TV Aichi

After concluding its restructuring plan, TV Tokyo began building its own national network, starting with TV Osaka on March 1, 1982.^[4]: 116 Later, TV Tokyo and its main shareholder Nikkei announced plans to open a station in Nagoya and invited Chunichi Shimbun to take part in its creation.^[4]: 116 In November 1981, Nikkei solicited the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for the opening of a new television station in Aichi Prefecture.^[4]: 116 By late February 1982, 105 companies have expressed interest in the bid.^[4]: 116 MPT suggested a meeting with the then-governor of Aichi Mikine Kuwahara and the then-president of Tokai Bank Shigemitsu Miyake to present a merger of their bids. On July 6, the companies that were attracted by the bid merged to form TV Aichi and requested a license, obtaining a preliminary license on July 13.^{[4]: 116–117} On September 6, TVA held its founders' meeting, followed by a founders' general assembly on December 1.^{[4]: 116–117} Construction work for its headquarters began on August 26, 1982, the Nikkei Nagoya Broadcasting Hall. On August 2, 1983, the station moved there in order to begin its activities.^[4]: 119 TVA chose the work of designer Shigeo Okamoto for its logo (still in use) and was also in charge of the station's sign-on and sign-off animations (withdrawn when the analog signals shut down in 2011).^{[4]: 120–121} It became the second UHF station in Nagoya, after Chukyo TV, which started fourteen years earlier.^[4]: 121

On September 1, 1983, at 5:59am, TV Aichi started broadcasting, the fifth commercial TV station in Nagoya and the hundredth commercial TV station to be set up at a national scale.^[4]: 116 The first program seen was the Japanese dance Kiyomoto: Dance of the Two Seasons.^[4]: 126 The station recorded a prime time share of 9.1% on opening night.^[4]: 131 In the fourth quarter of the year, the station recorded a 5% share during prime time (7-10pm), 4.5% during golden time (7-11pm) and a full-day average of 2%. During the first quarter of 1985, these figures rose to 6.8%, 6% and 2.9% respectively.^[4]: 135 TVA obtained a profit of 12 million yen in 1985, the first time since launch.^[4]: 138 In 1988, prime time ratings obtained a 7.6% share, golden time obtained 6.7% and all-day, a 3.2% average.^{[4]: 138–139} That year, it liquidated its accumulated losses.^[4]: 139 In 1990, it started issuing stock dividends.^[4]: 140

TVA recorded an average growth rate higher than 10% in revenue and profits during the 1990s, at a rate higher than the four other TV stations in Nagoya.^[4]: 22 Revenue jumped from 42nd place in 1992 to 24th place in 1997 among all of the commercial television stations.^[4]: 23 In 1996, its revenue reached 10,846 billion yen, surpassing the 10 billion yen mark for the first time; its profit hit 1,324 billion yen, also a new record.^[4]: 84 In 1998, revenue rose to 11,224 billion yen and its profit was 1,285 billion yen.^[4]: 22 The good financial results also led in improvements to its programming and ratings throughout the 90s.^{[4]: 42–43} In 1997, prime time ratings recorded 8.7% share, golden time 7.9% and all-day 4.0% average. Although the evening metrics were the second-highest in its history, the all-day average was an all-time record.^[4]: 108 On December 14, 1997, TVA had obtained the highest ratings average for an entire day for 100 weeks straight, a record for TXN's stations.^[4]: 24 The amount of in-house productions increased to 11% in 1998, up from just 7% in 1993.^[4]: 26

On December 1, 2003, TVA started digital terrestrial television broadcasts, using LCN 10 instead of the standard TXN LCN 7.^[5] On July 24, 2011, its analog signal shut down.^[6] The station celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2018, doing promotional actions throughout the year and a five-hour special program on September 1.^[7] In 2020, it joined the Locipo VOD service alongside Tokai TV, CBC and Chukyo TV.^[8][9]

At launch, it used the slogans "Channel 25 for Love and Intelligence" and "TV Aichi for a Smiling Family" to promote itself. Its programming initially consisted largely of local news, lifestyle programs, business programs and women's interest programs.^[4]: 118 The goal was to set up 10% of its programming to be locally-made.^[4]: 123 The first news program was TVA Hot Report (TVAホットレポート), which aired on weekdays at 5pm.^{[4]: 127–128} It was replaced in 1991 with TV Aichi News at 5 O'Clock (5時ですテレビ愛知ニュース). It recorded a share of 3.8% in 1996.^[4]: 91 The station changed its airtime for local news in 1997 and replaced it with News Sunset Ichiban (ニュース夕方いちばん), now starting at 5:25pm.^[4]: 107 That year, it also aired the moment when Nagoya was selected as the host city of a specialized expo in 2005.^{[4]: 101–102} Since 2020, the evening news program is 5 O'Clock Studio (5時スタ).^[10] Data Analysis| Sunday Journal (データで解析!サンデージャーナル) airs on Sunday afternoons and collects data from the largest cities of Japan.^[11]。

In its early years, the channel aired TV Culture Housewife DO! (TVカルチャー奥さまDO！), a program aimed at women, as well as Minomonta no Shukan Desuyo (みのもんたの時間ですよー), on Saturday afternoons, and economic programs such as Tokai no Gunzoku.^{[4]: 128–129} It also produced historical dramas such as Mori Runmaru and Nagoya Castle for Women.^{[4]: 60–61} Recent non-news programming includes Nogizaka Construction, a late night show on Fridays, since 2015.^[12] Since 1998, it airs a music show, Kuro Channel (黒ちゃんねる).^[13][14] Kusuguru (くすぐる) is a local information program airing on Saturday mornings.^[15]。

TVA airs Nippon Professional Baseball. Ratings for its games in 1993 attracted an average share of 16,4%.^[4]: 54 That year, it started airing J-League attracting an average share of 11,2%, but fell to 6,9% in the following year.^[4]: 54 In 1996, TVA aired golf and NASCAR for the first time.^[4]: 88In 1998, it bgan producing Doragura (どらぐら) with the latest news from the Chunichi Dragons and the Nagoya Grampus Eights.^[4]: 72

TVA is also in charge of TXN's 8am Saturday morning anime slot. In 2020, the anime was Cardfight!! Vanguard.^[16]