WOWOW
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 The WOWOW Broadcasting Center in 2009. |
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| City | Akasaka Park Building Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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| First air date | April 1, 1991 (analog) December 1, 2000 (digital) |
| Last air date | July 24, 2011 (analog) |
| Website | wowow |
WOWOW (株式会社WOWOW(ワウワウ、WOWOW Inc.) ), listed as : , is a private satellite broadcasting and pay-per-view television station in Japan. Its headquarters are located on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Its broadcasting center is in Koto, Tokyo.
On October 1, 2011, WOWOW expanded their single channel broadcast satellite service to provide three high-definition TV channels:
WOWOW was the first 24/7, 3 channel, full high-definition broadcaster in Japan.
WOWOW began broadcasting in analog on April 1, 1991. Digital broadcasting began on December 1, 2000. The network began with 207,753 subscribers (31.5 billion yen in sales), growing to 2,667,414 two years later (64.5 billion yen in sales). As of December 2011, WOWOW claimed approximately 2.56 million subscribers to its digital service. On July 24, 2011, WOWOW shut down its analog broadcast.
WOWOW mostly rebroadcasts movies, but is also well known for showing (and even co-producing and/or assisting in the production of) original anime series such as Big O, Brain Powerd, Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran, Trinity Blood, Cowboy Bebop (the complete uncut version), Shinreigari/Ghost Hound, Crest of the Stars, Ergo Proxy, X/1999, SHUFFLE!, Paranoia Agent, Now and Then, Here and There, Le Chevalier d'Eon, the 2016 Berserk series as well as the Anime Complex block. Due to the looser broadcast standards for satellite television in Japan, WOWOW has become a primary means of widespread distribution for anime with themes or subject matter that the broadcast networks cannot show. Several anime studios have partnership deals for distributing their more mature series, with the famed Studio Madhouse among them.
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