Kansai Telecasting Corporation

JODX-DTV, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 17), branded as or , is the Kansai region key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS), operated by the . Kansai TV is a company affiliated in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.

Offices

*the headquarters – 1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
*Tokyo Branch Office – Jiji Press Building, 15-8, Ginza Gochome, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
*Nagoya Branch Station – Telepia, 14-25, Higashi-Sakura Itchome, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Advertising slogan

*April, 1975: Stay tune, Channel 8. (チャンネルそのまま8チャンネル, Because Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS) were exchanged; more details on the exchange in its own articles.)
*1994: Dash
*1995 – March, 1997: Peechiku-Park Station (ピーチクパークステーション, Hachiemon, the mascot character of Kansai TV, was born.)
*April, 1997–March 29, 2015 : Kante-le (カンテーレ)
*March 30, 2015 – present : More than, Kantele (超えろ。カンテレ)

History of Kansai TV

*February 1, 1958 – Dai Kansai TV Company (大関西テレビ放送株式会社) was founded.
*July 5, 1958 – Dai Kansai TV was renamed "Kansai Telecasting Corporation", and started analog terrestrial telecasting on November 22.
*1959 – Kansai TV formed a TV network with Fuji TV, Tokai TV and Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting
*1964 – The affiliated station of the network in Fukuoka changed to TV Nishinippon.
*1966 – Fuji News Network (FNN) was formed.
*1970 – Fuji Network System (FNS) was formed.
*1982 – Kansai TV hosted the first Osaka Women's Marathon.
*1992 – Kansai TV opened Lemon Studio in Tokyo.
*October 1, 1997 – Kansai TV moved the headquarters from Nishi-Temma, Kita-ku, Osaka to Ogimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka. While its old Nishi-Temma headquarters demolished in 2011 and now as a car parking lot.
*December 1, 2003 – Kansai TV started digital terrestrial telecasting.
*July 24, 2011 – Analog terrestrial telecasting ended.
*March 30, 2015 – Kansai TV aborts its 51-year-old long-running abstract KTV-wordmark logo alongside its 8-symbol which ends their usage for the first time of 51 years since 1964, and by that, the station unifies its appellation as "Kantele (カンテレ)" as it adopts a new logo which consists of a purple 8 on a purple shadow and it is beside to the grey Kantale, so for now, its new logo will be stylized as "8 kantele (8 カンテレ)".関西テレビ春の改編に合わせロゴを一新。槇原敬之が関西テレビへの応援歌をプロデュース！！
(in Japanese). Kansai Telecasting Corporation. March 17, 2015.

Broadcasting

Digital

JODX-DTV
*Virtual: 8
*Osaka (Mt. Ikoma) – Channel 17
;Shiga Prefecture
:*Otsu, Hikone, Koka – Channel 17
:*Shigaraki – Channel 48
;Kyōto Prefecture
:*Fukuchiyama, Maizuru, Miyazu, Mineyama, Kameoka – Channel 17
:*Yamashina – Channel 47
;Osaka Prefecture
:*Kashiwara, Miksaki, Nose – Channel 17
;Hyōgo Prefecture
:*Mt. Maya (Kobe), Himeji, Hokutan-Tarumi, Miki, Kasumi, Kinosaki, Tatsuno, Fukusaki, Nishiwaki, Sasayama, Hikami, Ako, Aioi, Kawanishi-Keyakizaka, Nantan – Channel 17
:*Inagawa – Channel 40
:*Ichijima – Channel 34
:*Yoka, Hidaka, Yamasaki – Channel 29
:*Nagata-ku, Myoho-ji – Channel 39
:*Kanzaki – Channel 44
;Nara Prefecture
:*Tochihara – Channel 41
;Wakayama Prefecture
:*Wakayama, Kinokawa, Kainan, Gobo, Kibi, Arida, Tanabe, Shimotsu, SHingu, Kushimoto – Channel 17
:*Hashimoto – Channel 44
:*Tanabe-kita, Minabegawa, Yura – Channel 48

Analog

*as of the end of the broadcasting
JODX-TV
*Osaka (Mt. Ikoma) and cities along Osaka Bay – Channel 8
;Shiga Prefecture
:*Otsu – Channel 40
:*Shigaraki – Channel 37
:*Koka – Channel 59
:*Hikone – Channel 60
;Kyoto Prefecture
:*Yamashina, Kyoto – Channel 58
:*Kameoka – Channel 37
:*Fukuchiyama – Channel 60
:*Maizuru – Channel 59
;Osaka Prefecture
:*Hirakata – Channel 57
:*Kashiwara – Channel 58
:*Miksaki – Channel 58
;Hyōgo Prefecture
:*Kobe – Channel 43
:*Himeji – Channel 60
:*Nishinomiya-Yamaguchi – Channel 59
:*Toyooka – Channel 60
:*Kasumi – Channel 37
;Nara Prefecture
:*Ikoma-Asukano – Channel 39
:*Gojo – Channel 37
:*Yoshino – Channel 38
;Wakayama Prefecture
:*Wakayama – Channel 46
:*Gobo – Channel 59
:*Kinokawa – Channel 59
:*Kainan – Channel 60
:*Hashimoto – Channel 29
:*Arida – Channel 39
:*Kushimoto – Channel 59
:*Shingu – Channel 40

Programs (Times in JST)

News

;Every Sunday morning
:*KTV News ( KTVニュース) – from 6:00 a.m. until 6:15 a.m.
;Before noon
:*FNN Speak ( FNNスピーク) – from 11:30 a.m. until noon on weekdays and from 11:45 a.m. until noon on Saturdays
:*KTV News (KTVニュース) – from 11:50 a.m. until noon on Sundays
;In the evening
:*FNN Supernews Anchor ( FNNスーパーニュースアンカー) – from 4:54 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on weekdays
:*FNN Supernews WEEKEND ( FNNスーパーニュースWEEKEND) – from 5:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. every weekend
;Before 9 p.m.
:* KTV News Pick Up – from 8:54 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. every day (Regularly news from Tokyo, sometimes news from Osaka)

Information

*Gokigen Lifestyle Ready, Go! ( ごきげんライフスタイル よ〜いドン!)
*Hapi-kuru! (Happiness is on its way!) ( ハピくるっ!)
*Niji Iro Jean ( にじいろジーン)
*Momoko no Oh! Sore! Miyo! ( モモコのOH!ソレ!み～よ!)
*Mr. Sunday ( Mr.サンデー) – collaboration with Fuji TV

Variety shows

*SMAP×SMAP (read: smap smap) – collaboration with Fuji TV
*Catherine (キャサリン) → Catherine III ( キャサリン三世)(end)
* Hiroiki Ariyoshi no Daretoku!? ( 有吉弘行のダレトク!?)
* Takajin Mune Ippai ( たかじん胸いっぱい)
*Uramayo! ( ウラマヨ!)
*Samma no Mamma ( さんまのまんま)
*R-1 Grand Prix
*Hakkutsu! Aru-aru Dai-Jiten → Hakkutsu! Aru-aru Dai-Jiten II ( 発掘!あるある大事典→発掘!あるある大事典II)(end)
*Kaimono Seikatsu Nambo de Nambo? ( 買物生活ほんでなんぼ?) (end)
*Gout Temps Series (グータンシリーズ) (end)

Dramas produced by Kansai TV

*27 FNS stations　from 10 p.m. until 10:54 p.m. on Tuesdays
*Current:
:See th
Official website
for the current TV drama.

;In past (10 p.m. on Tuesdays)
:* Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)
:* (starring Ryoko Yonekura, shown on FNS stations including Fuji TV)
:*
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:*
:*
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:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
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:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
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:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
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:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV) – based on the manga "Real Clothes" by Satoru Makimura
:*
:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV) – based on the novel "Good Life" by Cho Chang-In
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:* (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
:* (with MMJ)
and more...
;Special
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Sports

*Professional Baseball Live (プロ野球中継, the Hanshin Tigers and the Orix Buffaloes)
*Osaka International Ladies Marathon (大阪国際女子マラソン, Hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai TV, the Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Radio Osaka and Osaka City)
* Keiba Beat (競馬BEAT)
* Diamond Cup Golf

See also

* Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group

References

Website

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Fuji News Network
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Mass media in Osaka
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings
1958 establishments in Japan