After 33 years—since its inception back in 1986—TV Asahi’s popular music performance program “Music Station” will be moved from its current 8:00 PM time slot.
Starting October 2019, “Music Station” will begin its broadcast an hour later at 9:00 PM. With the new time slot, the show will also be updated with the goal of having a “more fun” and “more luxurious” live music program.
Updates to the format will include special collaborations and cover stages, interactions between artists and guest actors and athletes, and plans for a live voting system.
TV Asahi’s New Friday Broadcast Schedule
Starting off TV Asahi’s Friday night programming block at 7:00 PM is “Zawatsu! Friday”, a talk-variety program that began broadcast in April of this year.
In the 8:00 PM slot, when “Music Station” is currently broadcast, will air talk-variety program “Matsuko & Ariyoshi Krisome Tengoku.”
As previously mentioned, “Music Station” will be pushed back an hour to 9:00 PM—definitely an interesting decision with regards to the idol-dominated music landscape and laws of minors working past 9PM.
All aforementioned schedule changes will begin October 2019.
source: AramaJapan
so they are finally doing this, its not that surprising and i saw it coming years ago with their ratings dropping more and more each year and its obvious that they dont want Music station with its current ratings to occupy 8pm golden time slot after all they go some month with only 1 music station episode per month sometimes they go a whole month with no episode its obvious they kept the show there because of tradition but it wasn't as profitable for tv asahi as it once was. Music shows are really dying arent they Music station was the last Music show which occupied a golden time slot most of the air on midnight or earlier in the day.
Still it doesn't look like they are giving up on music station considering its still in the golden time slot just at the end of it, i truly taught that when they will move the show they would move it out of the golden time slot to 10pm or later so things still look promising for Mste.
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