ABC Television (Japan)

Not to be confused with TV Asahi, a flagship ANN station from Tokyo.

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1956–1959	1959–1970 (primary); 1970–1989 (secondary)	1959–1974	1970–1989


1989–2001 (primary), 2001-2008 (secondary)	2001–2015	2008–2015 (primary); 2015–present (secondary)	2015–present

Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation also known as ABCテレビ i.e. ABC Television or ABC TV and colloquially known as AY, is a Japanese commercial television station serving the Kansai region (except Mie) as the western flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. Based in Osaka, the station broadcasts on virtual channel 6 and UHF digital channel 15 with the call sign JOAY-DTV and is owned by Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings since 2018.

Osaka Television[]

1956–1959[]

ABC TV started on May 25, 1955, when New Japan Broadcasting System (NJB) and the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded Osaka Television Co., Ltd. (OTV), before commencing its broadcasts on December 1st of the following year under the callsign JOBX-TV which its call letters are currently in use at Oita Asahi Broadcasting, an ANN station in Kyūshū. At that time, OTV was affiliated with Radio Tokyo TV (now known as TBS Television) and NTV for its first two years.

ABC Television[]

1959–1970 (primary); 1970–1989 (secondary)[]

After its affiliation with NTV was lost due to the creation of Yomiuri TV in 1958, ABC purchased OTV and rebranded itself to ABC-OTV in the time of transition during March of the following year. In June of that year, the station rebranded to ABC Television with the callsign JONR-TV, an analog signal which lasted until 2011. Despite the logo being retired in 1970 in favor of the then-new ABC logo from that period being introduced, the logo continued to be used on the sign-on ident until 1989.

1959–1974[]

At this point ABC had only TBS programming, and in May of 1965, the station joined the Japan News Network (JNN), the national television network of TBS. This letters very similar to letters of 1962 American ABC logo.

1970–2008[]

1970–1989[]

On March 31, 1975, in the behalf of the Asahi Shimbun Company, ABC swapped its affiliations with MBS Television, with ABC becoming the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network, along NET (now known as TV Asahi) in Tokyo.

1989–2001 (primary), 2001-2008 (secondary)[]

On December 1, 2003, ABC commenced its digital broadcasts as JONR-DTV.

2001–2015[]

Name:

Kyukyu

Species:

Sentient white and yellow cube

Designer:

Bunpei Yorifuji

On December 1, 2001, to celebrate the broacaster's 50th anniversary and ABC's introduction of a ISO 14001 certification, the brand logo was changed to a depiction of the broadcaster's first mascot, Kyukyu, which was introduced on the same day with the slogan "info designing, ABC" also being introduced at that time. The previous logo was still used on production credits, show posters, promos, vehicles, the digital feed's on screen bug and for corporate purposes until 2008. Despite this, the logo continued to be used on the digital station ID until 2015 when it was changed following the introduction of Abciee.

2008–2015 (primary); 2015–present (secondary)[]

Designer:

Tamotsu Shimada for
Tokyo Great Visual

Typography:

Custom

Launched:

2008

2015–present[]

In 2018, ABC became a certified holding company, as a result ABC's television operations became Asahi Television Broadcasting (ABC TV) and ABC's radio operations became Asahi Radio Broadcasting. As a result, the callsign for the television station changed to JOAY-DTV.

JNN affiliated station
(August 1959–March 1975)

MBS

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MBS

ANN affiliated station
(Since April 1975)