TV Aichi

Aichi Television Broadcasting Company, Ltd. (TVA; Template:Langx), also referred to as Template:Nihongo, with the callsigns JOCI-DTV (channel 10) is a Japanese television station in Nagoya serving as the affiliate of the TX Network for the Aichi prefecture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> TVA started broadcasting in 1983.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nikkei, Inc. is the biggest shareholder of TVA.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

After concluding its restructuring plan, TV Tokyo began building its own national network, starting with TV Osaka on March 1, 1982.<ref name="shashi15">Template:Cite book |location=愛知縣 |url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA37518214/}}</ref>Template:Rp Later, TV Tokyo and its main shareholder Nihon Keizai Shimbun announced plans to open a station in Nagoya and invited Chunichi Shimbun to take part in its creation.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In November 1981, Nikkei solicited the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for the opening of a new television station in Aichi Prefecture.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp By late February 1982, 105 companies have expressed interest in the bid.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp MPT suggested a meeting with the then-governor of Aichi Mikine Kuwahara and the then-president of Tokai Bank Shigemitsu Miyake to present a merger of their bids. On July 6, the companies that were attracted by the bid merged to form TV Aichi and requested a license, obtaining a preliminary license on July 13.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp On September 6, TVA held its founders' meeting, followed by a founders' general assembly on December 1.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp Construction work for its headquarters began on August 26, 1982, the Nikkey Nagoya Broadcasting Hall. On August 2, 1983, the station moved there in order to begin its activities.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp TVA chose the work of designer Shigeo Okamoto for its logo (still in use), he was also in charge of the station's sign-on and sign-off animations (withdrawn when the analog signals shut down in 2011).<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp It became the second UHF station in Nagoya, after Chukyo TV, which started fourteen years earlier.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp

On September 1, 1983, at 5:59am, TV Aichi started broadcasting, the fifth commercial TV station in Nagoya and the hundredth commercial TV station to be set up at a national scale.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The first program seen was the Japanese dance Kiyomoto: Dance of the Two Seasons.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The station recorded a prime time share of 9,1% on opening night.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In the fourth quarter of the year, the station recorded a 5% share during prime time (7-10pm), 4,5% during golden time (7-11pm) and a full-day average of 2%. During the first quarter of 1985, these figures rose to 6,8%, 6% and 2,9% respectively.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp TVA obtained a profit of 12 million yen in 1985, the first time since launch.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1988, prime time ratings obtained a 7.6% share, golden time obtained 6.7% and all-day, a 3.2% average.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp That year, it liquidated its accumulated losses.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1990, it started issuing stock dividends.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp

TVA recorded an average growth rate higher than 10% in revenue and profits during the 1990s, at a rate higher than the four other TV stations in Nagoya.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp Revenue jumped from 42nd place in 1992 to 24th place in 1997 among all of the commercial television stations.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1996, its revenue reached 10,846 billion yen, surpassing the 10 billion yen mark for the first time; its profit hit 1,324 billion yen, also a new record.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1998, revenue rose to 11,224 billion yen and its profit was 1,285 billion yen.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The good financial results also led in improvements to its programming and ratings throughout the 90s.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1997, prime time ratings recorded 8.7% share, golden time 7.9% and all-day 4.0% average. Although the evening metrics were the second-highest in its history, the all-day average was an all-time record.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp On December 14, 1997, TVA had obtained the highest ratings average for an entire day for 100 weeks straight, a record for TXN's stations.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The amount of in-house productions increased to 11% in 1998, up from just 7% in 1993.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp

On December 1, 2003, TVA started digital terrestrial television broadcasts, using LCN 10 instead of the standard TXN LCN 7.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On July 24, 2011, its analog signal shut down.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The station celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2018, doing promotional actions throughout the year and a five-hour special program on September 1.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2020, it joined the Locipo VOD service alongside Tokai TV, CBC and Chukyo TV.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Programming

At launch, it used the slogans "Channel 25 for Love and Intelligence" and "TV Aichi for a Smiling Family" to promote itself. Its programming initially consisted largely of local news, lifestyle programs, business programs and women's interest programs.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The goal was to set up 10% of its programming to be locally-made.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The first news program was TVA Hot Report (TVAホットレポート), which aired on weekdays at 5pm.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp It was replaced in 1991 with TV Aichi News at 5 O'Clock (5時ですテレビ愛知ニュース). It recorded a share of 3.8% in 1996.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp The station changed its airtime for local news in 1997 and replaced it with News Sunset Ichiban (ニュース夕方いちばん), now starting at 5:25pm.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp That year, it also aired the moment when Nagoya was selected as the host city of a specialized expo in 2005.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp Since 2020, the evening news program is 5 O'Clock Studio (5時スタ).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Data Analysis| Sunday Journal (データで解析!サンデージャーナル) airs on Sunday afternoons and collects data from the largest cities of Japan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>。

In its early years, the channel aired TV Culture Housewife DO! (TVカルチャー奥さまDO！), a program aimed at women, as well as Minomonta no Shukan Desuyo (みのもんたの時間ですよー), on Saturday afternoons, and economic programs such as Tokai no Gunzoku.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp It also produced historical dramas such as Mori Runmaru and Nagoya Castle for Women.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp Recent non-news programming includes Nogizaka Construction, a late night show on Fridays, since 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since 1998, it airs a music show, Kuro Channel (黒ちゃんねる).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Kusuguru (くすぐる) is a local information program airing on Saturday mornings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>。

TVA airs Nippon Professional Baseball. Ratings for its games in 1993 attracted an average share of 16,4%.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp That year, it started airing J-League attracting an average share of 11,2%, but fell to 6,9% in the following year.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp In 1996, TVA aired golf and NASCAR for the first time.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:RpIn 1998, it bgan producing Doragura (どらぐら) with the latest news from the Chunichi Dragons and the Nagoya Grampus Eights.<ref name="shashi15" />Template:Rp

TVA is also in charge of TXN's 8am Saturday morning anime slot. In 2020, the anime was Cardfight Vanguard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Website

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