TV Tokyo – "God-like Being"!
TV Tokyo (テレビ Tokyo, TV TOKYO) is one of the five core television stations (key stations) in Japan, abbreviated as "East View" (テレ東), "TX" (derived from the call sign JOTX-DTV) or "Tokyo Radio".
Founded in 1964, TV Tokyo is known as Japan's six major television stations along with the other five major Japanese television stations (NHK, TBS, Asahi, NTV, and Fuji), but TV Tokyo, unlike other stations, is known for its "willfulness".
The legend of TV Tokyo's "willfulness" has been circulating in the folk for a long time, and no matter how major events and accidents occur, TV Tokyo will not change its original program broadcast plan, and broadcast a variety of light-hearted and funny programs such as animation and food on time. As a result, it was jokingly called "God-like existence" by Japanese netizens! ”。
TV Tokyo's "Glorious History"
After the explosion of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, major television stations throughout Japan were tracking the report in almost real time, except for TV Tokyo, which broadcast "Animal World".
After the end of the 2016 US election, major TELEVISION stations are reporting the blockbuster news of Trump's election, but the "wayward" TV Tokyo is still going its own way, broadcasting food programs, "Such a big crab, it must be very delicious!" ”
At the Japanese election conference that year, Shinzo Abe was elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and became the prime minister of Japan, and the major media were front-page headlines, but TV Tokyo only added a row of subtitles to the cartoons that were being broadcast... This wave of calm operation makes people have to be convinced!
In July 2018, Akira Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo sect who planned the Sarin gas incident on the Tokyo subway, was sentenced to death, which was definitely a sensational event for Japan at that time! Other television stations broadcast live.
However, TOKYO only added two rows of subtitles while broadcasting the cartoon! Notice that there are two rows! There was an extra row than when Abe came to power!
"The Legend of Tokyo Terrace"
Due to THE "willfulness" of TV Tokyo, its own way, and a series of "calm" divine operations, there is a widespread folklore of such a "TV Tokyo legend" - as long as TV Tokyo does not report, nothing big will happen.
Such a scene appears in the Japanese movie "I AM A HERO" with the theme of zombie apocalypse.
The male protagonist said: "As long as TV Tokyo is still playing cartoons, it must be fine." But after saying this, TV Tokyo on the screen suddenly switched from cartoon to news broadcast, and the faces of the two suddenly changed dramatically.
Yet just last week...
On February 24, 2022, the "TV Tokyo legend" was broken, Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine, and TV Tokyo, which seemed to be forever "calm", interrupted the program that was being broadcast and inserted this emergency news.
This situation made a group of Japanese netizens exclaim , "Big things are not good!" It's terrible...", one netizen said on social media: "TV Tokyo interrupted the program to broadcast the news, which is so unusual, goosebumps are going to fall!" ”
For this situation, TOKYO TV has also come forward to explain that due to the lack of money, TSE broadcasts almost all pre-recorded programs, and whenever there is a major news, due to the lack of people, they do not have the ability to send reporters to report on the spot, at most, with a subtitle to explain the situation.
"TV Tokyo legend is broken" has become a hot topic, but it is more of a ridiculous nature, and these jokes also indirectly express the concern and concern of Japanese netizens about the world situation.
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