Year 2007
Comments made by the former President, Genichi Hashimoto (resigned 24 January 2008)
December
Looking back over the past year
On NHK’s contributions to society over the past year
On the 58th
Kohaku Utagassen (Red and White Year-End Song Festival)
On progress in the collection of receiving fees and court orders for payment
On the expansion of receiving fee exemptions for the disabled
On the restructuring and consolidation of NHK affiliates
On NHK’s budget for the next fiscal year
On the revision of the Broadcast Law now being deliberated in the Diet
On your term in office as the President of NHK, which expires next January
On the opinion of the Board of Governors that they have an impression that engineers tend to outnumber others at NHK
November
On the ABU General Assembly in Tehran
On the start of broadcasting the Premier League, the world’s top professional football league
On special features related to Japan’s lunar probe,
Kaguya
On the event,
Oshiri Kajirimushi to Odoro!
(Dance with the Bottom-Biting Bugs!)
On
NHK Theater Collection 2008
On the diffusion of digital satellite broadcasting passing the 30 million mark
On a steering team launched by the Board of Governors in connection with the next corporate plan
On the coming
Kohaku Utagassen
(Red and White Year-End Song Festival)
On the budget and corporate plan for the next fiscal year
On the series of scandals involving the professional boxer, Daiki Kameda, and his family
On NHK General TV’s second place ranking in prime time viewing from 19:00 p.m. to 22:00 p.m. in the first half of the broadcasting year
On the progress of court orders for receiving-fee payment outside the Tokyo metropolitan area and Kinki Region
On the term of office of the President of NHK, which expires next January
October
On the prospects for the latter half of the 2007 fiscal year
On the progress in the collection of receiving fees and court orders for payment
On a report in a weekly magazine that NHK will reallocate a fund for stable financial management and the costs of digitalization for use in lowering receiving fees.
On the relationship between the Board of Governors and the Executive Board, which were earlier referred to as “two boards” by the President of NHK
According to the September-11 minutes of the Board of Governors, Chairman Shigetaka Komori said that NHK should pay more attention than usual to its programming during the election period because programs such as historical features might have bearing on sensitive political issues. This could be taken as intervention in broadcasting. Don’t you find this inappropriate?
The minutes of the Board of Governors’ meetings contain hardly any discussion of the next Corporate Plan. This is not full transparency.
On the 34th Japan Prize, an international educational program contest
On digital terrestrial TV broadcasting and its diffusion
On the plan to raise the height of Tokyo Tower and the development of the new Tokyo Tower
On not broadcasting the decisive match in professional baseball’s Central League on terrestrial TV
On the recent scandal involving a sumo wrestling stable master
September
Summing up this year’s special summer programming
On the NHK Special,
Working Poor,
which was recently awarded the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association) Prize.
On the call to viewers and listeners for comments and suggestions on NHK’s Corporate Plan 2008-2012
On the progress in drafting the next Corporate Plan
On the suggestion by the Chairman of the Board of Governors that the public announcement of the new Corporate Plan might be postponed to October
On the Executive Board’s concept of the organizational reform
On NHK’s campaign to promote corporate identity (CI)
On the state of receiving fee payment
On termination of the BS analog Hi-Vision service
On the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ instruction to give consideration to development of a Super Hi-Vision format in the budget plan for the next fiscal year
July
On the recent fee-collection and payment reminders
Dealing with people who have not yet concluded TV contracts
Effect of scandals involving NHK employees on fee payments
The urgent dialogue carried out in the wake of the recent scandals
Review of disciplinary measures
On the final report by the compliance committee
Hi-Vision lunar camera heads off to the moon
On the
2007 ABU Voyage to the Future
Creating a new corporate message
June
On recent developments concerning the payment of NHK receiving fees
On enabling more viewers to receive NHK World TV in Washington DC
On disaster-related datacasts on NHK’s digital terrestrial channel
On the Open House of the NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
On the Asian Hi-Vision (HDTV) International Co-Production Project
Questions from Reporters
May
On the new Executive Board and drafting of the next Corporate Plan
On comments from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) that the Ministry is considering raising the fee for radio wave use by broadcasters
On payment of NHK receiving fees and court-issued payment reminders
On dealing with people who have yet to conclude receiving fee contracts with NHK
On the Open House of the NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
On the 2007 Report on Audience Services
On the number of digital terrestrial TV sets surpassing 20 million
On the arrest of a 41-year-old NHK announcer early this month on charges of indecent assault
April
At the start of a new broadcasting year
New programs in the new broadcasting year starting in April
On the reconsideration of “broadcast orders” in the law revision
On revising the law so that some members of the Board of Governors can be full-time
On the clause on preventing the recurrence of problems in the revision of the Broadcast Law
Recent developments on receiving fee payment and payment reminders issued by the court
On our pledges for fiscal 2007
Shibuya-de-Domo
(Welcome to Shibuya)
Allegations of sexual harassment committed by the head of NHK Kumamoto Station
March
NHK’s view of the idea of a bill to make the receiving fee payment mandatory
Do you mean that the idea of making the receiving fee payment mandatory in the revised Broadcast Law might have to be abandoned?
What is your view of the recent replacement of the head of MIC’s Broadcast Policy Section?
Debate on the revision of the Broadcast Law in the wake of the scandal involving the TV program,
Digging Up Facts: Encyclopedia II
Recent development regarding receiving fee contracts
Court-issued payment reminders
Court-issued payment reminders in other areas
The presentation of the 58th NHK Culture Awards
The
Hooray for Freshmen
Campaign
Limiting participation for live-studio program recordings to people who pay their NHK receiving fees
February
The High Court ruling on the lawsuit against ETV
Recent developments regarding the “receiving fee”
Responses to the court orders for fee-payment
Broadcasting schedule for the 2007 American Major League Baseball (MLB) season
Nationwide open-studio programs scheduled for the fiscal 2007
Collaborative study between NHK and public broadcasters’ research institutes in Europe
36th NHK Program Production Technology Exhibition opens to the public
January
Resolutions for the New Year and an overview of the programs aired over the Year-end and the New Year period
Details of the incident regarding DJ OZMA’s performance
Measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future
The reaction from viewers
Has any disciplinary action been taken against the staff and others involved in this program?
Do you believe that DJ OZMA’s performance had not clearly contravened NHK’s program standards?
Comments from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications for a 20% cut in NHK receiving fees if payment is to be made mandatory under the law
The idea that NHK scales back its services and organization if lower fees are introduced
The new international TV service for non-Japanese viewers that is being discussed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Payment of receiving fees and court orders for payment
Results of the nationwide investigation on NHK’s operations that were announced at the end of 2006
Commencement of data broadcasts for earthquakes and tsunamis
Effective use of NHK Archives
Providing programs on-demand from the NHK Archives over the Internet
Rejuvenation of the NHK Studio Park
Morning drama serial for the latter part of the fiscal year (Oct.2007 – Mar.2008)
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