Okinawa Television

History

• December 25, 1955: Okinawa TV were established, and had first started its beta operations upon its early birth.
• July 16, 1956: The station receives its application for its TV broadcasting license and are therefore starting its demo emissions.
• May 12, 1958: Its company were registered, as the broadcaster begins its test transmissions.
• November 1, 1959: Okinawa TV adopts its first logo, as the network gets into on-air and commences its official broadcasts, although it were set up as Okinawa Prefecture's first broadcaster. The initial calls were KSDW-TV, on channel 10.
• May 5, 1968: Color transmissions begin.
• May 15, 1972: When the United States returned Okinawa back to Japan, the station moved to channel 8, prompting it to change callsigns to JOOF-TV. It also adopted Japanese broadcasting standards: the Japanese variant of NTSC and the new frequency.
• December 1, 2006: Digital terrestrial television and 1seg transmissions started from their Naha main station.
• July 24, 2011: Analog transmissions end.

  Stations

Analog

• Naha JOOF-TV 8ch 5 kW
• Izena-West 50ch 0.1w
• Izena-East 58ch 0.1w
• Kumejima 57ch 30w
• Kumejima-East 61ch 1w
• Hedona 55ch 0.1w
• Nakijin 32ch 300w
• Motobu 58ch 0.1w
• Untembaru 60ch 0.1w
• Goga 59ch 0.1w
• Agarie 50ch 1w
• Sukuta 60ch 0.1w
• Henoko 58ch 0.1w
• Onna 37ch 3w
• Ishikawa 56ch 3w
• Gushikawa 52ch 10w
• Goya 20ch 10w
• Takaharu 49ch 0.1w
• Kita-Nakagusuku 57ch 0.1w
• Ginowan 37ch 10w
• Aja 52ch 0.1w
• Shuri-Yamagawa 47ch 0.1w
• Shuri 57ch 3w
• Sashiki 56ch 30w
• Shikiya 58ch 0.1w

  Digital(ID:8)

• Naha JOOF-DTV 15ch

  Programs

• OTV Prime News - from 16:55 until 18:55 on Weekdays
• Kyōdo Gekijō - from 15:00 until 15:55 on Thursdays
• Kurashi to Keizai - from 16:50 until 16:55 on Fridays

  Rival Stations

• Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation
• Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting

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