TBS Television

JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as , is the Kantō region flagship station of the Japan News Network. It is owned-and-operated by , a subsidiary of TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''. TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to Ultraman and the Ultra Series franchise from 1966 – itself a spinoff to Ultra Q, co-produced and broadcast in the same year – and its spinoffs, most if not all made by Tsuburaya Productions for the network; in the 2010s, Ultra Series moved to TV Tokyo. Since the 1990s it is home to Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan, by itself a spinoff to the legendary TBS game show Kinniku Banzuke that lasted for 7 seasons. On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms (TV Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc., WOWOW, Dentsu and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners) officially announced that they would jointly establish a new company in July to offer paid online video services called Paravi. TBS Holdings would become the largest shareholder of the new company, Premium Platform Japan, with a 31.5% stake. An official from TBS Holdings, named Yasuhiro Takatsuna, became the new company's president. Overview Its predecessor, "Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd.", was established in 1951 as a general broadcaster. After that, on April 1, 1955 , it opened as the second privately broadcast TV station in Japan after Nippon Television , and at the same time became the only TV and radio station in Tokyo (spun off in 2001). At that time, Radio Tokyo succeeded in incorporating many local stations into JNN by promoting the elimination of the newspaper influence in forming the news network (JNN), establishing a powerful reporting system.