The Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation (朝日放送グループホールディングス株式会社, Asahi Hōsō Gurūpu Hōrudingusu kabushiki gaisha, ABC) is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

[2] The new Asahi Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka on March 15, 1951, with Mitsujirō Ishii appointed as its first president.

On March 19, 2016, ABC started broadcasting over the Wide FM band, alongside OBC and MBS.

On December 3, 1955, Osaka TV Broadcasting obtained the preparatory license; the call sign is JOBX-TV.

At 9:30am on December 1, 1956, OTV officially started broadcasting, becoming the first private TV station in Kansai.

In the same year, Osaka TV also achieved Japan's first live broadcast from the top of Mount Fuji.

In January 1957, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a new basic policy for the VHF band in Japan at the same time as OTV, and the metropolitan areas outside Tokyo were allocated more TV channels.