Fuji TV

Fuji Television Network, Inc., commonly known as Fuji TV, is a Japanese commercial broadcaster headquartered in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo. It began broadcasting on March 1, 1959, and became the flagship of Fuji News Network, FNN, founded in 1966. The company emerged from a 1957 broadcasting licence awarded to a group that included Nippon Cultural Broadcasting and Nippon Broadcasting System; those radio affiliates remain historically important within the wider Fujisankei Communications Group. Fuji TV's call sign is JOCX-DTV, and its digital terrestrial service serves the Kantō region.

Originally based in Kawadacho, Shinjuku, Fuji TV moved its main operations to its present waterfront headquarters in 1997. The distinctive Fuji Television Building, designed by architect Kenzo Tange, is recognizable for its large spherical observation structure, known as Hachitama, near its upper floors. The building has become a Daiba landmark and a frequent site for public events, studio tours, and programme promotions.

As Tokyo's FNN flagship station, Fuji TV supplies news programming and participates in network newsgathering with FNN affiliates across Japan. Its associated Fuji Network System, or FNS, is used for the broader network of commercial television stations that carry shared programmes. Fuji TV's schedule has long mixed news, drama, sport, animation, and entertainment. Its drama successes include Tokyo Love Story, first broadcast in 1991, and Long Vacation, which aired in 1996 starring Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi. The broadcaster also carried the influential cooking competition Iron Chef from 1993 to 1999.

Animation is especially central to Fuji TV's identity. It aired Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy in 1963, a landmark television anime series, and has broadcast Sazae-san since 1969. Guinness World Records has recognized Sazae-san as the longest-running animated television series. Fuji TV has also been the Japanese television home of One Piece since 1999, making its Sunday morning animation slot a major part of the franchise's broadcast history. Beyond programming, Fuji TV is a core company of the Fujisankei Communications Group, whose media holdings include newspapers, radio, and publishing interests. Its operations have therefore linked television production with a larger Japanese media organization.

In 2008 Fuji Television Network became a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings, a certified broadcasting holding company listed in Tokyo. The restructuring placed Fuji TV within a holding-company framework while preserving its role as the group's principal terrestrial television broadcaster. Its Daiba studios remain closely associated with large-scale network entertainment and nationally broadcast programming for Japanese audiences nationwide today.