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Mezamashi TV

Field	Value
image	めざまスカイ(The “Mezama-Sky” Studio).JPG
caption	The Mezamashi TV studio set used from 2012
genre	{{Plainlist
runtime	155 minutes
open_theme	"朝、月面も笑っている" (Asa, Getsumen mo waratteiru) by DISH
country	Japan
language	Japanese
company	Fuji Television
network	FNS (Fuji TV)
first_aired
last_aired	present

Breakfast television
News Mezamashi TV is a Japanese breakfast television program broadcast every weekday on Fuji TV from 4:55 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Mezamashi is a form of the Japanese verb mezamasu (to wake up).

Mezamashi TV has several spin-off shows such as (replacing Meza News which ended in March 2014), which is aired before Mezamashi TV for viewers in the Kanto region starting at 4:00 am (stations in some areas will air Meza News at 5:00 am) which ended in March 2018 and Mezamashi Saturday, the Saturday supplement of Mezamashi TV which airs at a later time from 6:00 to 8:30 am, and Mezamashi 8 which is a replacement to Tokudane! from March 29, 2021.

History

In the first half of the 1990s, several news magazine shows of Fuji TV in the morning were discontinued after a short period because of low television ratings. The new show featured two presenters, Norikazu Otsuka and Akiko Yagi. Otsuka was a freelance presenter who had been a presenter at NHK. Mezamashi TV was first broadcast on April 1, 1994.

In 1997, Natsuko Kojima was appointed as an additional main newscaster. In 2003, Aya Takashima was appointed as a new main newscaster.

Segments

Kyo no Uranai CountDown!

Kyo no Uranai CountDown! is a fortune-telling segment. This segment has continued since the beginning of Mezamashi TV.

Kyo no Wanko

Kyo no Wanko is a segment that shows interesting dogs in Japan. This segment has been continuing since 1994. This part is narrated by Kikue Nishiyama.

Main presenters

Norikazu Otsuka (April 1994 – November 2011)
Toshihiro Ito (November 2011 – March 2012, October 2024 – present)
Masaharu Miyake (April 2012 – September 2024)
Yūmi Nagashima
Yōko Ozawa (September 2015 – September 2016)
Shinichi Karube

References

(13 January 2021). "『とくダネ！』3月末で22年の歴史に幕小倉智昭「席を譲る時が来たようです」".
(6 November 2011). "Announcer Otsuka Norikazu diagnosed with leukemia". Tokyograph.

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