Nippon TV

Nippon TV (日本テレビ, Nihonterebi) is a Japanese television network.

History
Nippon Television Network Corporation was established in 1952 and began to broadcast in 1953, making it the first commercial television broadcaster in Japan. In 1969 the founder of Nippon, Matsutaro Shoriki died at age 84. With it's founder gone Nippon TV still went on and in it's lifetime has broadcasted a wide variety of shows, even forming it's own news network. In 2003 it's internal network name is changed to just Nippon Television and in 2014 it was changed for the last time, to Nippon TV.

Nippon is known for broadcasting a wide variety of shows, and it even co-produced a live-action tokusatsu television show with Toho in 1972 titled Totsugeki! Hyuman