is a
TV station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's ...
affiliated with
Fuji News Network (FNN) and
Fuji Network System (FNS) in
Morioka
is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. On 1 August 2023, the city had an estimated population of 283,981 in 132,719 households, and a population density of . The total area of t ...
,
Iwate.
The station functions as a default FNN affiliate for neighboring
Aomori Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori (city), Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is border ...
, which does not have a Fuji Television-affiliated station of its own.
History
JOYH-DTV began broadcasting on 1 April 1991 as JOYH-TV (channel 33), becoming the first dedicated affiliate of FNN (
Fuji Television
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...
) in the northeastern portion of
Tōhoku (the license had been awarded back in December 1989, but the station's construction began in the spring of 1990). Prior to the station's signon,
JODF-TV carried FNN as a secondary affiliation, while some cable providers in Iwate Prefecture carried
JOOX-TV, which was receivable over the air in the prefecture's extreme southern reaches.
Digital broadcasting began on 1 July 2006, and was expected to continue until July 2011. The
11 March 2011 earthquake resulted in the postponement of the shutdown date for all analog television signals in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. The station finally shut down its analog television service on 31 March 2012.
TV channels
Digital Television
*Morioka 20ch JOYH-DTV 1 kW
Translators
*Ninohe 50ch 100W
*Ichinoseki 29ch 25W
*Yachiyama 34ch 2W
*Tōno 19ch 20W
*Ōtsuchi-shinyama 47ch 2W
*Murone 29ch 3W
*Kamaishi 16ch 30W
*Miyako 16ch 20W
*Ōfunato 16ch 10W
*Kuji 46ch 3W
*Nishine-Matsuo 34ch 2W
*Ōtsushi 16ch 1W
*Noda 46ch 1W
Program
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External links
The official website of Iwate Menkoi Television
Fuji News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Mass media in Morioka, Iwate
1991 establishments in Japan
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