Services | Television broadcasting |
| Subsidiaries | Tokai TV Enterprise Tokai TV Production Unimall |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references Data from itscorporate profile | |
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| City | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Tokai Television |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Fuji News Network andFuji Network System |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Tokai Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. |
| History | |
First air date | December 25, 1958; 66 years ago (1958-12-25) |
Former call signs | JOFX-TV (1958–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | 1 (VHF analog, 1958–2011) |
Call sign meaning | FujiX (disambiguation of Tokyo and Osaka sister stations' callsigns) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | MIC |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°10′20.7″N136°54′30″E / 35.172417°N 136.90833°E /35.172417; 136.90833 |
JOFX-DTV (channel 1), branded asTokai Television,[b] is a Japanesetelevision station serving as an affiliate of theFuji News Network and theFuji Network System for theChūbu region. Owned and operated byTokai Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.,[c] its headquarters and studios are located at the Tokai Hoso Kaikan buildings in theHigashi-ku ward ofNagoya,Aichi Prefecture.
The Headquarters are located at 14-27, Higashi-Sakura Itchome,Naka-ku, Nagoya,Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Branch offices exist in Tokyo at Hibiya Chunichi Building, 1–4, Uchisaiwaicho Nichome,Chiyoda, Tokyo and Osaka at Breeze Tower, 4–9,Umeda Nichome,Kita-ku,Osaka,Osaka Prefecture.
In 1957, seven companies applying for the third television broadcasting license in theTokai region made a bid:Tokai Broadcasting, Tokai TV,Tokai Radio, Kinki Tokai Broadcasting, Nippon Color TV,Nagoya Broadcasting andNippon Television.[1]: 20 Tokai Broadcasting, Tokai TV, Tokai Radio, and Kinki Tokai Broadcasting merged to form New Tokai Television and obtained a broadcasting license on October 22, 1957.[1]: 20
It was anticipated that New Tokai TV would broadcast on channel 1 in theTokai region, although there were voices[who?] in the postal office who believed that channel 1 should be used byCBC, as it was historically the first station to broadcast. However, CBC was willing to continue to use channel 5, as itsfrequency was widely known, and the number was located in the center of the TV channel switching dial at that time. Therefore, Tokai TV used channel 1.[1]: 27
On December 1 of the same year, New Tokai TV set up an office in the New Nagoya Building, and began preparations for broadcasting.[1]: 20 On January 20, 1958, the headquarters were established in Higashishincho,Higashi-ku,Nagoya City, and on February 17 the name was changed to Tokai Television, referred to in short as THK.[1]: 20
On December 18, Tokai TV began airingtest signals, and began trial broadcasting on December 21.[1]: 24 At 11:15 on December 25, Tokai TV officially started broadcasting, becoming the 17th private TV station inJapan.[1]: 24 At the beginning of the broadcast, Tokai TV andKansai TV established a network relationship.[1]: 28 In 1959, with the launch ofFuji TV, Tokai TV joined the network with Fuji TV as theflagship station,[1]: 28 but also broadcast some programs from bothNippon TV and NET TV.[1]: 38 In 1961, THK abolished the off-air period in the afternoon and broadcast continuously from morning to evening.[1]: 37 With the launch of Nagoya TV in 1962, Tokai TV stopped broadcasting programs from Nippon TV and NET TV, and became a member of the Fuji TV network.[1]: 38 In 1964, Tokai TV broadcast a color program for the first time (the British seriesStingray), which was being networked by Fuji TV.[1]: 49 Four years later, self-produced programs were produced in color, the first beingKazuo Hasegawa's Masterpiece Series.[1]: 63
In 1965, Tokai TV adopted a new logo, designed to the concept of "gazing at the modern eye".[1]: 50 In 1968, in order to adapt to the arrival of thecolor TV era, THK changed the color of the central circular part of the logo from black to blue.[1]: 50 On May 18Masahiko Harada's match against Ed Geoffrey, broadcast by Tokai TV, set a record rating of 68%, making theboxing broadcast a signature program of the Fuji TV series.[1]: 51 In 1967, as part of the local business contribution, Tokai Television donated afountain to Nagoya City, which was set up in Sakae Park.[1]: 59 Tokai TV produced many commemorative programs on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, among which the TV seriesHida Koshito wasaffirmed[clarify] by the Meiji Centennial Art Festival.[1]: 68 This period was also the first peak in viewership for Tokai TV. In 1967 and 1968, Tokai TV won thetriple crown of ratings[clarify] for two consecutive years.[1]: 229 In 1970, Tokai TV became the first company in theJapanese TV industry to have a two-dayweekend.[1]: 75 In 1977, Tokai TV's pre-tax profit exceeded 10 billionyen.[1]: 93
In 1982, Tokai TV won the Triple Crown of ratings again for the first time in 14 years, due to the increase in the ratings of Fuji TV and an increase in theratings of the baseball broadcast of games played by theChunichi Dragons. Tokai TV's average ratings throughout the day reached 9.3%, 18.5% during prime time, and 17.7% during the evening.[1]: 108 From the third week of May 1984 to the fourth week of September 4, 1987, Tokai TV ranked first in the average ratings of the whole day for 176 consecutive weeks.[1]: 126 Tokai TV's ratings triple crown lasted for 16 years, from 1982 to 1997.[1]: 146 In 1987, Tokai TV'spre-tax profit exceeded 20 billion yen,[1]: 130 and they aired the 30th anniversary documentaryBig White Night Journey to theExtreme North of the Soviet Union, broadcast throughout Japan.[1]: 127 In April 1988, Tokai TV started 24-hour broadcasting at weekends.[1]: 131
On January 27, 1989, Tokai TV's 30th anniversary commemorative TV seriesNagoya Bride Story was serialized and broadcast until 1998.[1]: 160 Its thirdseason[clarify] in 1991 achieved an audience rating of 29.7% in Nagoya, and won the Excellent Award of the Democratic Federation of Freedom of the Year.[1]: 137 In 1991, Tokai TV producedhigh-definition TV programs for the first time.[1]: 142 In 1996, in order to publicize the program, Tokai TV purchased all the advertising space in some carriages ofNagoya Municipal Subway'sHigashiyama Line andMeijo Line, and named it "Tokai TV Station".[1]: 153 Since 1987, Tokai TV hosts Tokai TV Festival (东海テレビまつり) activities.[1]: 160 On the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast, the Tokai TV Festival was held for two days on November 21 and 22 1998, attracting more than 34,000 people.[1]: 160 Tokai TV also established the Tokyo Production Department in 1999 to strengthen its production capabilities in Tokyo.[1]: 164
With the appearance of well knownfigure skaters[who?] in Nagoya, Tokai TV has held many figure skating events since 2000, contributing to the popularization of figure skating in Japan.[1]: 189 On December 1, 2003, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of broadcasting and a move to new headquarters, Tokai TV began to broadcast digital TV.[1]: 176 On November 1, Tokai TV broadcast a 7-hour and 30-minute special program with the theme of "Challenge" to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the broadcast.[1]: 177 In 2004, Tokai TV once again won the triple crown in ratings after 7 years.[1]: 180 During the2005 Aichi World Expo, Tokai TV set up anexhibition hall (Yumemiruyama/梦みる山) withChunichi Shimbun, Central Nippon Broadcasting, and other companies to showcase the latestimaging[clarify] technology.[1]: 182–184 On the 50th anniversary of broadcasting in 2008, Tokai TV held the Tokai TV Thanksgiving Festival from November 1 to 3. TheNagoya TV Tower inHisaya Odori Park was used as the venue, attracting 370,000 people.[1]: 196
On July 24, 2011, Tokai TV ceasedanalog TV broadcasting.[1]: 176 However, the "Mr. Cesium" incident (see below) occurred the following month, which seriously damaged its credibility. At the same time, due to the sluggish ratings of Fuji TV, Tokai TV ratings also fell. In 2018, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its launch, Tokai TV produced a special programGoodbye, TV,[2] exposing the difficulties faced by its news department, which had repercussions[clarification needed] in the TV industry. Thisdocumentary was later adapted into a movie. In 2020, Tokai TV and three other private TV stations in Nagoya (CBC TV,Chukyo TV andTV Aichi) jointly created the on-demand video serviceLocipo.
Since 1997, the eve of the 40th anniversary of broadcasting, Tokai TV has launched a newmascot every 10 years. In 1997, the mascot "ヤッパくん" was analien who liked to watch their programs.[1]: 156 In 2008, Tokai TV launched a new mascot "わんだほ", whose appearance was based onclouds. The basic shape is the channel number "1" of Tokai TV Station, but can be deformed into other shapes.[1]: 156 In 2018, the mascot wasIcchy (イッチー), a littlefairy from the flower fields in Tokai, which looks like a yellow bear.[citation needed]
Analog TV was discontinued on July 24, 2011.
JOFX-TV
Digital TV began on December 1, 2003.
JOFX-DTV
Tokai TV's first news program hosted by a host wasNews Corner (ニュースコーナー) which started broadcasting in 1961.[1]: 36 In 1963, Tokai TV held the firstcourt[clarify]live broadcast in Japanese TV history.[1]: 44 In 1965, Tokai TV Station began to broadcast a 30-minute large-scalenews programChunichi TV News Sunday Evening Edition[1]: 51 on Sunday. In order to strengthen the news reporting system, the news departments of Tokai TV and Tokai Radio were integrated in 1967.[1]: 60–61 When the Hidagawa bus crashed in 1968, Tokai TV broadcast the accident report at 7:45 in the morning, and was commended by Fuji News Network.[1]: 62–63 In the early 1970s, Tokai TV produced a series of news special programs aboutYokkaichi asthma, which won theGalaxy Award and other awards.[1]: 79 During the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 124 in 1974, THK broadcast a special program that lasted more than seven hours, significantly longer than other private TV stations.[1]: 84 Beginning in 1978, Tokai TV broadcast a large-scale strip news programEvening News 630 from Monday to Friday evening, making the weekday news programs also large-scale.[1]: 95–96 In the following year a dedicated news studio was opened to strengthen the ability to produce news programs.[1]: 101 WhenEmperor Showa passed away in 1989, Tokai TV aired a special program that lasted 42 hours and 2 minutes.[1]: 134 WhenChina Airlines Flight 140 crashed in 1994, Tokai TV was able to report the news quickly because it had a live weather video camera at Nagoya Airport. It broadcast a flash report at 20:26, ahead of other stations, and started broadcasting at 20:39. The station produced a special program and devoted as many as 347 employees to report on the accident.[1]: 148–149
In 1991, Tokai TV opened its first overseas branch, the FNNVienna branch, broadcasting news from all overEurope centered onEastern Europe.[1]: 140 In 1997, the station closed the Vienna branch and opened the FNNJakarta branch to strengthen news reports inSoutheast Asia.[1]: 155 In 2003, Tokai TV opened the FNNBeijing branch.[1]: 179
The first TV series produced by Tokai TV was thesatirical comedyGanbare Your Excellency. In 1960, THK began to broadcast the theater ofFamous Water Yaozuo, and it was successfully sold toMainichi Broadcasting.[1]: 32 In May 1964, Tokai TV broadcast the first work of its most famous TV seriesNoon Series,Snow Burning, which increased the noon ratings.[1]: 48 The fifth episode of the noon seriesThe Worry of This World set a record with an average audience rating of 20% inNagoya area;[1]: 53 the average audience rating of the tenth episodeThe Sun of Love even exceeded 30%.[1]: 55 In order to facilitate the appearance ofheavyweight[clarify] actors, the series was re-produced in Tokyo in 1969.[1]: 70 Beginning in April 1976, the length of the midday series was extended from 15 to 30 minutes. Thenoon seriesNo Ambition, which began broadcasting in October the same year, had an average audience rating of 15.3% in Nagoya. Due to its wide acclaim, it was repeatedly extended, and finally aired as many as 210 episodes.[1]: 89 In 1986, the midday seriesThe Arashi of Love wasserialized due to its great success, and then the sister worksHana no Arashi andNatsu no Arashi were broadcast, and a remake was carried out in 2002.[1]: 125 Koharu in 1996 took place in ahot spring hotel inIshikawa Prefecture, and it was a popular series that produced as many as sixparts.[clarify][1]: 152 In 2002, Tokai TV adapted Kikuchi Kan's famousnovelMrs. Pearl into a midday series, which caused asocial phenomenon.[clarify] The term "Mrs. Pearl" was selected as the top 10 in theNew Words andBuzzwords Awards of the year.[1]: 173 Peony and Rose in 2004 is considered[by whom?] to be the pinnacle work of thelove-hate route of the noon series. From 2015 to 2016,Peony and Rose was remade as well. However, due to changes in the audience's living habits, Tokai TV's noon series aired the last workLam's Tears~We Have Tomorrow~ in March 2016. At the same time that the noon series ended, Tokai TV set up six new adult dramas on Saturday night, and continued to provide series for the Fuji TV network. Compared with the mid-day dramas that mainly focus on love-hate dramas, the six dramas of adults are late-night dramas, with more diverse themes.
Music Calendar (ミュージックカレンダー), which began broadcasting in 1967,is a long-lived program that has been broadcast for 10 years.[clarify] It has also been successfully broadcast on other members of the network such as Fuji TV.[1]: 59 This program was also Tokai TV's first self-made color program.[1]: 63 After the establishment of the Tokyo production department, the production capacity forvariety shows has been significantly improved. The production ofAge Difference Showdown! (年の差バトル! 言い分 vs Eぶん!!) has achieved more than 10% ratings.[1]: 164–165 Sun's House, which began broadcasting in 2003, is hosted byTomomitsu Yamaguchi. It is a long-lived program, having been broadcast for more than 17 years with at least 800 episodes.[needs update][1]: 178
In 1961, Tokai TV produced thehousewife's information programHello, Madam (Ou-様こんにちは) for the first time, broadcast from Monday to Friday.[1]: 35 The name of the programHousewife Information Your Two Points (奥様信息あなたの2时です), which began broadcasting in 1971, came from an audience poll. It gave various practical information for housewives and established the foundation of Tokai TV's local information programs.[1]: 76–77 Today Tokai, which began broadcasting in 1974, is a housewife-oriented program that incorporates news color, and it is broadcast every Monday to Friday evening.[1]: 85 In 1998, Tokai TV became the first private TV station to broadcast 6 editions a week of live strip local information program withP-can TV.[1]: 161 In 2006, Tokai TV began broadcasting the information programStyle Plus onSundays, making THK broadcast local information programs every day.[1]: 187 Now[when?] Tokai TV broadcasts the strip information programSwitch in the morning period fromMonday to Friday, andMr. Taichi!, hosted by Kokubun Taichi, at noon on Sunday.
Hometown Journey, which began broadcasting in 1963, visited the settings ofliterary works all over Japan. It has been broadcast for 44 years and has a total of 2,279 episodes.[1]: 43 The program was not only sold and broadcast overseas, but also obtained material from China in 1982.[1]: 43 In 1975, Tokai TV's documentaryShowa 49 Spring Osawa Village won the Art Festival Grand Prize, and was the first work of Tokai TV to do so.[1]: 86 In 1982, Tokai TV became the first western[dubious –discuss] TV station to be allowed to cover theBaikal-Amur railway.[1]: 111 The documentaryThe Disappearing Village (消える村), recording the changes in the lives of residents in the flooded area of Tokuyama Reservoir, was affirmed by the 25th Anniversary Special Award of the Galaxy Awards.[1]: 118 In 1990, the documentary film tracking a10,000-yen banknote (SY660000H) produced by Tokai TV won the Excellence Award in the TV Entertainment Department of the People's Liberation Association.[1]: 138 The 2003 documentaryPapa is Edison (とうちゃんはエジソン) about Kato Yuanzhong won the Galaxy Award and the FNS Documentary Award this year.[when?] It was the first time that Tokai TV won the Galaxy Award Grand Prize.[1]: 179
On August 4, 2011, during the "Happy Shopping" segment in Tokai TV's programBessatsu! P-Can TV (Bessatsu! ぴーかんテレビ), Inaniwa udon noodles fromAkita Prefecture were advertised. Suddenly, the announcement screen for the winner of theLove Rice at First Sight Produced in Iwate Prefecture appeared, having nothing to do with the contents of the show. The winners' names were written as "怪しいお米セシウムさん" (lit. "suspicious rice Mr.Cesium") and "汚染されたお米セシウムさん" (lit. "contaminated rice Mr. Cesium"). The screen was shown for 23 seconds.[3] After returning to the studio,the host of Bessatsu! P-Can TV and Tokai TV host Tomoyuki Fukushima[clarify] quickly apologized. Afterwards, according to an investigation by the channel, the cause of the incident was that thesubtitle producers accidentally broadcast the subtitle screen for practice. Because this incident happened about five months after theFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident andcesium is aradioactive pollutant, it caused a public outcry.[4]
After the incident, Tokai TV received a large number of calls and emails from viewers to protest.Iwate Governor Tatsumoto also protested against Tokai TV on behalf of the Iwate government.[5] The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Union issued a serious warning in writing to Tokai TV for this incident.[6] After the incident, Tokai TV stopped broadcastingthe program.[clarify] Then president Shuo Asano also publicly apologized on TV and to the Iwate Prefectural Government. Tokai TV also set up a countermeasure headquarters to comprehensively verify the cause of the accident and prevent similar incidents from happening again. On August 30, Tokai TV broadcast a one-hour report, explaining the cause of the incident, and apologized to the audience andagricultural workers in Iwate Prefecture. After the incident, Tokai Television also established a regeneration committee to rebuildbroadcasting ethics and launch activities to support theTohoku region.
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