Fukui Culture Television
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Fukui Culture Television (Japanese: 福井文化テレビジョン, Hepburn: Fukui Bunka Terebijon) was a proposed television channel which was set to become the third commercial television station in Fukui Prefecture.
On October 16, 1992, the Radio Regulatory Council submitted a report to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications regarding changes to the Basic Broadcasting Promotion Plan to open a third station in Fukui Prefecture (same day as the granting of a third station in Kochi Prefecture and a third and fourth station in Ehime Prefecture).[1] On December 18, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) assigned a third frequency, UHF channel 23, to Fukui Prefecture.[2][3][4]
The background behind the assignment of the third station to Fukui Prefecture is that in the early 1990s, Ishikawa Prefecture's TV Kanazawa (opened on April 1, 1990), Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting (opened on October 1, 1991), and Toyama's Tulip TV (opened on October 1, 1990, then TV U Toyama) opened successively.[2] Furthermore, before the opening of Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting, the then director of the Hokuriku Telecommunications Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently the Hokuriku General Communications Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) said in Ishikawa Prefecture, "We would like to promote multicasting in Fukui Prefecture as well".[2]