{"id":4611,"date":"2009-07-13T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2009-07-13T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:16:58","slug":"japans-best-known-midnight-radio-program-goes-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/japans-best-known-midnight-radio-program-goes-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Best-known Midnight Radio Program Goes Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4615\" title=\"Logo of Nippon Broadcasting System\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/1242logo.gif\" alt=\"Logo of Nippon Broadcasting System\" width=\"173\" height=\"35\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4616\" title=\"Recochoku's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/logo-recochoku.jpg\" alt=\"Recochoku's Logo\" width=\"139\" height=\"39\" \/><br \/>\nMost Japanese, who are younger than 40 years old, would have listened to this program.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnightnippon.com\/\">Allnight Nippon[J]<\/a>&#8220;, which is aired live every midnight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1242.com\/\">Nippon Broadcasting System(NBS)[J]<\/a> and its affiliate AM radio stations nationwide and has 43-year history, now goes to mobile.<br \/>\nOne of Japan&#8217;s oldest private radio broadcaster NBS and ringtone content provider <a href=\"http:\/\/recochoku.jp\">Reco-choku[J]<\/a> will jointly start the program&#8217;s time-shifted PPP (pay-per-play) service for cellphone users this coming Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe radio program is basically targeting teenagers, and it is not easy for office workers and housewives, who used be the program listeners, to tune in it at midnight.\u00a0\u00a0 By adding an alternative option that allows them to listen at anytime, the broadcaster expects to develop another layer of steady listeners.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4617\" title=\"Allnight Nippon Mobile\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/allnightnipponmobile.jpg\" alt=\"Allnight Nippon Mobile\" width=\"158\" height=\"306\" \/><br \/>\nThe service costs USD1.1 (JPY105 incl. consumption tax) for each episode of the program.\u00a0\u00a0 Available on cellphones from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/english\/\">NTT DoCoMo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/english\/index.html\">KDDI<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/en\/\">Softbank<\/a> and also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willcom-inc.com\/en\/index.html\">Willcom<\/a>&#8216;s PHS.<br \/>\nListening to midnight radio programs used to be a good recreation for a teenager who owns no  TV set in the bedroom, but now everyone has his\/her own and no longer need to depend on a radio to conceal the loneliness before falling asleep.<br \/>\nThe more kinds of media to entertain us there are, the harder legacy media are forced to do something to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Japanese, who are younger than 40 years old, would have listened to this program.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Allnight Nippon[J]&#8220;, which is aired live every midnight on Nippon Broadcasting System(NBS)[J] and its affiliate AM radio stations nationwide and has 43-year history, now goes to mobile. One of Japan&#8217;s oldest private radio broadcaster NBS and ringtone content provider Reco-choku[J]&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/japans-best-known-midnight-radio-program-goes-mobile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Best-known Midnight Radio Program Goes Mobile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,23],"tags":[2622,3082],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-nippon-broadcasting-system","tag-reco-choku","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}