Chugoku Television System

The Chugoku Television System (JOHX-DTV, 中国テレビシステム) is a television network serving the Chugoku region of Japan, encompassing the Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori, Yamaguchi and Okayama prefectures.

The network is a member of the All-Nippon News Network (ANN) and the ABS Television Network (ATN).

History
On the 20th of June, 2015, ABS Television Hiroshima shut down permanently, leaving the Chugoku region of Japan without its own ABS affiliate for the first time since 1992. The next day, ATH's transmitters were powered up once again, but this time their broadcasts were simply being simulcast from JOBX-DTV Channel 7 from Tokyo (the Aso Broadcasting System's flagship station for the Kanto region). ABS described this action as the establishment of a "transitional service" that would temporarily serve Chugoku whilst plans were drawn up for a new ABS affiliate for the region. These plans would eventually give birth to CTS, officially known as the Chugoku Broadcasting System.

Shortly in the period before pre-launch, the Hyogo Broadcasting System (ABS' companion station for the Kansai area) announced that it had given the to-be-founded network a "supportive" donation of around ￥500,000,000.

Hiroshima Home Television soon announced afterwards that it would be folding into CTS, and would allow the network to run as part of the All-Nippon News Network, a network of TV stations run by TV Asahi Corporation, as well as being an ABS TV affiliate. CTS would inherit its old channel number from ATH, using the 5ch slot previously occupied by its predecessor.

After the HOME takeover announcement, Setonaikai Broadcasting (KSB, another TV Asahi/ANN affiliate) shortly gave another donation along the lines of HBS' amount.

The station officially launched on the 19th of August, 2015.

Operation
CTS works in tandem with both the ATN and the ANN, running major ABS programmes for most of the day, showing some locally-produced programmes made by Hiroshima Home TV within this period, and running a simulcast of TV Asahi's Kanto region programming from 2:15am until sign-off.

Virtually all major TV Asahi/ABS programming on the network has English subtitles, or an English audio channel (often secondary, however some programmes, particularly those made by ABS, name its primary audio language as English).