Broadcaster NTV has finally unseated Fuji TV in the ratings race (Kanto region). For seven years in a row, Fuji TV ranked #1 in the golden time (7pm-10pm), prime time (7pm-11pm), and entire day (6am-midnight) categories, but NTV took the top spot in all three for 2011.

For golden time and prime time, NTV had an average rating of 12.6%, 0.1% ahead of ( Read more... )

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Nippon Television Network (NTV) broadcast around eight minutes of a static image by mistake on Wednesday night during a broadcast of “Goodbye, Our Kindergarten” due to a technical problem.

An NTV public relations spokesman said that the glitch occurred about an hour into the broadcast of the drama, at around 10 p.m. According to NTV, the image was ( Read more... )

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