Kansai Telecasting Corporation

Offices

• the headquarters – 1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
• Tokyo Branch Office – Jiji Tsushin Building, 15-8, Ginza Gochome, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
• Nagoya Branch Station – Telepia, 14-25, Higashi-Sakura Itchome, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan

  Advertising slogan

• April, 1975: Stay tune, Channel 8. and Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.
• 1994: Dash
• 1995 – March, 1997: Peechiku-Park Station
• April, 1997–March 29, 2015 : Kante-le
• March 30, 2015- present : More than, Kantele

  History of Kansai TV

• February 1, 1958 – Dai Kansai TV Company was founded.
• July 5, 1958 – Dai Kansai TV was renamed "Kansai Telecasting Corporation", and started analog terrestrial telecasting on November 22.
• 1959 – Kansai TV formed a TV network with Fuji TV, Tokai TV and Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting
• 1964 – The affiliated station of the network in Fukuoka changed to TV Nishinippon.
• 1966 – Fuji News Network was formed.
• 1970 – Fuji Network System was formed.
• 1982 – Kansai TV hosted the first Osaka Women's Marathon.
• 1992 – Kansai TV opened Lemon Studio in Tokyo.
• October 1, 1997 – Kansai TV moved the headquarters from Nishi-Temma, Kita-ku, Osaka to Ogimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka. While its old Nishi-Temma headquarters demolished in 2011 and now as car parking lot.
• December 1, 2003 – Kansai TV started digital terrestrial telecasting.
• July 24, 2011 – Analog terrestrial telecasting ended.
• March 30, 2015 – Kansai TV aborts its 51-year-old long-running abstract KTV-wordmark logo alongside its 8-symbol which ends their usage for the first time of 51 years since 1964, and by that, the station unifies its appellation as "Kantele " as it adopts a new logo which consists of a purple 8 on a purple shadow and it is beside to the grey Kantale, so for now, its new logo will be stylized as "8 kantele ".

  Broadcasting

Digital

• Virtual: 8
• Osaka – Channel 17

Analog

• as of the end of the broadcasting

• Osaka and cities along Osaka Bay – Channel 8

Programs (Times in JST)

News

Information

• Gokigen Lifestyle Ready, Go!
• Hapi-kuru!
• Niji Iro Jean
• Momoko no Oh! Sore! Miyo!
• Mr. Sunday – collaboration with Fuji TV

  Variety shows

• SMAP×SMAP – collaboration with Fuji TV
• Catherine → Catherine III
• Hiroiki Ariyoshi no Daretoku!?
• Takajin Mune Ippai
• Uramayo!
• Samma no Mamma
• R-1 Grand Prix
• Hakkutsu! Aru-aru Dai-Jiten → Hakkutsu! Aru-aru Dai-Jiten II
• Kaimono Seikatsu Nambo de Nambo?
• Gout Temps Series

  Dramas produced by Kansai TV

• 27 FNS stations　from 10 p.m. until 10:54 p.m. on Tuesdays
• Current: Fight! Bookstore Girls

Sports

• Professional Baseball Live
• Osaka International Ladies Marathon
• Keiba Beat
• Diamond Cup Golf

  Website