People who like to watch Japanese dramas and Japanese variety shows should know that there are not many Japanese TV options, and there are only six main channels: a state-run public media NHK, and five private TV stations including Nippon Television, TBS, ASA, Fuji TV, TV Tokyo, these private TV stations have newspapers behind them as major shareholders, because there is less competition, so the ratings of general Japanese dramas fall between 5% and 15%, and the more popular dramas can even reach more than 20%. This is completely different from the situation in China, and this time I will take you to know the characteristics of each TV station!
▋[NHK] Public media emit positive energy, and morning dramas and big river dramas are quality assurance!
The Japan Broadcasting Corporation, or NHK, established in 1950, was established under Japan's Broadcasting Act to "provide rich and high-quality programs for the people of Japan based on public welfare." Because as a public media must maintain a neutral stance, so NHK can not make a profit through advertising, but through the collection of viewing fees to operate, but this also caused some controversy, because as long as there is a TV set to see NHK, will be charged this fee, which makes many young people dissatisfied, if not pay money will face prosecution, has been in court many times, SONY also launched a TV without NHK signal, did not expect to be very popular.
Speaking of NHK's TV programs, it is absolutely impossible to do without the New Year's must-see "NHK Red and White Song Battle", the official stage that represents the singers, is an infinite glory for singers, female artists are divided into red groups, male artists are divided into white groups, for Japanese people This is a symbol of the end of the year, being able to take the stage also means that popularity has reached a certain level, 2021 will be held for the 72nd time, I don't know what new faces will be this year!
Yoshiko's morning drama "Hanako and Annie" starring Yuriko
NHK's signature programs also include morning dramas and big river dramas, serial television novels broadcast every Monday to Friday at 8 a.m. from 1961 onwards, also known as "morning dramas", which describe the life of the protagonist for half a year, most of which are based on women struggling in adversity, many stories adapted from real people and true events, inspirational content that everyone can watch before going to work, and is also very popular with housewives.
From "Daughter and Me" launched in 1961 to "Welcome Back to Baiyin" launched in 2021, NHK has broadcast 104 works, of which "Ashin", "Thank You for Hospitality", "Hanako and Annie", "Little Haenyeo", "Half Blue Sky" and other dramas are also very popular, and more popular actresses, such as: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Matsushima Naoko, Yuko Takeuchi, Nonian Reina, Miyazaki Aoi, Apricot, Yoshitaka Yuriko, Jun Arimamura, Sakura Ando, Suzu Hirose and others, morning dramas can be said to be the battlefield of actresses As long as you get the tickets for the show, you can greatly increase the national recognition!
Aoi Miyazaki starred in "Tukasahime" when she was 22 years old.
Ryo Yoshizawa starred in "Straight to the Blue Sky"
Broadcast every Sunday at 8 p.m. since 1963, the Ōkawa drama has been produced with the theme of Japanese historical figures or an era, and from the beginning of the first "Career of Flowers" to 2021, Yoshizawa's "Straight to the Blue Sky" has aired 60 works, and has also won many male stars, such as: Hiroshi Yasushi Yasushi Ward in Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ken Watanabe in "One-Eyed Dragon Masamune", Kazuki Kitamura and Hiroyuki Miyagi in "Hojo Toshimune", "New Selection Group!" Koshi Yamamoto and Masato Sakai, there are also Ōkawa dramas with female protagonists, and "Tokuhime", starring Aoi Miyazaki when she was 22 years old, has very good ratings, and Aoi Miyazaki is also the youngest actor in history.
▋[Nippon Television] The first commercial television station and the king of variety shows
Japan Television, whose full name is Japan Television Broadcasting Network Co., Ltd., referred to as NTV, is Japan's first commercial television station, since its establishment in 1953, the ratings have been suppressed by TBS Television and Fuji Television, but after winning the ratings "Triple Crown" in 1994, the ratings have been in the upstream stage for a long time.
Nakama's classic teacher-student drama "Extreme Path Fresh Master" starring Yuki Nakama
"Dispatch Queen" starring Ryoko Shinohara
Speaking of Japanese TV's Japanese dramas, the most famous are Water Ten, Soil Ten, Day Ten, "Water Ten" refers to the Wednesday night ten o'clock slot, targeting women, including "14-year-old little mother", "Dispatch Queen", "Domestic Women King" and other dramas are quite enthusiastic, recently there are "Proofreading Queen", "Fang Zhong Queen", "Deep Love" and other dramas; and "Soil Ten" is Saturday night ten o'clock slot, the early is nine o'clock, from 2017 to ten o'clock, the early years are often based on campus dramas, And it is often starred by Janis artists, including "Extreme Fresh Master", "Queen's Classroom", "Transforming Wild Boar Girl", "My Boss My Hero" and other dramas, and recently the critically acclaimed "Comedy Opening".
"Day Ten" refers to the 10:00 p.m. slot on Sunday, a new slot that began to be cultivated in 2015, targeting adult men, with an entertaining theme, and the famous drama includes "I Am Big Brother!" "3 Year A Class", "It's Your Turn", "Extreme Master", "The Day of the End of the World with You" and other dramas. Some of the variety shows include "Laughter Point", "Super Change", "Cooking East and West Army", "A Q Adventure", "The Moon Is Still Dark", etc., some of which are introduced to China, and even Chinese are very familiar with the program!
▋【Fuji TV】Set off a wave of "Moon Nine" love dramas
Speaking of Fuji TV, Japanese drama fans should be very familiar with fuji tv, fuji tv, which has produced countless high-quality good dramas, was founded in 1957, and in 1982 it was the "triple crown" of the core bureau ratings, and the famous month nine time slot was even more popular overseas, winning countless stars, but after the 2010s, Fuji tv's ratings have declined rapidly, and Fuji TV has been trying to break through in recent years.
In 1991, the hugely popular "Tokyo Love Story" was broadcast.
Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi starring in "Long Holiday"
"Moon Nine" can be said to be the signature of Fuji TV, referring to the TV series broadcast at 9 pm on Monday, several consecutive dramas "Tokyo Love Story", "101 Marriage Proposals", "Long Holiday", "Love Generation", "Yamato Gold Worship girl", "HERO", "Symphonic Lover's Dream", "Marriage Proposal Battle", "Air Emergency Hero" and other ratings are very strong, but after 2010, it gradually began to decline, Fuji TV also began to challenge different routes, including remakes of foreign TV series, etc. The main route of the current moon nine is no longer a love drama!
Fuji has also produced dramas such as "Renzaburo Furuhata", "The Great Search Line", "Tears of a Liter", and "Ace Barrister" during the "Fire Nine" time slot (21:00 on Tuesdays). On Thursday night, "Mu Ten" at 10 o'clock in the evening also gave birth to popular dramas such as "White Tower" and "Tram Man", and variety shows such as "SMAP× SMAP", "The Wonderful Story of the World", "Love Bus", "All The Way Away" and so on are also quite well-known programs. In addition, Fuji TV is also the first television station in Japan to broadcast television animation, in 1963 broadcast "Atomic Little Kong", followed by "Miss Conch", "Cherry Maruko", "ONE PIECE", "Oolong Police Station" and so on are all cartoons that accompany everyone's childhood.
2005 "One Liter of Tears"
2012 Season 1 "Ace Barrister"
▋[TBS TV] Recently popular drama manufacturing machine
TBS Television was launched in 1955 as the tv division of the Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation, and was later reformed to integrate into TBS TELEVISION, which had very good ratings before the 1980s, but then fuji rose, tv Asahi successfully reformed its programs, often ranking fourth, and only after 2010 did it re-emerge with popular Japanese dramas.
Masato Sakai starred in the highly rated "Naoki Hanzawa"
TBS TV's news programs are excellent, there are many special reports, but everyone is more familiar with TBS's Nichiyo Theater, TV dramas broadcast at 9 o'clock on Sundays, from the early "Kintaro Office Worker", "Beautiful Life", "Dream Flight Good Luck", "Ren Doctor" and other dramas, to the recent "Shimomachi Rocket", "99.9 Impossible Reversal", "Naoki Hanzawa", "Heaven and Hell" and other results are very good, especially the end of "Naoki Hanzawa" hit 42.2% Ultra-high ratings.
The popular Japanese drama "Wife of the Month" starring Yui Niigaki
TBS TV also has "Fire Ten" and "Golden Ten" time slots, "Fire Ten" for every Tuesday night at 10 pm to broadcast the main female drama, creating many wonderful love dramas "Monthly Salary Wife", "Please Fall in Love with This Useless Me", "Stepmother and Daughter Blues", "The Story Read on the Day of First Love", "Love Can Last Forever", "My Housekeeper Mr. Nagisa", etc.; and "Golden Ten" broadcast at 10 pm on Friday night, although the middle was once replaced by news programs, However, many popular works have been born, such as "Tell Me To Love Me", "Shouting Love in the Center of the World", "UTokyo Special Training Class", "Meteor Garden", "UNNATURAL", "My Family's Story", "Divorce Activities" and so on.
▋【TV Asahi】The king of criminal dramas and medical dramas, "MUSIC STATION" is super classic!
Asahi TV was founded in 1957, just in Roppongi, everyone going to Japan to play may have seen it long ago, originally established for educational programs, and then slowly transformed, TV Asahi has also given birth to many variety shows, "Legend of Gold", "Pickets for Men and Women", "Tetsuko's Room" that has allocated more than 11,000 episodes, and the super popular music program "MUSIC STATION" are super masterpieces.
In terms of animation, there are also many works such as "A Hugh Monk", "Sailor Moon", "Slam Dunk Master", "Doraemon", "Crayon Shin", etc. are everyone's childhood, and children are also facing the special drama "Kamen Rider Series" and "Super Team Series", many male stars are debuting from this show!
Ryoko Yonekura starred in the popular medical hymn "Doctor-X"
In terms of Japanese dramas, Asahi TV has two time slots of "Water Nine" and "Wood Nine", and the "Water Nine" time slot at 9 o'clock on Wednesday night is mainly a criminal drama, which is a super work that continues for several episodes, such as "Xiang Stick", "Special 9", "Criminal Police Seven", etc.; and "Mu Jiu" broadcast at 9 pm on Thursday night also has a large number of well-known Japanese dramas "Doctor-X", "Daughter of Science Search Research", "Domestic Husband Three Pastoral", "Queen's Interrogation Room", "BG ~ Police Protector ~", etc., which can be seen that Asahi's specialty is medical and criminal police dramas.
▋【TV Tokyo】Late night drama king! The style is unique
Formerly known as "Tokyo 12 Co., Ltd." TV Tokyo, because the simulcast network TXN does not cover the whole of Japan, so the ratings are also the lowest, the program production fee is not as big as other TV stations, so it has developed a unique style, there is a legend that when a major event occurs, TV Tokyo will hardly change the broadcast of special express, such as the start of the Gulf War, the Hanshin Awaji earthquake, the subway Sarin incident, the September 11 incident. In fact, it is because TV Tokyo's coverage is not high enough, and it is not easy to use materials, so it does not broadcast special reports, but it will also get high ratings.
Matsushige toyo starred in the super popular late-night drama "The Lonely Foodie"
TV Tokyo's Japanese dramas are the most well-known as "late-night dramas", "Lonely Foodie", "Brave Yoshihiko Series", "Yesterday's Food", "NiangWang", "If you are still a virgin at 30, you seem to be able to become a magician" Although it is broadcast in the late-night time slot, it is extremely popular; while TV Tokyo is trying to open up the time slot at 10 o'clock on Monday night, in 2020 there is "Co-acting NG" starring Takaichi Nakai and Kyoka Suzuki, and in 2021, there is "Do You Want a Cup of Coffee" starring Tsuru Nakamura at 11 pm. TV Tokyo, which has a fairly diverse theme, is trying to develop its own new path.
The highly popular anime Evangelion
In addition, there are many anime that are also popular programs of TV Tokyo, "Evangelion", "Pokémon", "King of Games", "The Prince of Tennis", "Naruto", "Gollum" and so on are quite popular anime works in Japan and abroad, I can only say that TV Tokyo's vision and judgment are still quite good, although the production cost is not high, but the creeps can also make great achievements!
Although Japanese television stations are not a hundred schools of thought, each tv station has its own style and characteristics, and it is also very careful to understand the preferences of the audience, in order to continuously create popular dramas, produce popular strip programs, and cultivate loyal listeners. I believe that there are many Chinese have also grown up with these Japanese movies, welcome to leave a message to tell us your favorite Japanese TV series or programs!
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