Hiroko Ogura, Former TBS Announcer, Reveals the “True Reason” for Leaving TBS for the First Time

Special Interview
Active in “Rank Kingdom,” “Tetsuya Chikushi NEWS23,” “Good Morning Whale,” etc.
Became a manager in his mid-40s and lost himself in a job unfamiliar to the COVID-19 crisis. ……

Became the first “Sermon Room” on “Love in the Park.

I’m used to being photographed in motion, but it’s embarrassing to be photographed in a certain pose. It makes me nervous.

Hiroko Ogura, 50, a freelance announcer, smiles wryly. Ogura left TBS at the end of last year. When asked to write her goals for the future on a piece of colored paper, she wrote in vigorous characters, “I want to speak for the rest of my life.

“To be a speaker for the rest of my life.

Ogura was active in a wide range of programs, including “Rank Kingdom,” “Tetsuya Chikushi NEWS23,” and “Ohayo Whale. She spoke for two hours about her life as a female TV announcer at TBS, where she spent 27 years since joining the company in April 1997, and the real reason why she left the company.

Ogura first became interested in the female announcing profession when she was in the early grades of elementary school.

The first time I became interested in the female announcing profession was when I was in early elementary school,” she said. What caught my attention were the female announcers in their flowery outfits who were talking with the celebrities. In other programs, they read the news or presided over the event as hosts. I felt it was ‘unfair’ that they were happily doing various jobs. I felt.

From elementary school through high school, she was involved in volunteer activities and loved leading the members of Christmas parties and other events. She also enjoyed public speaking, and her interest in female TV announcers grew.

When I was a student at Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin University, I was a part-timer in the then-new program “Koi no Karafutsu” (Love Commotion) on Nippon Television Network Corporation. I was working part-time at an advertising agency, and an employee invited me, saying, ‘They are looking for college girls for the program, so you should go. I was in a meek mood to meet Akashiya Sanma, so I appeared on the first episode of “From Love.

When I said that confessions from men were “bogus,” Sanma said, “Don’t you feel sorry for men! and he tsked at ……. It was the first memorable “Sermon Room,” and it made me realize how much fun television can be.

Are you serious?”

With job hunting looming, Ogura begins attending announcer school. However–.

The course cost about 30,000 yen for three months, but the instructor was very strict with me. He would say, ‘The tuition is out of your own pocket, so it’s OK.’ I would show up late and bring my ski boards to the school because I was going on a trip the next day. He scolded me, “Are you really going to do this? I was scolded. That’s when I took a leap of faith.

I checked the TV news programs every day and read all the national newspapers. Thanks to that, even though I had never read a newspaper before, I was able to grasp the world from multiple perspectives.