Geezer wrote:

Nope. KTSF looked old and faded for me as well.

A MacArthur reference?

Itazura ichiban wrote:

Were we the only ones bothered by poor broadcast quality last night?

I have to check my DVR, but did the problem show up the entire night?

It looked like a satellite problem (tiling and cut-outs etc.). We checked the other channels and they were fine. I assume it was KTSF's "feed".
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Any news to what follows Iron Chef (I mean of course Teppan Shojo Akane)?

Something sophisticated and mature, I am sure.
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Itazura ichiban wrote:

Something sophisticated and mature, I am sure.

I hope they didn't have that in a long long time

NOTHING is going to follow Teppan Shoujo Akane. The announcement just said that starting next week, there'll only be two subtitled shows, starting at 9 PM (Homemaker and Atsuhime). I couldn't catch whether this is a permanent change. I'm so upset! I wondered why they didn't show a preview or promo last week...

Will writing Fuji TV have any affect? I suppose not.

Do any of the Japanese channels available by satellite or cable in the Bay Area have any subtitled content at all? I may be at a point where I could sign up, soonish.
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wintersweet wrote:

NOTHING is going to follow Teppan Shoujo Akane. The announcement just said that starting next week, there'll only be two subtitled shows, starting at 9 PM (Homemaker and Atsuhime). I couldn't catch whether this is a permanent change. I'm so upset! I wondered why they didn't show a preview or promo last week... Will writing Fuji TV have any affect? I suppose not. Do any of the Japanese channels available by satellite or cable in the Bay Area have any subtitled content at all? I may be at a point where I could sign up, soonish.

I too am mourning the (yes, permanent) loss of yet another hour (now only from 9pm to 11:30pm) of J-TV on Saturday evenings. The fact that they had not announced anything before this evening and seemingly threw on that generic variety show at the last minute (yet another with Eji Wentz...how many is he on anyway?) suggests to me that it may have been a sudden decision. I haven't checked the reliable sources (e.g., the "Mon" magazine...and not the FujiTV website) to see if this change in the schedule had been in the works for awhile.

With regard to other possible sources of subtitled J-TV, well....on ImaginAsianTV, they have plenty of subtitled anime, but very little non-anime. In IATV's first year or so they did show four subtitled doramas - Bewitched in Tokyo, Melody of the Heart, What's Wrong With Money, and a very badly done vampire one that I can't remember the name of - and they showed them over and over again. Other than that they have shown a number of subtitled movies...again, over and over again. But even if this would satisfy you, the problem is that IATV is apparently only on Comcast Cable in San Francisco...yes ONLY in SF and ONLY on Comcast (not on satellite TV). So if you live in Fremont: Tough Luck!

Other than that, you could pay an arm and a leg to get TVJapan added to your cable or satellite service (i.e., only a leg if you already have cable or satellite service), but I've heard that subtitling only appears on the taiga dorama. And I've heard the rest of the programming is mostly stuff from NHK 1 and 2 with occasional stuff from minor networks like AsahiTV...i.e. not Fuji or TBS, and NONE of it subtitled.

Wintersweet, I'm afraid you're gonna hafta move to LA or Hawaii to get your subtitled dorama addiction met. Or if you know someone who lives in either of those two places, and they have a high speed internet connection, you could ask them to be a Slingbox "host" for you.

Other than that, two words: Bittorrent and D-addicts

Now, if you'll excuse me, Geezer and I are gonna go get drunk and talk about the good ole days of JTV on KTSF (just 10 years ago). Anybody want to join us?

I knew that the schedule change would get people to revive this thread.

Trying to cheer us up.

They gotta have more Japanese stuff to show, they're just being crowded out by more vocal minorities. Look at how many different kinds of programming KTSF tries to offer. If one nationality is writing letters and pounding on their doors and the other nationality is being polite and hoping everything works out...well, guess who wins?

Does anyone know the contact addys for KTSF?
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Yeah, who do we write? KTSF? FujiTV? Both? I think my Japanese friend is willing to write them an e-mail in Japanese, too. Last night he was complaining that the first show was something that would have been a great way to introduce different regions of Japan to non-Japanese, and he really wished it had been subtitled.

I'm so not moving to Hawaii or LA, thanks. I just wish there were something I could watch each week at the same time as my friends. Downloaded fansubs are just not the same.

Eh, I gotta get fluent, but to do that I really need to go there and study, and I don't have the money right now.

BAH!

Pass the shochu, Andru.
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I remember back in 2001 there use to be 2 drama's one at 7:30 and the other at 11:00 now theres none. The mandarins get an extra hour of programming

I recall the Saturday schedule in 1995 was something like:

7:00-8:00 Subtitled drama
8:00-8:30 Asadora
8:30-9:30 Taiga drama
9:30-10:30 First hour of 2-hr special (later Iron Chef was shown in this time slot)
10:30-11:00 TTVUSA programming (NHK news/Miemasuka)
11:00-12:00 Second hour of 2-hr special


My how things have changed...

I dunno if moving to L.A. would help. Just a couple years ago on channel 18 we had an asadora every morning M-F followed by "San-pun cooking" and every Sunday night you had "Hey Hey Music Champ" followed by a dorama. Music Champ and the drama were both shown without subs. Then at 9 pm every Sunday night was another drama with subs. Now all they show is the 9pm drama, everything else is gone.

wintersweet wrote:

Pass the shochu, Andru.

OK, here ya go...you might wanna wipe off the top, if you're a germ freak. We're swigging it straight from the bottle. Oh, and here's some osembe to munch on. The whitish puffy-looking ones are mochi flavored, my favorite. Go ahead...enryo shinaide!

Now, Jackclark and Dochira were just saying how the Saturday schedule usta run from like 7pm allllll the way to midnite..... Yeah, I remember that. I think of the mid-90's as the "golden days" of JTV on KTSF. During the weekend there were sooooo many hours to enjoy! On Sunday evenings, Tokyo TV also expanded their hours from 7pm to past 10pm, until 11 or maybe midnite too? Remember "Papa Survival" at 9pm?

Gaijinmark, on KTSF I also remember watching a morning dorama on weekdays! Yeah! It ran from like 7:15 to 7:30, and I then had to run out the door to catch my bus! It wasn't subtitled but I could figure out the story fairly well. I recently found an episode of one of these doramas on some very old videotape I ran across. What a treasure!

Oh, and Gaijinmark, you're right about LA's channel 18. I went to their website to look at the schedule, and there isn't much JTV at all!!! However, there IS still the morning news show: FCI's "Morning Eye," the same one we get here. I then checked out the KIKU website and thank God, they still have plenty of JTV in their schedule much of it subtitled......although no doramas from Fuji Television, as far as I could tell. Hawaii also has the Nippon Golden Network pay channel, but I've never been able to find their schedule online.

I've already known that the New York City-area channel that usta show alot of JTV, now only shows the FCI non-subtitled programming...the same stuff on ImaginAsian TV. So, it looks like for us subtitled dorama addicts, moving to Hawaii is our only real solution......short of bittorrenting like crazy (and risk beng cut off by your ISP for hogging the bandwidth) or finally becoming fluent in nihongo and moving to Japan, that is.

Which reminds me: Wintersweet, weren't you going to get a degree in TESOL and then move to Japan? What happened? I take it you didn't move to Japan but bid you get the degree?

Itazura ichiban, so you think the schedule change is due to pressure from other language groups demanding KTSF to give them more airtime? And not because there is too little demand for JTV?

Oh-oh, looks like we need another bottle...... Hey! Who finished off the mochi osembe!!! I told ya they were my favorite! You coulda left at least one for me!

I forgot to mention that on Sunday nights they used to show "Ainori" and a game show "Trivia" which I loved!! (Well, actually I loved Megumi and her large, um, er, "eyes" yeah, that's it!)

Sorry, Andru, you were right about how tasty the mochi ones were!

Yes, I got my degree last summer (thanks for asking!). I ran into a couple glitches with the moving to Japan plan, though, because there aren't any relevant jobs for Mr. Wintersweet there. Oops. However, I'm also trying to finish a previously-suspended MA in Asian Studies at Stanford, and that involves research that I may be able to conduct in Japan. So if I'm lucky, I'll be going this fall for a little while. Not the same as getting to live there a while, which I still want to do, but ... I have to figure out how first!

Now back to enjoying my AC .... I'm so not ever moving to Hawaii. My friend just moved back from there and he said it was at least 80 every single day. Paradise for most people, but I'm a cool-weather gal, thanks very much. Oh well, time to fire up Transmission.
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Andru wrote:

Itazura ichiban, so you think the schedule change is due to pressure from other language groups demanding KTSF to give them more airtime? And not because there is too little demand for JTV?

In retrospect, KTSF seems to just play the programming that Fuji-TV provides, although the extent of that programming may be dictated by KTSF's marketing analysis.

It's probably best to contact Fuji-TV (Fuji Telecast and Production Co.) on this.
http://www.fuji-tv.com/us/aboutus.htm
[email protected]
1301 Post Street, Suite 102
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel: (415) 775-1311 -- Fax: (415) 775-0246
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- Douglas

I'm going to the Eddie Izzard performance in SF tomorrow evening, so if KTSF runs some kind of "Sorry, we'll add more Japanese shows again! Love, FujiTV!" message, do let me know.

(I know, I know, not going to happen.)

I *did* e-mail them, though, and I hope some other people did too (politely, of course). My Japanese friends said they were going to write in, using Japanese, but I don't know if they did.
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Does anyone know why KTSF stopped showing the 8:30 Drama's and now only have Home Maker, and Atsu Hime on Saturdays'?

MonsterZero-65 wrote:

Does anyone know why KTSF stopped showing the 8:30 Drama's and now only have Home Maker, and Atsu Hime on Saturdays'?

It's probably pure economics. In the last year or two, the shows they aired in their 8:00 slot were not very good. They even showed some old movies that were just plain bad or pretty depressing. I remember one war movie: the print was so bad, you could barely read the subtitles. I really miss the asadoras. They were the main reason I tuned in.

Too many people complained about Teppan Shoujo Akane and Kirakira Kenshui.



Seriously, they have got to have other programs to choose from?
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