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All-Nippon News Network

All-Nippon News Network (ANN; ) is a Japanese commercial television network run by TV Asahi Corporation (TV Asahi) in Tokyo, a subsidiary of the TV Asahi Holdings Corporation, which is controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. The network's responsibilities include the syndication of national television news bulletins to its regional affiliates, and the news exchange between the stations. Its affiliate stations also broadcast non-news programs originating from TV Asahi. Founded on 1 January 1970, and formalised on 1 April 1974, ANN is made up of 26 affiliates, including two stations that are double- or triple-affiliated with rival networks.

Between 1989 and 2013, it also operated the 24-hour satellite and cable news channel .

List of affiliates

Stations are listed mostly in the Japanese order of prefectures, which is mirrored in , with exceptions for the Kantō region, the Aichi-Gifu-Mie area, the Kansai region (except Mie) and the Okayama-Kagawa area, which each form single wide broadcasting markets respectively.

Areas without an ANN station

Former affiliate stations

Single asterisk (*) indicates former primary affiliate

Affiliates that initially wanted to join but later withdrew

JapaNews24

Since at least 2018, ANN operates JapaNews24 (), an around-the-clock online feed aimed mainly at Japanese people at home and abroad, available on ANN's official YouTube channel. JapaNews24 continuously airs news stories from ANN newscasts and programmes such as ', as well as content from the sister service AbemaNews, on tape delay and without a fixed schedule.

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