ABS N6

ABS N6 is an evening news bulletin broadcast at 6:00pm every weekday on the ABS Television Network.

History
ABS N6 was the Aso Broadcasting System's first original programme, and one of the programmes shown on the first day of ABS' broadcasting on October 1, 1987.

The first bulletin was hosted by Michael Kaeruyama, who then went on to host N6 bulletins until 2005. Many other newsreaders have since presented the programme.

High-definition was introduced to N6 in 2007.

A new studio within the ABS Broadcasting Center became ABS N6's main set in 2014.

Broadcasting
ABS N6 is broadcast nationwide at 6:00pm every weekday, across Kabushiki Gaisha ABS' network of owned-and-operated digital terrestrial television stations, via Broadcast Satellite (BS) on ABS Sat.1, on the ABS N24 cable/satellite channel and on the ABS International outside broadcasting service.

The O&Os also produce their own local bulletins (under the "ABS N-Local" umbrella). These local bulletins air immediately after ABS N6's main national newscast, and take the following names: CTS N-Chugoku was formerly known as ATH N-Chugoku, however, the closure of ABS Television Hiroshima ("ATH") and its relaunch as the Chugoku Television System lead to its renaming.
 * SBS N-Hokkaido: North
 * SBS N-Hokkaido: South
 * TAB N-Tohoku
 * HBS N-Kansai
 * CAT N-Chubu
 * STB N-Shikoku
 * KRB N-Kyushu
 * KRB N-Okinawa
 * CTS N-Chugoku

CAT does not air its N-Chubu bulletin in Yamanashi Prefecture. For its viewers in Yamanashi-ken, CAT instead simulcasts ABS' regular post-N6 programming.

As a result of the CAT issue, ABS itself (JOBX-DTV) does not have a local news programme.