# New Heisei station

In Japanese broadcasting, a new Heisei station (平成新局, Heisei shin kyoku) refers to a broadcast radio or television station founded in the Heisei era, particularly in its first decade (1989–1999). Currently, "long-established station" (老舗局) 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 (1 AM station + 1 FM station) policy, cooperating with flagship stations, newspaper companies (national and local newspapers), etc. established in various places, all on the FM band.
On October 1, 1989, TV Hokkaido (TVh), TV-U Yamagata (TUY), Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting (KAB) 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 (like most stations founded during the Showa era), 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 (due to poor maintenance of relay stations, it is very often excluded, so the frequency is small).

## 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.
* ☆ is available on radiko.
* ★ 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 | [note 11][note 12] [note 13][note 14] |
| 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 | |

### Television

| Area | Station | Abbreviation | Network | Opening date | Remarks |
| Hokkaido | TV Hokkaido | TVh | TXN | October 1, 1989 | |
| Aomori Prefecture | Aomori Asahi Broadcasting | ABA | ANN | October 1, 1991 | It was originally based in Hachinohe City. Around the time of digitization, it was moved and integrated into Aomori City, where the broadcasting center is currently located. |
| Iwate prefecture | Iwate Menkoi Television | mit | FNN・FNS | April 1, 1991 | |
| Iwate prefecture | Iwate Asahi Television | IAT | ANN | October 1, 1996 | |
| Akita | Akita Asahi Broadcasting | AAB | ANN | October 1, 1992 | |
| Yamagata prefecture | TV-U Yamagata | TUY | JNN | October 1, 1989 | |
| Yamagata prefecture | Sakuranbo Television Broadcasting | SAY | FNN・FNS | April 1, 1997 | |
| Tochigi Prefecture | Tochigi Television | GYT | JAITS | April 1, 1999 | The abbreviation is TTV. The opening of GYT is also the last independent station opening in the era of terrestrial analog broadcasting. |
| Tokyo | Tokyo MX | MX | JAITS | November 1, 1995 | |
| Toyama Prefecture | Tulip Television | TUT | JNN | October 1, 1990 | |
| Ishikawa Prefecture | TV Kanazawa | KTK | NNN・NNS | April 1, 1990 | |
| Ishikawa Prefecture | Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting | HAB | ANN | October 1, 1991 | |
| Nagano Prefecture | Nagano Asahi Broadcasting | abn | ANN | April 1, 1991 | |
| Yamaguchi Prefecture | Yamaguchi Asahi Broadcasting | yab | ANN | October 1, 1993 | |
| Ehime Prefecture | I-Television | ITV | JNN | October 1, 1992 | |
| Ehime Prefecture | Ehime Asahi Television | eat | ANN | April 1, 1995 | |
| Kochi Prefecture | Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting | KSS | FNN/FNS | April 1, 1997 | |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting | TVQ | TXN | April 1, 1991 | |
| Nagasaki prefecture | Nagasaki Cultural Telecasting | NCC | ANN | April 1, 1990 | |
| Nagasaki prefecture | Nagasaki International Television | NIB | NNN・NNS | April 1, 1991 | KTN moved entirely to FNN. |
| Kumamoto Prefecture | Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting | KAB | ANN | October 1, 1989 | |
| Oita Prefecture | Oita Asahi Broadcasting | OAB | ANN | October 1, 1993 | |
| Kagoshima Prefecture | Kagoshima Yomiuri Television | KYT | NNN・NNS | April 1, 1994 | |
| Okinawa Prefecture | Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting | QAB | ANN | October 1, 1995 | |

## 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 (NNN/NNS) and TBS series (JNN), which have many starting stations, and the Fuji TV series (FNN/FNS), which expanded its network with the issuance of a large number of UHF station licenses, the TV Asahi series (ANN) network Expansion was delayed. For this reason, Heisei new stations have the most ANN member stations (out of 24 stations, 11 stations are 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 (Hokkoku Shimbun, Nagasaki Shimbun, Okinawa Times, etc.).
Most of the Heisei new stations have not listed.