A former female announcer’s outrageous episode about “entertainment of female announcers

Nakai’s 90 million yen trouble” brings into focus the “entertainment of female TV announcers

The January 15 edition of the Shukan Bunshun (weekly magazine) reported the confession of a new “victim” of TV personality Masahiro Nakai’s (52) “90 million yen settlement money trouble” and it has become a hot topic. A Fuji Television staff member who had arranged a drinking party for Nakai and the victim, who was to pay the settlement money, also “entertained” the victim. This case has brought into sharp focus the TV station’s entertainment of sponsors and celebrities at the bar, which is said to be a regular practice for announcers and station employees to attend.

Yutaka Hasegawa, 49, a businessman who joined Fuji as an announcer in April 1999 and has been revealing his inside story without discovery since leaving the company in June ’12, commented on the entertainment in an article published on the news site “Pinzuba NEWS” last December 27, saying, “It has been a very common practice for decades. It is a fact that it has been done as a matter of course for decades,” he commented. He added, “To be honest, when it comes to dining with popular celebrities, many female announcers would rather go willingly. After going to a dinner, they would hold a “debriefing” session among themselves.

Koichi Minato, president of Fuji Television Network, is scheduled to hold his first regular press conference after the new year on February 28. This is the usual schedule, but this year he will hold a reception with the mass media on the last day of January. Even so, it seems that there is an atmosphere of “it would be better to hold the press conference quickly at ……” within the bureau. In addition to the Nakai matter, questions are expected to be asked at the “get-together” about the hospitality issue, and it remains to be seen how President Minato will excuse his bad practice and pass it off.

It is not only Fuji Television. Female announcers from other stations have also confessed about the business entertainment they received when they were announcers at other stations. Miho Ohashi, 46, who joined TV Tokyo in April 2002 and worked there as an ace until December 2005, is now a freelance announcer. on November 8, 2009, as an assistant for the program.

She asked, “Do you want to have a year-end party at work?　Do you want a year-end party culture at work? Ohashi recalls, “To be honest, I thought it was hard when I was a salaryman,” ” It was a time of sexual harassment and power harassment, ……,”“I’m sorry to say this, but there were times when I really thought I was a sacrifice,” and so on. There was a time when I really felt like a sacrifice. There were times when I thought, “Thanks to the salespeople, I’m able to eat my meals, so I’m …… going to put up with it,” he said, candidly revealing his feelings at the time.

There was a report about Minami Tanaka (38), who worked at TBS from April 2009 to September 2002 and is currently active as an actress.

Former female announcer who spoke out against big names

According to a report on a news site after she left the company, “After she left the company, some of our station staff members were setting up nightly ‘drinking parties with Minami’ around Ms. Tanaka, who was very popular at the time, in order to obtain advertising. One time, a drinking party was set up for a local commercial sponsor, but Mr. Tanaka unexpectedly cancelled the party at the last minute.

The sponsor, who had come all the way to Tokyo for the drinking party, got angry and withdrew from the sponsorship. I was surprised to hear that this was true when I asked the people involved about this report. Mr. Tanaka’s decision to go freelance may have been due in part to the fact that he could no longer endure the nightly entertainment he was subjected to.

Even though compliance is becoming more and more strict these days, it would be very difficult for a person to refuse to accept business entertainment offered by his or her boss. In fact, there are many female announcers who are reluctant to refuse because it would affect their position at their current workplace or their work after going freelance. In such a situation, there was a strong person like this.

A former female announcer at a certain station is said to have a strong core, a winning attitude, and never bent over backwards. She was invited to a drinking party with a big-name celebrity with whom she co-starred on a TV program, but she lost her temper when the celebrity made a comment about “lookism” during the conversation. She became enraged when the big-name celebrity made a comment about “lookism” during the conversation. Naturally, everyone around her froze and sent her home.

After that, she had no more luck at work and left the company. However, she is now active in a completely different field, so she must not have had any lingering feelings about being an announcer at all,” said a reporter in charge of broadcasting.

It must have been terrible for her to be forced to sit in on business entertainment and then be forced to put up with abusive language. There is no doubt that the old business practices that still prevail in the industry need to be changed as soon as possible.

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