Sapporo Television Broadcasting

Sapporo Television Broadcasting, Co., Ltd. is a TV station of Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Hokkaidō, Japan. Headquartered in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaidō prefecture, the TV station was established on April 8, 1958. It is usually called "STV" for short, which is used as a name in a number of TV programs.

Since December 15, 1962, the company has worked as both television and radio station until July 12, 2005, when the radio section was split into the STV Radio Broadcasting, Co., Ltd. was established. Currently, the STV Radio is a radio station of National Radio Network in Hokkaidō, Japan. The license of the radio broadcasting was succeeded to the STV Radio, and started radio broadcasting on October 1, 2005.