NHK TV Programs Ⅱ

Subsequently to last week, I'll introduce NHK TV Programs and this week, especially feature "E-tere", NHK Education TV.

・Outline
"E-tere" has most same programs in Japan, which is different from General TV. It often broadcasts entertainment programs about education, hobby, culture, and for welfare, disorders and children.

Timetable of program

• 5:00-6:25　culture
• 6:25-6:35　TV gymnastic exercises 
• 6:35-9:00　E-tere kids(for infant and child) 
• 9:00-10:15　education
• 10:15-12:00　culture&hobby
• 12:00-13:05　welfare&health
• 13:05-13:30　culture
• 13:30-14:00　language
• 14:00-15:30　NHK high school course
• 15:30-18:00　"E-tere" kids
• 18:00-20:00　anime&variety for children  
• 20:00-21:00　welfare&health
• 21:00-22:50　culture&hobby
• 22:50-24:00　language
• 24:00-24:50　culture for young people 
• 24:50-25:05　reconstraction of the programs broadcasted on 1seg2

・special collection
I want to introduce one of my favorite programs of "E-tere". It's "0655" and "2355".
"0655" 6:55~7:00
"2355" 23:55~24:00
Both programs are broadcasted on weekdays.
These two programs started since 2010/3/29 and are broadcasted on a beginning and an end of one day in order to adjust rhythm of the day with movies and music. There are many lovely characters and mascots which give the power to act on the day and  relieve our fatigue.                         
  0655
"the song of dog/cat"
Song showing pictures of dogs and cats which are contributed by viewers.
"Tanakuji" 
A fortune of the week and we can make it amulet by taking picture by our cellphone.

"Asagakita!"

2355
"today's Tobby"
Tobby, flying fish and main mascot of "2355" mutters some words about the day. He sometimes gives a question, "tobinazo". And there are sub characters, "Dokary", is hermit crab, "Eby", is prawn and so on.
"yofukasi-work shop"
On Friday, Bakushomonndai thinks mystery around our lives through a workshop.

Toby

 "0655" and "2355" are very pleasant programs and don't you watch these?


Next week, I'll tell you NHK foreign broadcasting.
See you!!
          
                                                                                                                                                                                   

NHK TV Programs

I'll talk about NHK TV programs for two weeks and what I introduce this week is NHK General TV.

・News
News programs are called "NHK News" ,which is put on the air at the sated time for all over Japan. Mainly programs are below, morning, noon, evening and night news.
4:30~8:00       "Good Morning Japan"
12:00~12:20   "NHK News (Noon)"
19:00~19:30   "NEWS 7"
21:00~22:00   "News Watch 9"

・Talk and Variety Show
There are not only news programs but also various interesting and useful TV. About daily information program, "Tamesite Gattenn" tells us information about familiar topics. In this program, usual common knowledge is often denied and we can find new one. And "Nipponn-no-Kyoyo by Bakushou Monndai" concerned with the team of "kyoyo"-"culture in Japanese". The presenters, Ota and Tanaka always talk with the guest about him specialty. "Chakushinn-Onnrei Ketai-Ogiri" is a comedy program based on viewers' contribution. The form is that viewers answer question set by presenters. It is one of characters of this that TV is in combination with the Internet.

"Tamesite Gattenn"
Wednesday,20:00~20:43
 "Nipponn-no-Kyoyo by Bakushou Monndai"
 Thursday,22:55~23:24
 "Chakushinn-Onnrei Ketai-Ogiri"
 first and third Saturday midnight,0:00~0:45

・Drama
The most two popular dramas of NHK are, I think, "Renzoku TV Shousetsu" and "Taiga Drama". The former is known as "Asadora" and a serial program since 1961. Because it is broadcasted on weekdays, despite a short story in one broadcasting, it becomes so long story in all. A woman is always a heroine and  described as a person who lives vigorously struggling against adverse circumstances. The later is a drama which have a team about the history of Japan. This drama also has long history and continues since 1963. "Taiga" comes from "a novel of Taiga" which means has long story with a big scale.

"Renzoku TV Shousetsu" 
expecting Sunday,8:00~8:15 now-"Carnation" This is a 85th drama.
"Taiga Drama"           
Sunday,20:00~20:45 now "Tairano-Kiyomori" This is a 51th.


Next week, I'll talk about NHK TV Programs once more but about NHK E-TV.
See you!!

NHK Announcers

The topic on this time is NHK Announcer. Is it all right to go directly into the main question?

・Who are they?
This time, I will mainly take TV announcers, who appear especially in three major news programs. These programs are "Ohayou Nihonn", "News 7" and "News Watch 9". It is, I think, not too much to say that to be NHK announcer is equal to be the face of Japanese news TV.

<Ohayou Nihonn>                                   

Wataru Abe

              












<News 7>

Shiniti Takeda

<News Watch 9>


Kenithi Okosi


Recently, there have been not only male announcers but female announcers who play active parts in News programs and are generally beautiful.

Asahi Inoue
She has started to appear "News Watch 9" since April in 2011. It is said that her looks and bodily shape are marvelous than any announcers in NHK. For example, she graduated from Ochanomizu women's college.

Tomoko Kogou
She is a graduate of Waseda university and in charge of a main anchor on Saturday and Sunday. It is for the first time in 12 years that woman becomes a main anchor in NHK. There is a rumor that her figure is so glamorous that the audience ratings went up 2~3%.






The source:http://cgi4.nhk.or.jp/a-room/index.cgi
                http://www.zakzak.co.jp/entertainment/ent-news/news/20110507/enn1105071524010-n1.htm     
As I have said, NHK thinks announcers' figure is more important than their school background. I think that the background on the fact results from women announcers of commercial broadcasting becoming more popular. In fact, NHK women announcers have never placed among the top 10 of  women announcers ranking by the Oricon chart.


Next week, I'll talk about NHK's TV programs.
See you!!

NHK Radio

This week, I intend to take up the topic about NHK Radio, but we will rarely listen to radio as the main media. Moreover, when it comes to "NHK", we hardly do but at shops and on taxis. But as I knew it, I realized that it is not only just news programs.

This character is "Rajiru". It appeared as an official mascot of NHK Radio from this year.
Its motto is "a, radio kiko".

・How is it?
On NHK Radio, there are three radio stations, NHK Radio1, NHK Radio2 and NHK FM. News programs are broadcasted by Radio1. It uses the same a source of TV's sound. In 1931 Radio2 branched off it and Radio2 became in charge of educational program which looked like NHK Education. Being difference from TV, Radio2 broadcasted about stock and foreign language news on Radio2. It is said that R1 is the program of all over Japan for the general public and R2 is city one for the intelligent. NHK FM mainly has music programs and radio drama. It, differently from commercial broadcasting, covered various genre of music. For example, classic, western music, jazz, etc… It has started experimentally since 1957 and in '69, begun for all over Japan. "Kouhaku utagassenn" and "NHK nodojimann", which are still popular programs of NHK TV, were born on NHK Radio. After TV broadcasting started in 1953, Radio gradually disappeared from the principal stage of the media. But before TV, it had played an important role as the main media.

Next week, I'll pick announcers of NHK for the topic.
See you!!

NHK Education TV

I'll start to write articles about NHK, in particular NHK Education TV this week.I watched this program when I was a child. At first,I thought it was TV program for kids, but it turned out to be wrong...

・How is it?
It was started 1959.1.11. It is one program of NHK and from 2011.6.11, its name was changed to "NHK Etere". This name's "E" has meaning of not only "Education" but also "Ecology". As this name, it has mainly programs about cultural and linguistic education, but broadcasts animes and dramas for children and high school and university sports. By the way, the most high audience rating was 29.4% on the baseball game program at Koshien in 1979. In ETV's history, there was an issue, "What time does this program finished?" Before the later 1990s, it finished at 24:00. But after that, it has broadcast later than 24:00.

Next week topic is about NHK Radio.
See you!!

This picture is 2355, my favorite NHK Etere's program. 

History of NHK

This week, I introduce history of NHK. TV has very old history, television was invented at the beginning of 20th century.  Of course, history of it in Japan will have also.

・How did it be established?
1925, Tokyo broadcasting station, which is forerunner of NHK, began radio broadcasting for the first time in Japan.Next year, 3 broadcasting station, Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, were integrated into NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

・How did it change?
Though it was controlled by the government in wartime, after the war, its radio network was spread around the country affected by GHQ.1953, it started TV broadcasting and in '59 NHK education television and in 2000 digital Hi-vision broadcasting were began.But today, because of appearances of  digital pay TV, cable TV and  the Internet broadcasting, it must compete hardly against business broadcasting.

Next week, I'll take a topic about NHK Education TV.
See you!!

Outline of NHK

From this week, I'm writing about NHK on this blog.I watch NHK's news programs on TV as one of most reliable sources of information.First week, I told you the outline of NHK.

・What is it?
"NHK" is short of  "Nippon Hoso Kyokai" in Japanese.This organization is a corporation which has the aims of spreading various broadcasts and broadcasting better programs based on the broadcast law.

・What does it do?
NHK broadcasts publicly without dependence on the government and for no profit.It acts by a reception fee collected from viewers. There is a problem that some viewers will not pay the fee. I 'm going to write about this problem on next chance.

・How does it broadcast?
It does reports by means of seven waves, NHK synthetic television, NHK  education television(NHK Etele), NHK BS1, NHK BSpremium, NHK radio1, NHK radio2 and NHK-FM.
According to these waves, there is the reports for foreign countries.

Next week, I'll write about history of NHK.
See you!!