Television Nishinippon Corporation (株式会社テレビ西日本, Kabushiki Gaisha Terebi Nishinippon, TNC) is a Japanese TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) in Fukuoka.
[1]: 29 On October 22, 1957, Nishiippon Television received a preliminary license conditionally on the premise of "merging with Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting as much as possible".
[1]: 30–31 At the second founder meeting held on January 7, 1958, Nishinippon TV decided to build a signal transmitting station in Sarakura Mountain, Yawata City.
[1]: 109 On March 18, 1961, due to the breakdown of wage negotiations between labor and management, the TNC union launched a week-long strike.
During the station's first 53 years of broadcasting, JOHX-TV's analog signal was receivable over-the-air in most of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
[1]: 178 The following year, while West Nippon Television carried out a large-scale expansion of its Fukuoka headquarters, it also moved the company's registration headquarters and main control room and other important facilities from Yawata City to Fukuoka City.
[1]: 44–47 On November 13 of the same year, West Nippon Television began transmitting signals from Takamiya's headquarters.
In 1999, West Japan Television and South Korea's PSB Busan Broadcasting signed a cooperation agreement.
[1]: 321 Digital broadcasts on JOJY-TV began on 1 July 2006, and the analog signal continued to broadcast until 24 July 2011, when JOHX-TV (which served northern portions of Fukuoka Prefecture and western portions of Yamaguchi Prefecture) ceased operations.