Forum - View topicINTEREST: Sazae-san Airs for 1st Time in 14 Years With No Sponsors After Fuji TV Scandal
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I Am Audrey, how are you
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So will this affect the program in any way? Just curious, I work in radio in the US and if sponsors bail your show is basically cancelled
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Thespacemaster
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It basically means that it is not getting any sort of funding for the tv network to operate, without the sponsors it will go into ruin. the fact that sazae is airing without any commercials highlights how bad they are in, cause it is the programme block that has the most household views like 10% average. Honestly after this they really should go. they were basically pimping out underage girls to be used and abused and covering them up. THis network company is the very definitiion of a black evil company that use portrayed in anime and other ''Media'' It is like what happened with the bbc and the jmmy scandal. (i wont go into details, look it up it is disgusting). Last edited by Thespacemaster on Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:44 am; edited 1 time in total |
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WANNFH
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Alan45
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If this goes on the most likely outcome is that Fuji TV will go under and the popular shows will be picked up after a short hiatus by the vultures (other networks) picking over its bones. Marginal shows will likely die with the network.
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Orange Hollow
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Kono bangumi wa, goran no sponsa no teikyou de okurishimas-don't
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Beatdigga
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This would be like the ensuing drama with the Murdoch trust suddenly leaving The Simpsons in the lurch with no sponsors. The sheer amount of programming being left out to dry here is crazy.
Granted, as others have said, even if the network goes under, odds are the shows get picked up by whoever’s left over and pick up where they left off. |
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Shay Guy
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You know, it’s not directly relevant to this news, but this does make me wonder what ANN’s style policy is for avoiding confusion when reporting on the network TV Asahi is the flagship station of.
Of note, Sazae-san doesn’t just top the anime charts; it’s pretty much Fuji TV’s top program, period. Honestly, I have a hard time imagining how this ends. I’m in the States, and a major broadcast network just going under isn’t something that’s happened in my lifetime. The closest thing was the merger that produced The CW. DuMont only broadcast for a decade and was off the air before my mom was born; Fuji TV’s been around since the 1950s. If the big shows (some of which have kept the same timeslot for decades) migrate to other networks, where are they going to squeeze them into their lineups? What’s going to broadcast on channel 8 in Kanto and Kansai, channel 1 in Nagoya, etc.? |
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mdo7
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot that there is a ANN in Japan and yeah, I wouldn't want ANN (the Anime News Network) to have a bit of a conflict with ANN (All-Nippon News Network) in Japan. |
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Greed1914
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That is my guess. Stuff that is currently airing is just finishing out a contractual obligation, and other networks will have their choice what to get at preferable terms since the shows will be basically backed into a corner. Lots of collateral damage from something that was entirely avoidable by just acting decently. |
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YagamiBlackstone255
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After what happened to poor Hana Kimura I shouldnt be surprised.
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BadNewsBlues
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While what happened to Hana Kimura was bad.
The allegations here are far worse and not really comparable. |
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Tenchi
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If we're just talking about new episodes airing in their home markets on traditional broadcast TV, I think Sazae-san beats 2020s The Simpsons hands down, both in terms of viewer share and in overall numbers of viewers (the 2023-2024 season of The Simpsons averaged out to only around 1.74 million live viewers per episode). Of course, The Simpsons still airs in many markets outside of the United States and many people now watch it on Disney Plus (and I suspect Disney is preparing to transition all new episodes of The Simpsons to Disney Plus within a few seasons, that recent Disney Plus-exclusive Christmas episode was likely just the beginning of the end of The Simpsons on free broadcast TV) so, even if every advertiser on Fox stopped advertising on the show, I don't think it would be as big of a blow to The Simpsons as the Fuji boycott probably is to Sazae-san, which is still primarily only watched on broadcast television in Japan. |
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Shay Guy
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Good point. I don't know of any IP as big as Sazae-san today that's also as frontend-heavy. |
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