Nippon Channel (YinYangia)

Nippon Channel (Japanese: 日本チャンネル; Nippon channeru; lit. Japan Channel), stylized as 日本, is a YinYangian free-to-air Japanese language television channel owned by YBC. It is the main competitor of NKTV.

It is the only YBC channel to still use the NTVC-format logo.

History
To compete with NKTV, TBC launched TBC Nippon in 1984, but was only available on satellite and cable, due to the rise of satellite and cable television in the Toralaq Republic. TBC wanted the channel to gain more ratings than NKTV, so they aired hit Japanese movies.

But the opposite of their expectation happened, when NKTV aired Super Sentai in 1985. TBC Nippon ended up as a market failure and was shut down in 1990 due to extremely low ratings.

Ten years later, on February 2000, NTVC relaunched their Japanese-language channel, under the name of Nippon Channel. This time, the channel managed to gain success.