Kansai Telecasting Corporation

Kansai Television Company Limited (関西テレビ放送株式会社, Kansai Terebi Hōsō kabushiki gaisha, KTV), often called Kansai TV (関西テレビ, Kansai-terebi) or Kantele (カンテレ), is a tv station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Osaka, serving the Kansai region of Japan. Kansai TV is a company affiliated in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.

Kansai Television Company Limited
Native name
関西テレビ放送株式会社
Kansai Terebi Hōsō kabushiki gaisha
FormerlyKansai Telecasting Corporation
TypePublic KK
IndustryInformation, Communication
FoundedOsaka, Japan (February 1, 1958 (1958-02-01))
Headquarters
1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka
,
Japan
Area served
Kansai region, Japan
Key people
Shoichi Hamu (President)
ServicesTelecasting
Revenue
  • ¥66,105 million (2012)[1]
  • ¥66,091 million (2011)
  • ¥4,301 million (2012)[1]
  • ¥4,055 million (2011)
  • ¥2,078 million [1]
  • ¥2,382 million (2011)
Total assets
  • ¥115,051 million (2012)[1]
  • ¥112,421 million (2011)
Total equity
  • ¥84,535 million (2012)[1]
  • ¥79,132 million (2011)
Owner
Number of employees
570 (April, 2012)
Subsidiaries
  • KTVLIFE Corporation
  • Media Pulpo Co., Ltd.
  • Kansai TV Hazz Corporation
  • KTV Software Inc.
  • Lemon Studio Corporation
  • WEST ONE inc.
  • Central Television, inc.
Websitewww.ktv.jp/en/
JODX-DTV
Osaka, Kansai region
Japan
ChannelsDigital: 17 (UHF)
Virtual: 8
SloganHappy Kantele
Programming
Subchannels802, 803
AffiliationsFNN/FNS
Ownership
OwnerKansai Telecasting Corporation
History
FoundedFebruary 1, 1958
First air date
November 22, 1958
Former call signs
Analog
JODX-TV (1958–2011)
Former channel number(s)
Analog
8 (VHF, 1958–2011)
Technical information
Licensing authority
MIC
ERP29 kW
Links
Websitewww.ktv.jp/en/

Offices
  • the headquarters – 1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
  • Tokyo Branch Office – Jiji Tsushin 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 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)".[2]

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
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
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

Variety shows

Dramas produced by Kansai TV
  • 27 FNS stations　from 10 p.m. until 10:54 p.m. on Tuesdays
  • Current: Fight! Bookstore Girls (戦う!書店ガール)
See the Official website for the current TV drama.
In past (10 p.m. on Tuesdays)
  • Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)
  • HUNTER ~Sono Onna-tachi, Shoukin Kasegi~ (HUNTER〜その女たち、賞金稼ぎ〜, International title: HUNTER ~Women After Reward Money~) (starring Ryoko Yonekura, shown on FNS stations including Fuji TV)
  • Ii hito. (いいひと。, lit. A Good Parson)
  • Sommelier (ソムリエ)
  • Boku no Ikiru Michi (僕の生きる道, lit. My way to live)
  • Boku to Kanojo to Kanojo no Ikiru michi (僕と彼女と彼女の生きる道, lit. My, her, and her way to live)
  • At Home Dad (アットホーム・ダッド)
  • Ganbatte Ikimasshoi (がんばっていきまっしょい) (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
  • Oniyome Nikki (鬼嫁日記)
  • Unfair (アンフェア)
  • Busu no Hitomi ni Koishiteru (ブスの瞳に恋してる, lit. I can't Take My Eyes off the Unpretty) (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
  • Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (結婚できない男, lit. The Man who cannot marry)
  • Boku no Aruku Michi (僕の歩く道, lit. My way to walk)
  • Himitsu no Hanazono (ヒミツの花園)
  • Oniyome Nikki Ii Yu dana (鬼嫁日記 いい湯だな)
  • Love & Farm (牛に願いを～Love & Farm～) (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
  • Monster Parent (モンスターペアレント)
  • Real Clothes (リアル・クローズ) (wholly produced by Kansai TV) – based on the manga "Real Clothes" by Satoru Makimura
  • Utsukushiki Rinjin (美しき隣人, lit. The Beautiful Neighbor)
  • Good Life (グッドライフ〜ありがとう、パパ。さよなら〜) (wholly produced by Kansai TV) – based on the novel "Good Life" by Cho Chang-In
  • Team Batista Series (チーム・バチスタシリーズ)
  • Hungry! (ハングリー!)
  • Me, Becoming a Doctor at Age 37 (37歳で医者になった僕) (wholly produced by Kansai TV)
  • "Saki" (サキ) (with MMJ)

and more...

Special
  • The Silence of Nightingale (ナイチンゲールの沈黙)
  • Ghostly Girl (幽かな彼女)

Sports

See also

References
  1. 平成24年3月期決算概要資料 [Financial Results for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2012] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kansai Telecasting Corporation. May 25, 2012.
  2. 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！！ Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese). Kansai Telecasting Corporation. March 17, 2015.

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