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All-Nippon News Network
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All-Nippon News Network (ANN; Japanese: オールニッポンニュース・ネットワーク, romanized: Ōrunippon Nyūsu Nettowāku) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TV Asahi Corporation (TV Asahi) in Tokyo, a subsidiary of the TV Asahi Holdings Corporation, which is controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. The network's responsibility includes the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and news exchange between the stations. Its affiliate stations also broadcast non-news programs originating from TV Asahi. Founded on 1 January 1970,[1]: 161–163 and formalised on 1 April 1974, ANN is made up of 26 affiliates, including two stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks.
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Between 1989 and 2013, it also operated the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel Asahi Newstar.
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Stations are listed mostly in Japanese order of prefectures which is mirrored in ISO 3166-2:JP, with exceptions for the Kantō region, Aichi-Gifu-Mie, Kansai region (except Mie) and Okayama-Kagawa, which form single wide broadcasting markets respectively.
Areas without an ANN station
Former affiliate stations
Single asterisk (*) indicates former primary affiliate
- Until September 30, 2003, abbreviated as ANB.
- Until July 31, 2006, abbreviated as NT21.
- Until September 30, 1993, using the name Shizuoka Kenmin TV.
- Until September 30, 1993, abbreviated as SKT.
- Until March 31, 1986, abbreviated as UHT.
- Secondary affiliation. Akita TV partially dropped its ANN affiliation (ANN news programs no longer aired) on 1 April 1987, to focus on airing more Fuji TV programmes.[5]: 22 Between 1 April 1987 and 30 September 1992, AKT and ABS shared on airing select TV Asahi programmes. AKT and ABS completely dropped its ANN affiliation when AAB started broadcasting on 1 October 1992.[6]: 18
- Primary affiliation between 1 January 1970 and 30 March 1975.[11]: 341–342 Swapped networks with ABC on 1 April 1975, because of ownership issues: all stations owned by (and linked to) The Asahi Shimbun were now required to become affiliates of TV Asahi.[11]: 345 As a result, MBS was now a JNN affiliate, and is still a significant producer for the network.
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Affiliates that initially wanted to join but later withdrew
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JapaNews24
Since at least 2018, ANN operates JapaNews24 (Japanese: 日本のニュースを24時間配信, romanized: Nihon no nyūsu o 24-jikan haishin), an around-the-clock online feed aimed mainly at Japanese people home and abroad, available on ANN's official YouTube channel.[20][21] JapaNews24 airs continuously news stories from ANN newscasts and programmes such as Hōdō Station, as well as content from sister service AbemaNews, on tape delay without a fixed schedule.[21][22]
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