TV-U Fukushima

As of March 31, 2021: == Etymology ==

The name TV-U Fukushima came after a dispute in the bidding process. As described below, the license for the third UHF station was quickly taken by Fukushima Broadcasting, affiliated to TV Asahi and with capital from it and the Asahi Shimbun. However, the station was initially licensed as Fukushima Asahi Broadcasting. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications ruled out the inclusion of "Asahi" in the station's name, causing a dispute with the TBS plan, where the station was set to be named Fukushima Broadcasting. Ultimately, without the name Asahi attached to the ANN station, it claimed the planned name of the TBS station as theirs, prompting the new station to find a new name. == History ==

TV-U Fukushima's origins lie down in the creation of Fukushima Television twenty years earlier. Due to problems merging the candidates for the station's license, FTV ended up joining the four commercial television networks of Japan in an independent manner (NTV, TBS, Fuji TV and NET). Later, with the launch of Fukushima Central Television on UHF in 1970, FTV decided to join the Fuji News Network and the Japan News Network, while FCT joined the Nippon News Network. Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, MIC posponed the analog shutdown date in the heavily affected prefectures (Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima), as such, its analog signal was switched off on March 31, 2012. ==Programming==

The station's first eneing news program was Wide U Fukushima (ワイドユー福島), which aired in the 6-6:30pm timeslot on weeknights at launch. In 1984, TUF produced its first music program, Sound Peach (サウンドビーチ) and the daily program Hello From the Corner (街角からのこんにちは). Fukushima SHOW (ふくしまSHOW) is the station's only large-scale evening entertainment program. ==References==