NPB’s anger not subsiding…Fuji TV may be banned from broadcasting professional baseball tryouts and MVP award ceremony.
Fuji TV’s response can be found at ……
However, this will be the last year that the event will be held. In recent years, scouts from each team have observed all games, even farm games, and there are few cases where a player’s second career is determined by a single pitch at tryouts. It has been decided that the program will be discontinued at the end of this year on the grounds that it has fulfilled a certain role.
Fuji Television has been broadcasting live on CS broadcasts and other media. Is this really true? If so, will it not be broadcast? We contacted Fuji Television’s public relations department,
We are not able to provide details about the production of the program.
The sports newspaper reporter mentioned above said, “We are not able to provide details about the production. The sports newspaper reporter mentioned above said, “It is unlikely that this will be the end of the punishment for Fuji Television.
The NPB AWARDS, the annual awards ceremony that concludes this year’s professional baseball season, will be held on November 26. The Rookie of the Year Award, the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP), and the achievements of those who have contributed to the development of the baseball world will be announced, but Fuji Television is likely to be banned from the event as well.
But that is not all. I have heard that there are growing calls within the NPB for Fuji TV to be banned from the event until its coverage of the camps after the new year. If this happens, it will not just be a problem for Fuji TV; the relationship between the NPB and the media could also be called into question.
So how did things get so complicated? A baseball team official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told us the following.