TV Asahi’s “Nasdaq scandal”: “Only demotion” without announcing names, and why “other stations would fire them”?

After resigning, he joined a major entertainment agency.

In January of this year, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation announced the resignation of the station’s director under his own name for improperly receiving approximately 1.16 million yen in entertainment expenses.

Also in ’23, a male manager in his 40s at Yomiuri Television, an affiliate of NTV, was dismissed on disciplinary grounds after it was announced that he had improperly received a total of 13.83 million yen as program production expenses. Since he has the intention to repay the money, no criminal charges will be filed.

The man gave receipts for his own meals and drinks to an outside production company hired for his music program, had the company charge Yomiuri TV a padded bill under the guise of “additional production expenses,” and received a total of 8.77 million yen in cash as kickbacks. In addition, the company also claimed a total of 5.06 million yen in unauthorized charges, including unaccounted-for “pooled funds.

A Yomiuri TV program official revealed, “This man is also a good TV man.

The man was also an excellent TV man. After a certain point, the use of expenses became very strict within the company, and he could only spend a very small amount of money on food and beverages. It is said that this P was entertaining executives of major entertainment agencies and others in order to book high-profile artists for his programs. In order to raise the quality of the program, he was raising back taxes through a bitterly contested means. There was some sympathy for him, as the entertainment industry is a place where you have to have a certain amount of “connections” to make it work. I heard that he has been working for a major entertainment agency since he left the company, partly because of the value of the relationship he had with the company.

The former Yomiuri TV employee received a larger amount of money for inappropriate use, but Nas D was also subjected to “power harassment. It is not surprising that the company is being “lenient” in allowing him to remain in the company with only a demotion.

If he makes full use of his skills, there is no doubt that he may return to the stage like a “phoenix. For that reason, it is regrettable that the scandal brought an end to a well-known program.