Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Headquarters in Osaka Business Park
Trade name	ytv
Native name	讀賣テレビ放送株式会社
Romanized name	Yomiuri Terebi Hōsō kabushiki gaisha
Company type	Private KK
Industry	Media
Founded	Higashi-Temma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan (13 February 1958; 66 years ago (1958-02-13), as "New Osaka Television Co.")
Headquarters	Osaka Business Park, Shiromi, Chūō-ku, Osaka , Japan
Number of locations	8 (5 in Japan, 1 in Paris, New York and Shanghai)
Area served	Kansai region, Japan
Key people	Yoshmitsu Ohashi (President)
Services	Television broadcasting
Owner	The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings (20.56%) Nippon Television Holdings, Inc. (15.89%)
Subsidiaries	Yomiuri TV Enterprise Ltd Yomiuri TV Service, Inc. ytv Nextry Co., Ltd. ADEC Co., Ltd. Sentens Co., Ltd. Digital Wave Corporation
Website	www.ytv.co.jp/corp/info/company/english/

JOIX-DTV (channel 10), branded as Yomiuri TV (読売テレビ, Yomiuri Terebi, YTV (stylized as ytv°)), is the Kansai region flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned by the Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (讀賣テレビ放送株式会社, Yomiuri Terebi Hōsō kabushiki gaisha) subsidiary of the eponymous Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate; Yomiuri TV forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongside Kantō region flagship Nippon Television, which owns a 15.89% share in the company. Founded as New Osaka Television Co.^[1] on February 13, 1958, and renamed Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation on August 1, the station started broadcasting on August 28 as the first TV station to be affiliated with Nippon Television Network Corporation. Its studios are located in the Osaka Business Park district of Osaka.