New Tokushima Broadcasting

New Tokushima Broadcasting (ニュー徳島放送) was a proposed television station in Tokushima Prefecture. The station was supposed to use the JOTI-TV calls and broadcast on UHF channel 40. The coverage area was also supposed to include part of Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture.

History

New Tokushima Broadcasting announced on November 18, 1969, that its callsign was going to be JOTI-TV (later obtained by Kagoshima Broadcasting in 1982) and its frequency was UHF channel 40 (later used by the Tokushima station of NHK E). Preparations for its establishment were hampered due to an incident involving a member of the operating organization (it is said that the plan to open the channel was scrapped). The deadline for establishing a company to obtain this license was not met in time, and in the end, the license expired on May 1, 1970, and the station was not opened.

After that, there were moves to open a second commercial television station in Tokushima Prefecture, but due to spillover, especially along the coast, it was difficult to receive TV stations in the Kinki area and other areas headquartered in Osaka City, so the station was opened in 1959. A second commercial television station has not opened since Shikoku Broadcasting, and the frequency allocated to Tokushima Prefecture was canceled in May 1997, partly due to the promotion of digital terrestrial television broadcasting. Additionally, since there is a possibility that there may be an increase in the number of areas where it is difficult to view digital terrestrial TV broadcasts, the prefecture has set up reception bases for cable TV (some cable TV stations have started retransmitting some stations).

JNN, ANN, and FNN, which currently have no affiliate stations in Tokushima Prefecture, are in charge of coverage of news coverage in the prefecture, respectively, by quasi-key stations in Osaka (Mainichi Broadcasting, Asahi Broadcasting Television, Kansai Television).