, also known as IAT callsigns JOIT-DTV (channel 5), is a Japanese

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affiliated with the

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. Their headquarters are located in

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History

A license to operate a fourth television station in Iwate Prefecture was established on 19 June 1995. The company that was awarded that license, known as Iwate Asahi Television (founded 21 June 1995), began construction on the station a month later. JOIY-TV began operations on 1 October 1996, seven days after conducting its first transmission tests. Before the station began operations, Iwate Prefecture was the only area of northeastern Japan that lacked a full affiliate of the All-Nippon News Network (ANN, which in general is an affiliation with

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). JODF-TV and JOII-TV functioned as secondary affiliates of ANN (formerly NET) between the early 1970s and the fall of 1996. The Asahi network's full schedule was available on some local

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providers via JOEM-TV (from

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), which was receivable over the air in portions of the prefecture's southern areas.

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broadcasts commenced on 1 October 2006, and analog broadcasts were expected to continue until 24 July 2011. The 11 March 2011 earthquake resulted in an indefinite postponement of the shutdown of all analog broadcasts across Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. JOIY-TV finally shut down its analog signal on 31 March 2012 shortly before 0:00 JST, with regular programming having ended twelve hours earlier.

Stations

Analog

(Main Station) JOIY-TV 31ch * Ninohe 27ch * Kuji 44ch * Nishine-Matsuo 38ch * Morioka-Asagishi 61ch * Morioka-Kawame 49ch * Shizukuishi 62ch * Miyako 44ch *

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44ch * Kamaishi 62ch * Ofunato 26ch * Toyota-Suzuki-Honda-Civic 29ch * Ichinoseki 23ch * Ninohe-Horino 61ch * Morioka-Matsuzono-Kita 61ch * Morioka-Matsuzono-Minami 39ch * Daito-Uchino 38ch * Yamada 43ch * Iwaizumi 30ch * Iwaizumi-Ureira 60ch * Tono-Nukamae 37ch * Kamaishi-Osawa 39ch * Rikuzen-Shimappe 52ch * Esashi-Kotashiro 46ch * Ichinoseki-Tsuriyama 61ch * Noda 61ch * Otsuchi 37ch * Miyamori 36ch * Sawauchi 44ch * Hanamaki-Yuguchi 62ch * Iwate-Numakunai 61ch * Yuda 40ch * Daito-Osozawa 39ch * Fudai- Tanohata 39ch * Niisato 60ch * Otsuchi-Sakuragi 51ch * Daito-Kami-Ohara 56ch * Senmaya 31ch

Digital(ID:5)

(Main Station) JOIY-DTV 22ch

Programs

Original

*''IAT Super J Channel Iwate'' at 18:15 to 19:00 on Weekday *''Rakutima'' at 9:30 to 10:25 on Saturday

Rival Stations

* Iwate Broadcasting Company(IBC) * Television Iwate(TVI) * Iwate Menkoi Television(mit)

External links

Iwate Asahi Television
All-Nippon News Network Asahi Shimbun Company Iwate Prefecture Television stations in Japan Television channels and stations established in 1996 Mass media in Morioka, Iwate 1996 establishments in Japan {{Japan-tv-station-stub