TBS Television (Japan)

JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as TBS Television (TBSテレビ, TBS Terebi), is the Kantō region flagship station of the Japan News Network. It is owned-and-operated by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.^{[lower-alpha 1]}, a subsidiary of TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''.

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JORX-DTV

Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo
Kantō Region, Japan
City	Tokyo
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 6
Branding	TBS Television
Programming
Affiliations	Japan News Network
Ownership
Owner	Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
Sister stations	BS-TBS TBS Channel 1 TBS Channel 2 TBS News
History
First air date	April 1, 1955; 69 years ago (1955-04-01)
Former call signs	JOKR-TV (1955-2001) JORX-TV (2001-2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 6 (VHF) (1955-2011)
Call sign meaning	JOKR-TV: JO Kabushiki gaisha Radio Tokyo (former name of TBS) JORX-(D)TV: JO Radio Tokyo (X)
Technical information
Licensing authority	MIC
ERP	10 kW (68 kW ERP)
Transmitter coordinates	35°39′31″N 139°44′44″E
Translator(s)	Niijima, Tokyo Analog: Channel 56 Mito, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 40 Digital: Channel 15 Utsunomiya, Tochigi Analog: Channel 55 Digital: Channel 15 Maebashi, Gunma Analog: Channel 56 Digital: Channel 43 Kiryū, Gunma Analog: Channel 55 Chichibu, Saitama Analog: Channel 18 Narita, Chiba Analog: Channel 55 Tateyama, Chiba Analog: Channel 56 Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 56 Yokosuka-Kurihama, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 39 Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 37 Digital: Channel 22 Odawara, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 56
Corporate information
Company
Native name	株式会社TBSテレビ
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha TBS terebi
Company type	Subsidiary KK
Industry	Media
Founded	March 21, 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-03-21) in Tokyo, Japan
Headquarters	TBS Broadcasting Center, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Services	Television broadcasting Television program production and distribution
Parent	TBS Holdings, Inc.
Website	www.tbs.co.jp
Footnotes / references Data from its Corporate Profile

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TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to Ultraman and the Ultra Series franchise from 1966 – itself a spinoff to Ultra Q, co-produced and broadcast in the same year – and its spinoffs, most if not all made by Tsuburaya Productions for the network; in the 2010s, Ultra Series moved to TV Tokyo. Since the 1990s it is home to Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan, by itself a spinoff to the legendary TBS game show Kinniku Banzuke that lasted for 7 seasons.

On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms (TV Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc., WOWOW, Dentsu and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners) officially announced that they would jointly establish a new company in July to offer paid online video services called Paravi. TBS Holdings would become the largest shareholder of the new company, Premium Platform Japan, with a 31.5% stake. An official from TBS Holdings, named Yasuhiro Takatsuna, became the new company's president.^[1][2][3]