TV Asahi

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TV Asahi Holdings Corporation is a Japanese media company based in Tokyo. Its main asset is TV Asahi, the flagship TV station of the All-Nippon News Network (ANN). The station, branded simply as TV Asahi, broadcasts in the Tokyo area and beyond, with its digital channel on 5. The company also runs other channels and related businesses through its subsidiaries.

The company has a long history. It started in 1957 as Tokyo Educational Television (NET), an education-focused broadcaster. It later became Nippon Educational Television, then Asahi National Broadcasting, and finally TV Asahi Corporation. In 2014 it reorganized as TV Asahi Holdings, with TV Asahi Corporation taking over the broadcasting operations. Over the years, TV Asahi helped grow the tokusatsu and anime genres and built a strong national network.

TV Asahi is owned and managed as a public company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Asahi Shimbun Company is its main shareholder, along with other investors. The organization is led by chairman and CEO Hiroshi Hayakawa and president Hiroshi Shinozuka.

In recent years, TV Asahi has expanded its reach beyond traditional broadcasting. It formed international partnerships, launched its own online presence with the TVer streaming platform in 2022, and continued to develop its brands and programming with various subsidiaries and projects. The broadcaster is known for its distinctive branding, low-key logo, and a mascot named Go-chan introduced in 2011.