Nippon TV
Nippon Television Network Corporation (日本テレビ放送網株式会社, Nippon Terebi Hōsōmō Kabushiki-gaisha), doing business as Nippon TV, is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as Nihon Terebi (日本テレビ), contracted to Nittere (日テレ), and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".
History of Nippon Television
July 1952: Nippon TV is granted the first TV broadcasting license in Japan.
October 28, 1952: Nippon Television Network Corporation is established.
August 28, 1953: Nippon Television signs on as Asia’s first commercial TV station with an animated dove spreading its wings (similar to NBC’s peacock logo introduced three years later). Japan’s first television commercial (for Seikosha clocks) is also aired.
December 1958: NTV introduces videotape recording in a one-off drama series using RCA 2-inch quad tape.
December 3, 1959: NTV airs Japan’s first color VTR broadcast, Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall from NBC.
