TV Surge Nippon

TV Surge Nippon (TV-SURGE) is a Japanese television station to serve most of Japan. It competes with the other national television stations of Japan. The channel is owned by Typewriter Japan, the production arm of the mass media company RaGE Media Group. Firebasket Studios, acting as Firebasket Broadcasting, will help produce programming for the show. Dentsu will help produce shows and help with talent.

The channel will focus on dramas, entertainment, sports, variety, late night anime, and much more. The channel launched on October 1, 2018 at 8am JST.

History
After TV Tokyo and Animax took a stake in SurgeAnime, SurgeAnime decided to branch out and broadcast a non-anime focused channel (while still airing some anime).

TV Surge Nippon will co-produce Marching Along, Spirit Love, and Dead Walking.

On April 18, 2019, Firebasket Broadcasting sold it's stake to Typewriter Japan and TV Tokyo.

Post launch
TV Surge will be producing live action dramas based on Venga shows, as well as making a Xelphos tokusatu series.

Anime

 * Ryobe: The Sea (premiere, Saturday 8:30a)
 * Dueler 2018 (premiere, Sunday 8:30a)
 * Xelphos III (repeat of SurgeAnime premiere, Thursday, 7:30p)
 * Xelphos Adventures (Weekdays, 6-7p)
 * Shining Star Nova (Friday, 7:30p)
 * Marching Along (Saturday 11:30p)
 * M.I.n.D (Saturday, 1a-1:25a)
 * Venga/Studio Acesky/Madhouse production
 * Tragedy of Space (Saturday, 1:25a-2a)

Upcoming

 * Firebasket's Dead Walking (February 2019, Saturday, 12:30-1a)

News

 * Morning Surge (Daily, 6a-8:30a)
 * Evening Surge (Weekends, 11:55p-12:25a)

Live-action

 * Magical Girl Zeta (October 2018, Tuesdays, 7:30p-8p)
 * Night Owl (October 2018, Tuesdays, 8p-9p)
 * Dial (October 2018, Thursdays, 8-9p)
 * Tokyo Cyberpunk (October 2018, Thursdays, 9p-10:15p)
 * Xelphos Tokuatsu (December 2018, Saturdays, 11p-11:30p)

Variety

 * GAME ON! (Weekdays, 8:30a-12p;11:30p-11:55p)
 * FESTIVAL OF MUSIC (Weekdays, 2:30p-4p;10:15p-11:30p)