Fuji Television
Fuji Television Network, Inc.[a], also known as Fuji Television or Fuji TV[b], with the call sign JOCX-DTV, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). Fuji Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''.
Native name
株式会社フジ・メディア・ホールディングス
Kabushiki gaisha Fuji Media Hōrudingusu
"Old" Fuji Television Network, Inc. (1957–2008)
November 18, 1957 (as Fuji Television Network, Inc.)
4–8, Daiba Nichome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Worldwide, with a focus in Japan
- Masaki Miyauchi
(Chairman and CEO) - Koichi Minato
(President and COO)
Broadcast television and radio
¥22,319 million (consolidated, March 2017)[1]
¥27,396 million (consolidated, March 2017)[1]
¥1,018.5199 billion (consolidated, March 2017)[1]
Toho (7.86%), Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (3.30%; ultimately owned by the Society of Saint Paul)
Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Nippon Broadcasting System
Pony Canyon
Fujisankei Communications International
Fusosha Publishing
Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. (39%)
Toei Company (3.87%)
Tokyo
Fuji Television
Fuji Television Network, Inc.
- BS Fuji
- Fuji Television One
- Fuji Television Two
- Fuji Television Next
November 18, 1948
March 1, 1959
(digital) December 1, 2003
(analog) July 24, 2011
JOCX-TV (1959–2011)
Chūō (Central) Television, former provisional name
68 kW
Hachiōji, Tokyo
Analog: Channel 31
Tama, Tokyo
Analog: Channel 55
Chichi-jima, Ogasawara Islands
Analog: Channel 57
Haha-jima, Ogasawara Islands
Analog: Channel 58
Mito, Ibaraki
Analog: Channel 38
Digital: Channel 19
Hitachi, Ibaraki
Analog: Channel 58
Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Analog: Channel 57
Digital: Channel 35
Maebashi, Gunma
Analog: Channel 58
Digital: Channel 42
Chichibu, Saitama
Analog: Channel 29
Narita, Chiba
Analog: Channel 57
Tateyama, Chiba
Analog: Channel 58
Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 58
Yokosuka-Kurihama, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 37
Hiratsuka, Kanagawa
Analog: Channel 39
Digital: Channel 21
Kitadaitō, Okinawa
Analog: Channel 46
Analog: Channel 58
株式会社フジテレビジョン
Media
October 1, 2008, (to take over the broadcasting business of former Fuji TV (renamed "Fuji Media Holdings, Inc."))
4-8, Daiba Nichome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Masaki Miyauchi
(Chairman and CEO)
Osamu Kanemitsu
(President and COO)
Television broadcasting
Fuji Media Holdings
Fuji Television also operates three premium television stations, known as "Fuji Television One" ("Fuji Television 739"—sports/variety, including all Tokyo Yakult Swallows home games), "Fuji Television Two" ("Fuji Television 721"—drama/anime, including all Saitama Seibu Lions home games), and "Fuji Television Next" ("Fuji Television CSHD"—live premium shows) (called together as "Fuji Television OneTwoNext"), all available in high-definition.
Fuji Television is owned by Fuji Media Holdings, Inc.[c], a certified broadcasting holding company under the Japanese Broadcasting Act, and affiliated with the Fujisankei Communications Group. The current Fuji Television was established in October 2008. Fuji Media Holdings is the former Fuji Television founded in 1957.
In the early days of Fuji TV's broadcasting, its ratings have long been in the middle of all Tokyo stations. In the early 1980s, the ratings of Fuji TV rose sharply. In 1982, it won the "Triple Crown" in the ratings among the flagship stations for the first time, and produced many famous TV dramas (such as Gape Horn the Beast) and variety shows (Knee Gor Basement). In 1997, Fuji Television moved from Kawata-cho, Shinjuku District to Odaiba, the sub-center of Rinkai, Tokyo, which led to the development of the Odaiba area, which was almost empty at that time. After the 2010s, the ratings of Fuji TV dropped sharply, and now the household ratings rank fifth among all stations in Tokyo. But on the other hand, Fuji TV is also a TV station with more diversified operations in the Japanese TV industry and a higher proportion of income from departments outside the main business. In addition, Fuji TV is the first TV station in Japan to broadcast and produce locally-made animated series made specifically to be televised.
Offices[edit]
The headquarters are located at 2–4–8, Daiba, Minato, Tokyo.[2] The Kansai office is found at Aqua Dojima East, Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka. The Nagoya office is found at Telepia, Higashi-sakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya. The Japanese television station also has 12 bureau offices in other parts of the world in locations in countries such as France, Russia, United States, South Korea, China, Thailand and the UK.[3]
Former Fuji TV logo featuring the numeral 8, from 1959 to 1986
The "8 Mark" sculpture at the entrance of the FCG building
Fuji TV OB van with the eyeball logo colored in pink
The first logo of Fuji TV was designed by Yusaku Kamekura. Its design concept comes from the station's channel "8", commonly known as the "8 Mark" (8マーク). After Fuji TV adopted the "eyeball logo" (described later) as a trademark, the 8 logo did not completely withdraw from use. For example, there is a sculpture of the 8 logo at the entrance of the FCG building; the program logo of the variety show "Grand Slam of Performing Arts" also uses the 8 logo.
In April 1985, in order to strengthen the unity of the group, the chairman of Fujisankei Group Haruo Kanai decided to formulate a new group unified trademark. On May 2, 1985, among the nine candidate logos, Fujisankei Group decided to choose the "eyeball logo" (目玉マーク) designed by illustrator Masaru Yoshida as the group trademark. The logo was made directly using Liquitex pigments.[4] Beginning on April 1, 1986, the eyeball logo officially became the logo of the companies under the Fujisankei Group, including Fuji TV. Fuji Sankei Group also decided to adopt the font proposed by Yuji Baba as the trademark font of Fuji TV.[5]: 231 In order to increase the awareness of this logo, Fujisankei Group spent an equivalent of 4 billion yen in advertising costs and broadcast as many as 3,000 TV commercials.[5]: 213
Controversies[edit]
On August 7–21, 2011, more than 2,000 protesters from Japanese Culture Channel Sakura and other groups rallied in front of Fuji Television and Fuji Media Holdings' headquarters in Odaiba, Tokyo to demonstrate against what they perceived as the network's increased use of South Korean content, information manipulation and insulting treatment of Japanese people. Channel Sakura called Fuji Television the "Traitor Network" in these protests.[49][30][50]
Further on June 29, 2015, Fuji Television apologized for running subtitles during a show earlier in the month that inaccurately described South Koreans interviewed on the street as saying they "hate" Japan. The apology came after a successful online petition over the weekend, with people stating the major broadcaster had fabricated the subtitles to breed Anti-Korean sentiment amongst the Japanese public. Fuji Television explained that both interviewees indeed spoke of their dislike of Japan during the interviews, but it accidentally ran clips that did not contain that message. According to the broadcaster, "we aired these inaccurate clips because of a mix-up during the editing process as well as our failure to check the final footage sufficiently."[51][52]