Rookie Koutaro Kamigaki ranked 4th in “Favorite Announcer Ranking”…Fuji TV cannot be honestly pleased with the “complicated situation”.

On December 13, Oricon ranked Fuji Television’s Koutarou Uegaki in 4th place in its “Favorite Male TV announcer Ranking” for 2012, despite being a rookie.

Uegaki has been working as a weathercaster for “Mezamashi Saturday” since July of this year, and has also appeared in the Wednesday corner of “Mezamashi TV” called “Koko Chou” since October.

In the “FNS Akashiya Sanma’s Recommended Announcer GP” broadcast in April, she was chosen as Sanma’s “Recommended Announcer GP” because of her dignified and calm manner despite the fact that she is still in training. He is not handsome by any means, but his presence is outstanding,” said a reporter for a women’s magazine.

(A reporter for a women’s magazine) She was teased about her appearance, saying, “You don’t look good in a T-shirt.

However, if you look at the ranking, you will see that there are a number of TV hosts of “Morning Show” (TV Asahi) such as Shinichi Hatori and Takahiko Fujii, who are the main anchors of “News Zero” (NTV). Compared to them, it is hard to believe that newcomer Uegaki, no matter how much he is a favorite of Sanma, has done so well. ……

Speaking of Uegaki, a video of her being “teased” by a senior announcer about her appearance was spread on SNS in late October, mainly by X and others, and caused a huge firestorm. Criticisms poured in on Fuji Television, with some saying that it was bullying.

In July, “Mezamashi Saturday” posted on YouTube an exchange during a commercial that was not to be broadcast. The announcers Ryusei Ikuta, Kikue Nishiyama, and Kayako Abe, who are in the studio, look at Uegaki, who is on the other end of the broadcast,

They said, “That T-shirt doesn’t look good on you.

I think he would look good in a jinbei.

The video of them teasing Uegaki, saying things like, “Your T-shirt doesn’t suit you,” and “You’d look good in a jinbei,” flared up three months later.

Unusual response with the president’s direct reference

At a regular press conference held in late November, President Koichi Minato of Fuji Television explained directly to the press about the Uegaki incident. Nishiyama, who was hosting the press conference, also apologized directly to Uegaki, which was an unusual response.

Oricon announced that the survey period for this ranking was from November 5 to November 11. In other words, the survey was conducted from November 5 to November 11, when Uegaki’s “teasing” was gaining momentum among the public.

However, Uegaki is not the only announcer that Fuji Television has been “troubled” with. Nagisa Watanabe, who left Fuji Television in August of this year, has made a controversial confession.

In an essay published in NEWS POST SEVEN on December 9, Watanabe looked back on her time as a bureau announcer and wrote, “I thought ‘labor was a punishment. In response, the Internet and other media began to criticize him, saying that he violated the Labor Standards Law and that he concentrated too much on popular announcers.

Well, for Fuji, the Uegaki controversy has finally calmed down, and yet he is the focus of attention again in the “Favorite Announcer Ranking,” and at the same time, Watanabe’s confession is becoming a topic of conversation. The station must be thinking, “Announcers shouldn’t stand out.

Fuji Television was a pioneer in the “female announcer boom” of the 1980s, when it promoted announcers as celebrities by bringing to the fore the likes of Miho Nakai, Akiko Yagi, and Keiko Kono. The time has come for such a TV station to bemoan the flames of announcing.

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