New Heisei station

In Japanese broadcasting, a new Heisei station refers to a broadcast radio or television station founded in the Heisei era, particularly in its first decade. Currently, "long-established station" is used as an antonym.

Overview

The new television stations established in this period, all on the UHF band, corresponded to a "government plan for prefectures across Japan to have a limit of four commercial television stations", and for radio, a two-frequency policy, cooperating with flagship stations, newspaper companies, etc. established in various places, all on the FM band.
On October 1, 1989, TV Hokkaido, TV-U Yamagata, Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting were the first TV stations to open in the era, this sequence continued until Tochigi Television opened on April 1, 1999. At that time, there were few complete affiliates of the ANN, many stations were opened as its affiliates. On radio, this corresponds to the period after the start of FM Yamagata on April 1, 1989.
Community broadcasting was massified during the Heisei era, and it falls into the category of the new Heisei station from the time of FM doruka, which was opened as the first station.
The concept basically does not have a dual-affiliate setup, but many of the areas where such stations opened do not have a TV Tokyo affiliate, instead resorting to program sales. However, like the long-established stations, the sponsor part has been replaced with a spot. In addition, some stations sell and purchase programs other than TV Tokyo.

List of stations

Radio

Most of the stations were allocated radio waves all at once in the late Showa era, and the meaning is different from the new Heisei TV stations, but here I listed the stations that opened after the beginning of the Heisei era. All AM stations finished starting by 1963.

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★ is a station that was broadcasting nationwide until March 31, 2012, with radiko.jp's recovery support project.

Area	Name	Nickname	Network	Opening date	Remarks
Hokkaido	FM North Wave☆	NORTH WAVE	JFL	August 1, 1993
Yamagata Prefecture	FM Yamagata☆	Rhythm Station	JFN	April 1, 1989
Fukushima Prefecture	FM Fukushima☆★	Fukushima FM	JFN	October 1, 1995
Tochigi Prefecture	FM Tochigi☆	RADIO BERRY	JFN	April 1, 1994
Chiba Prefecture	Bay FM☆	bayfm	Independent station	October 1, 1989
Tokyo	InterFM897☆	interfm	MegaNet →JFN	April 1, 1996
Niigata Prefecture	Niigata Kenmin FM Broadcasting☆	FM Port	Independent station	December 20, 2000	Closed on June 30, 2020].
Ishikawa Prefecture	FM Ishikawa☆	HELLO FIVE	JFN		-
Gifu Prefecture	FM Gifu☆	FM GIFU	JFN	April 1, 2001
Aichi Prefecture	ZIP-FM☆	ZIP-FM	JFL	October 1, 1993
Aichi Prefecture	Aichi International Broadcasting	RADIO-i	MegaNet	April 1, 2000	Closed on September 30, 2010.
Aichi Prefecture	Radio NEO☆	Radio NEO	MegaNet	April 1, 2014	.
Shiga Prefecture	FM Shiga☆	e-radio	JFN	December 1, 1996
Kyoto	FM Kyoto☆	α-STATION	Independent station	July 1, 1991
Osaka Prefecture	FM802☆	FM802	JFL	June 1, 1989
Osaka Prefecture	FM802☆	FM COCOLO	MegaNet	October 1, 1995
Hyogo Prefecture	Hyogo FM Broadcasting☆	Kiss FM KOBE	JFN	October 1, 1990
Okayama Prefecture	Okayama FM Broadcasting☆	FM Okayama	JFN	April 1, 1999
Tokushima Prefecture	FM Tokushima☆	FM Tokushima	JFN	April 1, 1992
Kochi Prefecture	FM Kochi☆	Hi-Six	JFN	April 1, 1992
Fukuoka Prefecture	Cross FM☆	CROSS FM	JFL	September 1, 1993
Fukuoka Prefecture	Love FM International Broadcasting☆	LOVE FM	MegaNet	April 1, 1997
Saga Prefecture	FM Saga☆	FMS	JFN	April 1, 1992	It opened as an independent station, but later joined JFN in 1991. It was the second JFN-affiliated station to open.
Oita Prefecture	FM Oita☆	Air Radio FM88	JFN		-
Kagoshima prefecture	FM Kagoshima☆	μFM	JFN	October 1, 1992

Main features

Shortly after its establishment, the bubble economy collapsed, and it was affected by the Heisei recession and the lost decade that came after. After that, in addition to the recession, there were circumstances unique to the industry, such as construction work to support digital terrestrial broadcasting and a shift away from television. Many stations are small.
Also, in the analog era, there were few relay stations Many broadcasting stations do not include all households in broadcast area. For this reason, in areas where direct reception is impossible, install a high-gain antenna in a higher position, rebroadcast cable TV, or even receive it at existing stations in surrounding prefectures. Even in the new Heisei station, there are special circumstances due to geographical relationships.
Furthermore, for the above reasons, the scale of the company itself is small, and it tends to have weaker program production and sales capabilities than the TV and radio stations that have opened earlier. In addition, the stations that opened in the latter half of the 1990s were affected by the Heisei recession and were established in a smaller and more compact manner.

Low number of employees
Headquarters building is small or simple
There are few branch offices and branch office networks

and other features. As for ITV, for a while the master was placed at an affiliated station outside the prefecture.
In contrast to the Nippon TV series and TBS series, which have many starting stations, and the Fuji TV series, which expanded its network with the issuance of a large number of UHF station licenses, the TV Asahi series network Expansion was delayed. For this reason, Heisei new stations have the most ANN member stations. Of the 24 Fullnet stations, half joined the Heisei period.
In addition, in contrast to the long-established stations led by local newspaper companies, most of the Heisei new stations' major shareholders have key stations and major affiliated stations in the top three. In addition, there are few other affiliated programs on the net, and the proportion of in-house produced programs is also small.
Although the number is small, there are newspaper companies that are closely related to the Heisei Shinkyoku.
Most of the Heisei new stations have not listed.