Finally, there’s a sense of calmness regarding the reshuffling of announcers appearing on live wide shows and news segments due to the April reorganization. “There’s a viewership habit among audiences, especially for morning and evening programs, where they tend to stick to the same shows for a long time. Amidst this, what’s become a topic among some viewers is the transfer of Minami Moriyama, a fourth-year announcer at TV Asahi (25). She has been selected as the main caster for ‘Super J Channel’ starting this spring, and her remarkable promotion has sparked astonishment,” says a television magazine writer. TV Asahi has been known since the era of Mariko Dō (42) to assign female announcers to flagship programs like ‘Music Station’ immediately after their recruitment, emphasizing the use of fresh talent more than other stations. Moriyama was appointed to the early morning show ‘Good! Morning’ shortly after joining TV Asahi in April 2021. “After handling ‘Good! Morning’ for a year, she was then selected for the nationwide broadcast ‘Hayabusa Shinichi Morning Show.’ It was surprising even among female announcers at other stations when Moriyama was promoted to ‘Morning Show’ by replacing Chi Haru Saito (27), who had been the assistant. In ‘Morning Show,’ which features strong-willed male commentators such as Tetsuya Tamagawa, Ryojū Ishihara, and Kazuma Nagashima, Moriyama quickly established rapport. She was also adored by Hayabusa-san,” says a TV Asahi insider. On social media and among fans, “During the weather segment before the end of the program, Moriyama earnestly doing the one-point stretch instructed by meteorologist Shinwa Kataoka was a hit.” “Forget about Tamagawa-san and the older men, I just want to see Moriyama on screen all the time.”