Japanese TV channels that aired Dragon Ball

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Fuji TV is perhaps the iconic domestic broadcaster for all the Dragon Ball series having aired everything from the original way back when it began in 1986 to the peak of the revival era with Super, and in keeping with tradition it will be airing Daima in the fall.

Of course because of Dragon Ball's monstrous success internationally and in its home territory of Japan Fuji TV was not the only channel it aired on. Heres several of the other channels that aired it I'm aware of, many are their own affiliates, but others are independent networks and affiliates of other broadcasting giants.

• Fuji TV affiliates:
  • BS Fuji : Reran Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT after both series conclusions on Fuji TV and Z again around 2009 with poor audio
    • From what I've heard Z had a later rerun on this channel, which ended in June 2012 with GT following on June 24, 2012
    • Also, even more recently Dragon Ball Super was rerun from February 14, 2021 to about August 20, 2023, assuming a new episode was shown every Sunday
  • Tokai TV : Reran Dragon Ball Z but had a playback error where there was a beep sound at the beginning of episode 5 that wasn't heard on Fuji TV, despite this channel being an affiliate. Something unique about this channel is they aired the summer special on August 3, 1992. Dragon Ball Super premiered the same day as Fuji TV on July 5, 2015
  • Akita TV : Aired Dragon Ball Kai with a temporary replacement score TOEI used after the acknowledgement of the Yamamoto scandal, which carried over to the CW broadcasts in the US. Super premiered on July 15, 2015
  • Kansai TV channel 8 : Premiered new episodes of Dragon Ball Kai a week after Fuji TV. The channel began airing Dragon Ball Super on July 12, 2015
  • TV Oita : New episodes of Dragon Ball Kai premiered 16 weeks after their debut on Fuji TV. Dragon Ball Super premiered on July 19, 2015
  • TV Shizuoka : Same as above for Kai. Also premiered Super same day as Fuji TV and Tokai TV
  • Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting : Dragon Ball Super premiered the same day as Fuji TV and Tokai TV
  • Iwate Menkoi TV : Same as above, in Iwate region
  • Ishikawa TV Broadcasting : Same as above, in Ishikawa region
  • TV Shin Hiroshima : Same as above, in Hiroshima region
  • Saga TV : Same as above, in Saga region
  • Sendai Broadcasting : Same as above, in Miyagi region
  • Niigata General Television : Same as above, in Niigata region
  • Okayama Broadcasting : Same as above, in Okayama, Kagawa
  • Nagano Broadcasting : Same as above, in Nagano region
  • TV Nagasaki : Same as above for Dragon Ball Super
  • Toyama TV : Dragon Ball Super premiered on July 11, 2015
  • San'in Central Television Broadcasting : Dragon Ball Super premiered on July 16, 2015 in the Tottori and Shimane regions
  • TV Kumamoto : Dragon Ball Super premiered on July 18, 2015 in the Kumamoto region
  • Fukui TV : Dragon Ball Super premiered on July 25, 2015 in Fukui region
  • TV Ehime : Dragon Ball Super premiered on August 2, 2015 in the Ehime region
  • TV Miyazaki : Dragon Ball Super premiered on August 16, 2015 in the Miyazaki region
  • Kagoshima TV : Dragon Ball Super premiered on August 23, 2015 in the Kagoshima region
• TV Yamaguchi : Aired Dragon Ball Z three weeks after their Fuji TV debuts
• Tokyo MX : The same rerun of Z and GT from BS Fuji was carried on to this channel, but weeks earlier (for example Z was being rerun from about 2010 every night at 10pm and GT began May 8, 2012 on MX). GT used the good audio synced to Dragon Box footage but Z's audio was poor. Dragon Ball Kai was rerun on this channel from April 6, 2014
• TV Osaka : Same as above for Kai
• Fuji TV Two : Kai began airing on March 30, 2011 with two episodes a week. The channel also featured reruns of Dragon Ball Z and movie 12 the weekend of March 25-27, 2011
• TOEI Channel : Both Dragon Ball Z TV specials were rerun in early 2013
• Animax : Dragon Ball Z was aired as early as 1999 and had another reun in 2009 with poor audio. Bardock The Father of Goku was aired in 2011 and History of Trunks in 2012. The original 13 Dragon Ball Z movies were aired in 2013 possibly starting on March 3rd with upscaled Dragon Box footage. These movies were aired a few years prior. Both of the first two Broly movies were screened together
  More recently they reran original Dragon Ball from December 11, 2018
  • The most recent rerun of the Bardock special I'm aware of was on December 23, 2018
• TV West Japan : Same as above, in Fukokowa region
• Cherry Television : Same as above in Yamagata region
• Kochi TV : Same as above in Kochi region

Also, as a bonus, reruns on Fuji TV:

• A few years after the conclusion of GT, Dragon Ball Z began rerunning in 2000 with poor audio, which boggles the mind as we now know Fuji TV still has the good quality audio masters they received
• Dragon Ball Z had a later rerun around February 2006
• Dragon Ball Kai began reruns on April 6, 2021 every Tuesday at 1:25am. This was the first terrestrial broadcast of anything Dragon Ball in Japan since Super ended in 2018

Anyone know any others?

[Cure Dragon 255]

This is an extremely interesting topic. Everyone knows about Fuji TV but not other channels.