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{{Expand Japanese|岐阜放送|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| name = 
| callsign = JOZF-DTV
| logo = Gbs logo.svg
| image = Gifu Broadcasting System in Gifu City Tower 43.jpg
| image_size = 245px
| city=[[Gifu]]
| location = [[Gifu Prefecture]], Japan
| digital = 30 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]]) 
|virtual =  8
| former_callsigns = JOZF-TV (1968-2011)
| former_channel_numbers = 37 (analog, UHF, 1968-2011)
| airdate = August 12, 1968
| affiliations = [[Independent station|Independent]] ([[Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations|JAITS]])
| owner = Gifu Broadcasting System, Inc.
| licensing_authority = [[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications|MIC]]
| coordinates = 
| website = [http://zf-web.com/ zf-web.com]
}}

{{Infobox radio station|
 name = JOZF |
 city = [[Gifu]]|
 area = [[Gifu prefecture]]|
 frequency = 1431 [[Kilohertz|kHz]] (AM); 90.4 MHz (FM)|
 format = [[Talk radio|Talk]]/[[Sports radio|Sports]]|
 power = 5 kW|
 airdate = December 24, 1962|
 callsign_meaning = |
 affiliations = independent|
 owner = Gifu Broadcasting System, Inc. |
 website = [http://zf-web.com/ zf-web.com]
}}

{{Nihongo|'''Gifu Broadcasting System'''|岐阜放送株式会社|Gifu Hōsō Kabushiki-gaisha|'''GBS'''}} is a regional radio and television service serving [[Gifu prefecture]], Japan.  Its radio service is an independent AM station and its television service is a member of the [[Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations|JAITS]]. The station is branded as '''Gifu Chan''' (ぎふチャン).

==Capital composition==
As of March 31, 2021:<ref>{{cite book|author={{lang|ja|日本民間放送連盟}}|script-title=ja:『日本民間放送年鑑 2021』|year=2021|publisher={{lang|ja|コーケン出版}}|location=Tokyo|isbn=978-4990809065|language=ja}}</ref>{{rp|377}}：
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
!Capital!!Value per share!!Total number of shares issued!!Number of shareholders
|-
|3,000,000,000 yen||5000 yen||600,000 shares||100
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!股東!!持股數!!比例
|-
|Gifu Shimbun||284,460 shares||47.41%
|-
|Gifu Prefecture Government||102,000 shares||17.00%
|-
|{{ill|16th Bank|lt=|ja|十六銀行}}||24,400 shares||4.06%
|-
|{{ill|Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank|lt=|ja|大垣共立銀行}}||12,800 shares||2.13%
|-
|[[Chunichi Shimbun]]||12,000 shares||2.00%
|-
|[[Gifu]] City||10,926 shares||1.82%
|-
|{{ill|Gifu Bank|lt=|ja|岐阜信用金庫}}||10,000 shares||1.66%
|}

==History==
The first commercial broadcasting company in Gifu Prefecture was Gifu Broadcasting (GHK), which opened in 1955 (the call sign is JOOF, which is not the same company as the company introduced in this article). However, the company was later renamed [[Tokai Radio]], merged with Kinki Tokai Broadcasting in Mie Prefecture, and was shut down in March 1960.<ref name="Shashi60">{{cite book|author=Gifu Broadcasting System|script-title=ja:『岐阜放送60年のあゆみ』 |year=2022 |publisher=Gifu Broadcasting System |location=Gifu |isbn=|language=ja}}{{NCID|033289938}}</ref>{{rp|7}} After that, Yamada Husband, then president of Gifu Nichichin Shimbun, launched a movement to establish a Gifu prefectural radio station, and held a meeting of sponsors to establish the "Gifu Radio Co., Ltd." on September 20, 1960.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|7}} On October 4 of the same year, Gifu Radio officially applied to obtain a broadcasting license, and cooperated with [[Ibaraki Prefecture]], [[Tochigi Prefecture]], etc. in a similar situation to petition the Ministry of Postal Affairs.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|8}} On May 9, 1962, the Postal Ministry approved Gifu Prefecture to obtain a broadcasting license. Radio frequency bands used by county radio stations.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|9}} On July 10 of the same year, Gifu Radio Co., Ltd. obtained a preliminary license for this frequency band.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|9}} On September 7, Gifu Radio Co., Ltd. held a founding meeting at the Gifu Nichichi News Agency and was officially established.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|10}} Afterwards, Gifu Radio purchased land in Sogaya in the northwest of Gifu City to use as a signal transmitting station.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|10-11}} At 12:30 on December 4, 1962, Gifu Radio began trial broadcasting.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|11}} After obtaining the official broadcast license on December 15, Gifu Radio officially started broadcasting at 9:30 on December 24.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|12}} In 1963, Gifu Radio completed the third and fourth recording studios.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|15}} On December 24, 1964, Gifu Radio Takayama Broadcasting Bureau began broadcasting programs, symbolizing Gifu Radio’s coverage of the Hida area.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|18-19}} The next year, Gifu Radio opened the Ena Broadcasting Bureau in Ena City, covering the Tono area.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|19}} In January 1968, Gifu Radio changed its company name to Gifu Broadcasting. And on April 1 of the same year, the Gero Hagiwara Broadcasting Bureau was opened, and the broadcast scope was expanded to southern Hida.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|20}}

Gifu Radio decided to apply for a television broadcast license the year after it started broadcasting. It initially planned to obtain a broadcast license for VHF channel 7.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|15}} On August 23, 1963, Gifu Radio submitted an application to open a UHF TV channel.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|21}} However, this idea did not become a reality until 1965, when the Postal Ministry agreed to open UHF radio waves for television broadcasting.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|22}} On October 2, 1967, the Postal Ministry issued the first UHF television frequency allocation plan, Gifu being among [[1967 in Japanese television#First tranche of UHF television stations in Japan|one of the first 18 regions to obtain UHF frequencies]].<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|23}} At that time, in addition to Gifu Radio, two other companies in Gifu Prefecture applied for television broadcasting licenses. Later, with the mediation of Saburo Hirano, the then governor of Gifu Prefecture, the three companies agreed to integrate the application. Gifu Broadcasting also increased its capital in order to prepare for broadcasting.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|23}}

At 9:00 on July 20, 1968, Gifu Broadcasting began test television broadcasts.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|25}} At 8:50 on August 12 of the same year, Gifu Broadcasting officially started broadcasting its television station. The first program broadcast was Gifu Nichinichi Shimbun News. Gifu Broadcasting thus became Japan's first commercial UHF television station.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|26}} Gifu Broadcasting purchased a piece of land adjacent to the Gifu Nichibana News Agency in Imakomachi, Gifu City in 1977, and started building a new headquarters on November 1, 1979.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|29}} On September 30 of the following year, Gifu Broadcasting's new headquarters was completed. On October 1, Gifu Broadcasting began broadcasting programs from the new headquarters.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|31}}

Starting in 1992, Gifu Broadcasting Television has implemented full-day broadcasting from 9am.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|34}} Gifu Broadcasting began broadcasting digital TV on April 1, 2005, and the remote control number was changed to channel 8.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|37}} At the repeated invitation of the Gifu City Government, Gifu Broadcasting moved to [[Gifu City Tower 43]] in front of Gifu Station in 2007, and began broadcasting programs from City Tower 43 on November 11 of the same year.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|39-40}} July 2011 On the 24th, Gifu Broadcasting stopped broadcasting analog TV signals.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|42}} Gifu Broadcasting celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the broadcast, Gifu Broadcasting held the Marc Chagall exhibition<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|44-45}} at the Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art. In June 2020, Gifu Broadcasting opened the news website "Gifu Chan DIGITAL" to provide information to all over Japan Introducing news from Gifu Prefecture.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|48-49}}

==Programming==
When Gifu Broadcasting started broadcasting radio programs, it broadcast 18 hours of programs every day from 6 a.m., broadcasting eleven 10-minute news bulletins every day, and its own programs made up 10 hours a day.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|13}} In September 1997, Gifu Broadcasting began broadcasting its first nightly information program "LoveLove Wide Gifu TODAY", which was broadcast for 8 years.<ref name="Shashi60" />{{rp|36}} Currently, Gifu Broadcasting's main evening news program is "Gifu Sate!", which has been broadcast since 2019 and is broadcast for 10 minutes every Monday to Friday at 18:15.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zf-web.com/tv/news/gifusate/post.html#google_vignette|script-title=ja:ぎふサテ！|accessdate=2024-03-17|publisher=Gifu Broadcasting System|language=ja|url-status=live|archive-date=2024-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317123441/https://www.zf-web.com/tv/news/gifusate/post.html}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://zf-web.com/ GBS official website]

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[[Category:Radio stations established in 1962]]
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[[Category:Companies based in Gifu Prefecture]]
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