Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Encyclopedia
is a regional radio
and television
broadcaster headquartered in Osaka
, Japan
, serving in the Kansai region.
Nara Prefecture
Shiga Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture
Hyogo Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture
Saturday morning news and information
News in the evening
Evening information
Quiz
Variety
Anime broadcast Sunday morning (8: 30 a.m. - 9 a.m.)
Sports
FM Radio
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
and television
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
broadcaster headquartered in Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, serving in the Kansai region.
Offices
- Headquarters: 1-30, Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-kuFukushima-ku, Osakais one of 24 wards of Osaka city, Japan.The ward is primarily a residential quarter, but has some office buildings and a commercial district, as well as factories and wholesale businesses....
, Osaka-shiOsakais a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
(HotarumachiHotarumachiis a mixed-use redevelopment project in Fukushima-ku ward of Osaka City, Japan, located on the former site of Osaka University Hospital.- Facilities :*Headquarters of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation*:ABC Hall*Dōjima River Forum...
) - Tokyo Office: 10th floor of Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Office Shinkan, 3-2, Tsukiji Gochome, Chūō-kuChuo, Tokyois one of the 23 special wards that form the heart of Tokyo, Japan. The ward refers to itself as Chūō City in English.Its Japanese name literally means "Central Ward," and it is historically the main commercial center of Tokyo, although Shinjuku has risen to challenge it since the end of World War II...
, Tokyo, Japan - Nagoya Office: 9th floor of RICCO Sakae, 14-7, Sakae Sanchome, Naka-kuNaka-ku, Nagoyais the heart of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Largely hemmed in by Sakura-dōri , Ōtsu-dōri , Fushimi-dōri and Tsurumai-dōri , it contains the main shopping area of Sakae, a massive air-conditioned 5 square-kilometer underground mall) and the 'after-five' semi-red light districts of Nishiki and...
, Nagoya-shi, Japan
Radio
- Japan Radio Network (JRN)Japan Radio NetworkJapan Radio Network or JRN is a commercial radio network in Japan. The network is run by TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. .-Japan Radio Network stations:...
- National Radio Network (NRN)National Radio Network (Japan)National Radio Network is a commercial radio network in Japan. The network is run by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Incorporated and Nippon Broadcasting System, Incorporated . It is not connected in any way with the National Radio Network in the United States.-National Radio Network stations:...
TV
- Japan News Network (JNN) (until March 30, 1975)
- All-Nippon News Network (ANN)All-Nippon News Network, or ANN, is a commercial television news network in Japan run by TV Asahi Corporation.-All-Nippon News Network stations:-Remote Controller Buttons of Digital TV:*1: Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting*3: TV Miyazaki*5: 20 ANN stations...
(March 31, 1975 - Present)
History of ABC
- March 15, 1951 - Asahi Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Nakanoshima, Kita-kuKita-ku, Osakais one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan.-Economy:West Japan Railway Company has its headquarters in Kita-ku. Nihon Bussan has its headquarters in Kita-ku. Dentsu and Yomiuri Shimbun have branch offices in Kita-ku. Mazda has an office in the Umeda Sky Building Tower East. Air France has an office on the...
. ABC started AM radio broadcasting on November 11 (1010 kHz). - May 25, 1955 - ABC and New Japan Broadcasting Company (NJB, the predecessor of Mainichi Broadcasting SystemMainichi Broadcasting Systemis a broadcasting station in Osaka, Japan, affiliated with Japan Radio Network , National Radio Network , Japan News Network and TBS Network, serving in the Kansai region. MBS is also one of the major stockholders of Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc...
) founded in Dojima, Kita-ku. - December 1, 1956 - OTV started television broadcasting on channel 6, under the callsign JOBX-TV.
- March 1, 1959 - ABC acquired OTV and renamed the television station .
- June 1, 1959 - ABC merged with OTV, and has been broadcasting both television and radio since then.
- May 2, 1965 - ABC joined Japan Radio Network (JRN)Japan Radio NetworkJapan Radio Network or JRN is a commercial radio network in Japan. The network is run by TBS Radio & Communications, Inc. .-Japan Radio Network stations:...
, and the next day it also joined another commercial radio network National Radio Network (NRN)National Radio Network (Japan)National Radio Network is a commercial radio network in Japan. The network is run by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Incorporated and Nippon Broadcasting System, Incorporated . It is not connected in any way with the National Radio Network in the United States.-National Radio Network stations:...
. - 1966 - Dispersed offices and studios were integrated into the headquarters building in Oyodo-minami, Oyodo-ku (present: Kita-ku).
- March 31, 1975 - ABC pulled out of JNN and joined All-Nippon News Network (ANN)All-Nippon News Network, or ANN, is a commercial television news network in Japan run by TV Asahi Corporation.-All-Nippon News Network stations:-Remote Controller Buttons of Digital TV:*1: Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting*3: TV Miyazaki*5: 20 ANN stations...
on behalf of Asahi ShimbunAsahi ShimbunThe is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
, one of major shareholders of ABC. ABC was one of founders of Japan News Network (JNN), the first news network of commercial television stations in Japan. - November 23, 1978 - The frequency of ABC AM radio changed from 1010 kHz to 1008 kHz.
- March 23, 2001 - ABC acquired ISO 14001ISO 14000The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect the...
certification, the first broadcaster in Japan to do so. - January 1, 2008 - The ABC logo was redesigned, featuring the call letters ABC and the name "Asahi Broadcasting Corporation", "朝日放送", "Radio", or "TV" under the slope line from the letter "C". A simplified version (only three latters of "ABC") is used in program credits.
- May 19, 2008 - ABC moved the headquarters from Oyodo-minami Nichome, Kita-ku to Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku.
- June 23, 2008 - ABC started broadcasting from its present headquarters.
Radio
JONR- Osaka: 1008 kHz, 50 kW
- Kyoto: 1008 kHz, 300 W
- Time: from 4:30 a.m. on Monday until 2:30 a.m. on Monday
- Time signal: 523.251Hz (C5C (musical note)C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solfège scale. Its enharmonic is B.-Middle C:Middle C is designated C4 in scientific pitch notation because of the note's position as the fourth C key on a standard 88-key piano keyboard...
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Branch stations of TV broadcasting
Osaka Prefecture- Kashiwara (digital): Channel 15
- Misaki (digital): Channel 15
- Naka-Nose (digital): Channel 15
- Nishi-Nose (digital): Channel 15
Nara Prefecture
- Tochihara (analog): Channel 35
- Tochihara (digital): Channel 37
- Yoshino (analog): Channel 36
Shiga Prefecture
- Otsu (analog): Channel 38
- Otsu (digital): Channel 15
- Otsu-Ishiyama (digital): Channel 27
- Hikone (analog): Channel 58
- Hikone (digital): Channel 15
- Koka (digital): Channel 15
Kyoto Prefecture
- Yamashina, Kyoto (analog): Channel 56
- Yamashina, Kyoto (digital): Channel 37
- Kameoka (analog): Channel 35
- Kameoka (digital): Channel 15
- Fukuchiyama (analog): Channel 58
- Fukuchiyama (digital): Channel 15
- Maizuru (analog): Channel 55
- Maizuru (digital): Channel 15
- Naka-Maizuru (digital): Channel 31
- Nodagawa (digital): Channel 31
- Miyazu (analog): Channel 35
- Miyazu (digital): Channel 15
Hyogo Prefecture
- Kobe (mountain area) (analog): Channel 41
- Kobe (mountain area) (digital): Channel 15
- Nada, Kobe (analog): Channel 56
- Hokutan-Tarumi (analog): Channel 57
- Hokutan-Tarumi (digital): Channel 15
- Nishinomiya-Yamaguchi (digital): Channel 15
- Inagawa (analog): Channel 35
- Inagawa (digital): Channel 38
- Tatsuno (digital): Channel 15
- Miki (analog): Channel 38
- Miki (digital): Channel 15
- Himeji (analog): Channel 58
- Himeji (digital): Channel 15
- Himeji-nishi (digital): Channel 15
- Ako (analog): Channel 58
- Ako (digital): Channel 15
- Wadayama (digital): Channel 15
- Kinosaki (analog): Channel 58
- Kinosaki (digital): Channel 15
- Kasumi (analog): Channel 35
- Kasumi (digital): Channel 15
- Sasayama (digital): Channel 15
- Hikami (digital): Channel 15
- Aioi (digital): Channel 15
- Yamasaki (digital): Channel 20
- Fukusaki (digital): Channel 15
- Yoka (digital): Channel 31
Wakayama Prefecture
- Wakayama (analog): Channel 44
- Wakayama (digital): Channel 15
- Kinokawa (digital): Channel 15
- Kainan (analog): Channel 58
- Kainan (digital): Channel 15
- Hashimoto (digital): Channel 42
- Gobo (analog): Channel 57
- Gobo (digital): Channel 15
- Kibi (digital): Channel 15
- Tanabe-kita (digital): Channel 15
- Tanabe (analog): Channel 58
- Tanabe (digital): Channel 15
- Arida (digital): Channel 15
- Shingu (analog): Channel 38
- Shingu (digital): Channel 15
- Kushimoto (analog): Channel 57
- Kushimoto (digital): Channel 15
- Minabegawa (digital): Channel 38
TV
Weekday morning news and information- Ohayo Call ABC. (おはようコールABC)
- Good morning, this is ABC. (おはよう朝日です Ohayo Asahi Desu)
Saturday morning news and information
- Good morning, this is ABC Saturday Version (おはよう朝日・土曜日です Ohayo Asahi Doyobi Desu)
- Salad of travel (朝だ!生です旅サラダ)
News in the evening
- ABC News (ABCニュース)
- ABC NEWS You (ABC NEWSゆう)→NEWS You Plus (NEWSゆう+)→CAST (キャスト), etc.
Evening information
- Move! (ムーブ!, end, merged to "ABC NEWS You"), etc.
Quiz
- Panel Quiz Attack 25 (パネルクイズアタック25)
Variety
- M-1 Grand PrixM-1 Grand Prix, was an annual Manzai competition planned by Shinsuke Shimada and run by Yoshimoto Kogyo. The supporter Asahi Broadcasting Corporation broadcast the final live throughout Japan via All-Nippon News Network in December.-The way to be the Champion:...
(M-1 グランプリ) - Knight Scoop (探偵ナイトスクープ)
- Knight in Night (ナイト in ナイト, from Monday to Thursday)
- Monday: Gokigen Brand-new (ごきげん!ブランニュ)
- Tuesday: Ameagari KesshitaiAmeagari Kesshitai, also known simply as Ameagari, is a Japanese comedy duo consisting of Hiroyuki Miyasako and Tōru Hotohara . They are from Osaka and, like most other comedians from the kansai region, are employed by Yoshimoto Kōgyō....
: Find the Gaps between Women and Men! (雨上がりのやまとナゼ?しこ) - Wednesday: Imada's "In fact..." (今ちゃんの「実は…」)
- Thursday: B-Bop High-heel (ビーバップ!ハイヒール)
- The gold medal of laughter (笑いの金メダル, Waraking, end)
- That'S a DRAMATIC CHANGE!(大改造!!劇的ビフォーアフター), etc.
Anime broadcast Sunday morning (8
- Futari wa Pretty CureFutari wa Pretty CurePretty Cure, known in Japan as , is a Japanese magical girl anime series, part of the Pretty Cure metaseries produced by Toei Animation and broadcast across Japan by Animax, TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. The series is watched mostly by elementary and secondary students in Japan; it...
(ふたりはプリキュア) → Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart (ふたりはプリキュア Max Heart) → Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash StarFutari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star, often shortened simply to Pretty Cure Splash★Star or PreCure Splash★Star, is a magical girl anime series produced by Toei Animation and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, which aired in Japan Animax, TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation between February 5, 2006 and January 28, 2007...
(ふたりはプリキュア Splash★Star) → Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (YES! プリキュア5) → Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! (Yes! プリキュア5 GoGo!) → Fresh Pretty Cure!Fresh Pretty Cure!is a Japanese anime series and the sixth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation and Satelight, the series premiered on February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 on TV Asahi, replacing Yes! PreCure 5 Go Go! on its time slot...
(フレッシュプリキュア!) → HeartCatch PreCure!HeartCatch PreCure!, also called HeartCatch Pretty Cure! is a Japanese anime series and the seventh Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series premiered on February 7, 2010 on TV Asahi, following Fresh Pretty Cure!, and ended on January 30, 2011, where it was followed by Suite...
(ハートキャッチプリキュア!) → Suite PreCure! (スイートプリキュア♪) - Magical Doremi seriesOjamajo Doremi seriesMagical DoReMi, known as in Japan, is a magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation in 1999. It focuses on elementary school students who become witch apprentices. Led by Doremi Harukaze, the girls must maintain their double lives in secret.Magical DoReMi has been followed up by...
(おジャ魔女どれみシリーズ, ended) - Marmalade BoyMarmalade Boyis a shōjo manga by Wataru Yoshizumi. It was published by Shueisha in the magazine Ribon from May 1992 to October 1995 and collected in eight tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted by Toei Animation as a 76-episode anime television series which aired on TV Asahi and Fuji TV in 1994 to 1995. This...
(ママレード・ボーイ, ended) - Kaitou Saint Tail (怪盗セイント・テール, ended)
Sports
- National High School Baseball ChampionshipNational High School Baseball ChampionshipThe National High School Baseball Championship of Japan, commonly known as "Summer Kōshien" , is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament...
(全国高校野球選手権大会)- Netto KoshienNetto KoshienNetto Koshien is a television program in Japan providing a digest of the games of the summer National High School Baseball Championship, produced through a collaboration of TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , and is shown as part of the ANN program.Although this program was broadcast...
(熱闘甲子園)
- Netto Koshien
- Super Baseball (スーパーベースボール, baseball games of the Hanshin TigersHanshin TigersThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League. Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., owns the Hanshin Tigers directly...
(虎バン主義) and the Orix BuffaloesOrix BuffaloesThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka and Kobe, Japan. They play in the Pacific League. The team is owned by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo....
(大阪激弾!!)- Toraban (虎バン, a program relating to the Hanshin TigersHanshin TigersThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League. Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., owns the Hanshin Tigers directly...
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- Toraban (虎バン, a program relating to the Hanshin Tigers
- Japan LPGA ChampionshipJapan LPGA Championship, is the first-longest running tournament in the history of the Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association. surpassed only by Japan Women's Open...
, ABC Championship, etc.
Radio
- Good morning. This is the DJ, Yozo Dojo. (おはようパーソナリティ・道上洋三です)
- ABC Young Request (ABCヤングリクエスト, ended)
- ABC Freshup Baseball (ABCフレッシュアップベースボール), etc.
Radio and TV
- NHKNHKNHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
Osaka Broadcasting Station (NHK大阪放送局) - MBSMainichi Broadcasting Systemis a broadcasting station in Osaka, Japan, affiliated with Japan Radio Network , National Radio Network , Japan News Network and TBS Network, serving in the Kansai region. MBS is also one of the major stockholders of Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc...
(毎日放送) - KBS KyotoKyoto Broadcasting Systemis a commercial broadcasting station headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It is doing business in Kyoto Prefecture as and in Shiga Prefecture as Its radio station serves Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures and is a member of National Radio Network . Its television station serves Kyoto Prefecture and is a...
(KBS京都)
TV
- TV OsakaTV Osakais a TV station affiliated with TXN in Osaka, Japan. The mascot character is "Takoru-kun" .-Offices:*The headquarters - 1-2-18, Otemae, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan...
/ テレビ大阪 (TVO) - Kansai TVKansai Telecasting Corporation, often called or , is a TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System in Osaka, serving the Kansai region of Japan...
/ 関西テレビ (KTV) - Yomiuri TVYomiuri Telecasting Corporationis a TV station joining Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan founded as "" on February 13, 1958...
/読売テレビ (ytv) - SUN-TVSUN-TVis a commercial television station headquartered in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations .-Office:...
/ サンテレビ (SUN) - Nara TV / 奈良テレビ (TVN)
- Biwako BroadcastingBiwako Broadcastingis a fee-free commercial terrestrial television station serving Shiga Prefecture of Japan.It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations .Popular name Independent UHF Station .-Offices:...
/ びわ湖放送 (BBC) - TV Wakayama / テレビ和歌山 (WTV)
Radio
AM Radio- Radio OsakaOsaka Broadcasting Corporationis an AM radio station of National Radio Network in Osaka, Japan, and it is known as "Radio Osaka ". It is also a company of Sankei Shimbun Group in Fujisankei Communications Group...
(ラジオ大阪)
FM Radio
- FM 802
- FM OSAKAFm osakais a radio station in Osaka, Japan. It is an affiliated station of Japan FM Network .- History of FM OSAKA :On April 1, 1970, FM OSAKA started broadcasting as the first private FM station in Nakanoshima, Osaka nationwide as the only FM radio station affiliated with Japan FM Network in the Kansai...