The Headquarters are located at 14-27, Higashi-Sakura Itchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
[1]: 27 On December 1 of the same year, New Tokai TV set up an office in the New Nagoya Building, and began preparations for broadcasting.
[1]: 20 On January 20, 1958, the headquarters were established in Higashishincho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya City, and on February 17 the name was changed to Tokai Television, referred to in short as THK.
[1]: 49 Four years later, self-produced programs were produced in color, the first being Kazuo Hasegawa's Masterpiece Series.
[1]: 51 In 1967, as part of the local business contribution, Tokai Television donated a fountain to Nagoya City, which was set up in Sakae Park.
[1]: 146 In 1987, Tokai TV's pre-tax profit exceeded 20 billion yen,[1]: 130 and they aired the 30th anniversary documentary Big White Night Journey to the Extreme North of the Soviet Union, broadcast throughout Japan.
[1]: 160 Its thirdseason[clarify] in 1991 achieved an audience rating of 29.7% in Nagoya, and won the Excellent Award of the Democratic Federation of Freedom of the Year.
[1]: 160 On the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast, the Tokai TV Festival was held for two days on November 21 and 22 1998, attracting more than 34,000 people.
[1]: 180 During the 2005 Aichi World Expo, Tokai TV set up an exhibition hall (Yumemiruyama/梦みる山) with Chunichi Shimbun, Central Nippon Broadcasting, and other companies to showcase the latest imaging[clarify] technology.
[1]: 60–61 When the Hidagawa bus crashed in 1968, Tokai TV broadcast the accident report at 7:45 in the morning, and was commended by Fuji News Network.
[1]: 79 During the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 124 in 1974, THK broadcast a special program that lasted more than seven hours, significantly longer than other private TV stations.
[1]: 101 When Emperor Showa passed away in 1989, Tokai TV aired a special program that lasted 42 hours and 2 minutes.
[1]: 134 When China Airlines Flight 140 crashed in 1994, Tokai TV was able to report the news quickly because it had a live weather video camera at Nagoya Airport.
[1]: 48 The fifth episode of the noon series The Worry of This World set a record with an average audience rating of 20% in Nagoya area;[1]: 53 the average audience rating of the tenth episode The Sun of Love even exceeded 30%.
[1]: 55 In order to facilitate the appearance of heavyweight[clarify] actors, the series was re-produced in Tokyo in 1969.
The noon series No Ambition, which began broadcasting in October the same year, had an average audience rating of 15.3% in Nagoya.
[1]: 125 Koharu in 1996 took place in a hot spring hotel in Ishikawa Prefecture, and it was a popular series that produced as many as six parts.
[clarify][1]: 152 In 2002, Tokai TV adapted Kikuchi Kan's famous novel Mrs. Pearl into a midday series, which caused a social phenomenon.
However, due to changes in the audience's living habits, Tokai TV's noon series aired the last work Lam's Tears~We Have Tomorrow~ in March 2016.
[needs update][1]: 178 In 1961, Tokai TV produced the housewife's information program Hello, Madam (Ou-様こんにちは) for the first time, broadcast from Monday to Friday.
Tokai TV broadcasts the strip information program Switch in the morning period from Monday to Friday, and Mr.
Suddenly, the announcement screen for the winner of the Love Rice at First Sight Produced in Iwate Prefecture appeared, having nothing to do with the contents of the show.
Because this incident happened about five months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident and cesium is a radioactive pollutant, it caused a public outcry.
[4] After the incident, Tokai TV received a large number of calls and emails from viewers to protest.
[5] The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Union issued a serious warning in writing to Tokai TV for this incident.
[clarify] Then president Shuo Asano also publicly apologized on TV and to the Iwate Prefectural Government.
Tokai TV also set up a countermeasure headquarters to comprehensively verify the cause of the accident and prevent similar incidents from happening again.
On August 30, Tokai TV broadcast a one-hour report, explaining the cause of the incident, and apologized to the audience and agricultural workers in Iwate Prefecture.
After the incident, Tokai Television also established a regeneration committee to rebuild broadcasting ethics and launch activities to support the Tohoku region.