Miyazaki Telecasting Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: UMK, Japanese name: 株式会社テレビ宮崎) is a Japanese TV station in Miyazaki. Currently branded as TV Miyazaki (テレビ宮崎), it is affiliated with NNN/NNS, FNN/FNS, and ANN.
This is the only TV station in Japan that has joined three TV networks at the same time.
History
First logo used from 1970 to 2020
On July 16, 1968, the Ministry of Posts (currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) announced its second UHF TV allocation plan, releasing 14 station licenses in 14 areas, including the Miyazaki Prefecture.[1]: 38 12 of the 14 licenses were then merged into one by request from the prefectural government of Miyazaki.[1]: 38 On February of the following year, the owners of the 12 licenses agreed into one company to apply of a TV license and were granted a reserved license by the following month.[1]: 40
On March 1, 1970, TV Miyazaki (tentative legal name prior to its launch) started trial broadcasts.[1]: 42 And by April 1, 1970, TV Miyazaki official started broadcasting.[2] In 1971, TV Miyazaki set up 7 relay stations alongside Miyazaki Broadcasting[1]: 44 In 1973, it started broadcasting in color.[1]: 48 TV Miyazaki introduced its color OB van in 1979, and was first used in the 34th National Sports Congress held in Miyazaki.[1]: 61
In 1980, TV Miyazaki completed its sports studio, a first for Japanese TV broadcasting.[1]: 62 TV Miyazaki also started hosting large-scale events, with the NASA Space Science Fair in 1982 as its first event.[1]: 67 FM Miyazaki (currently branded as JOY FM) was established by TV Miyazaki and started in 1984.[1]: 71 During Japan's bubble economy, TV Miyazaki began promoting business diversification, and started to enter the real estate business.[1]: 79 In 1991, they also invested in the establishment of the golf course, UMK Country Club.[1]: 85 In March 2000, they invested in building their new headquarters in preparation for digital broadcasting[1]: 115 which was later completed in August of the following year[1]: 120 and formally used in February 2002.[1]: 251
On December 1, 2006, digital broadcasting has started and ceased analog transmissions on July 24, 2011.[2] In 2020, TV Miyazaki has unveiled its current logo, in time for its 50th anniversary.[3]
Since its inception until 1973, TV Miyazaki hasn't been officially part in any network. At that time, it aired 60% of Fuji TV programming and 20% of programming each for Nippon TV and TV Asahi.[1]: 42 In April 1973, TV Miyazaki became an FNN/FNS affiliate.[2][1]: 48 Then in April 1976, they also joined ANN as its secondary affiliate (but not ANN's general programming).[1]: 54 And by April 1979, they finally joined NNN as its tertiary affiliate (like ANN, TV Miyazaki is not part of NNS, despite participating in the 24 Hour TV charity and airing select variety programs from Nippon TV).[1]: 60
Currently, the news provider (on all days) every morning and primetime (alongside their local news program UMK Super News) comes from FNN, the lunch news bulletin comes from ANN, and the late night news comes from NNN.[4]
Their primetime schedule is also a mix of programs mostly from Nippon TV and Fuji TV, which also leaves no simulcast slots for TV Asahi programming.[4]
Current TV Miyazaki primetime programming layout (since January 2021)[4]
Because some programs (mainly TV Asahi programming on all days and certain Nippon TV & Fuji TV programming on specific days) are not simulcasted by the broadcaster, there are currently two ways to watch them:
