Nansei Broadcasting

Nansei Broadcasting (南西放送株式会社, Nansei Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha) was established in July 1989 with the aim of operating a broadcasting business targeting Okinawa Prefecture with the aim of setting up a Nippon Television (NNN/NNS) affiliate in the prefecture.

10 influential local companies (Ryukyu Bank, Okinawa Bank, Okinawa Kaiho Bank, Okinawa Electric Power, Ryukyu Oil (now Ryuseki), Kanehide Headquarters, Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Cooperative Central Association (now JA Okinawa), Ryukyu Bus (now Ryukyu Bus Transportation), Okinawa Sugar Manufacturing, Shiroishi) were invested by Fuji Television (former corporation, now Fuji Media Holdings) and others.

Overview
Currently, there are four commercial television networks in Japan, excluding TV Tokyo (TXN), which is a metropolitan commercial network. Initially, in Okinawa Prefecture, where there were only two commercial stations on the VHF band, there was the aim to open two UHF stations independently or simultaneously in the first half of the 1990s (spring 1993), but later TV Asahi (ANN) affiliate Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting QAB would eventually start in the fall of 1995. It became a situation where the simultaneous opening of the two stations failed. However, due to the freezing of NTV's plan to expand into Okinawa, the plan came to a standstill, and the application for a broadcasting license was also withdrawn Later, Nansei Broadcasting went bankrupt.