List of Tokyo Broadcasting System announcers explained
Below is a list of current and former broadcast announcers for the Tokyo Broadcasting System, its spin-offs, and predecessor entities.
Current announcers
Male or man
- joined in 1983
- joined in 1988
- joined in 1988
- joined in 1989
- joined in 1989
- joined in 1991
- joined in 1993
- joined in 1993
- joined in 1994
- joined in 1996
- joined in 1996
- joined in 1997
- joined in 1997
- joined in 1998
- joined in 1998
- joined in 1999
- joined in 2001
- joined in 2003
- joined in 2004
- joined in 2004
- joined in 2006
- joined in 2007
- joined in 2007
- joined in 2008
- joined in 2010
- joined in 2013
- joined in 2017
- joined in 2018
- joined in 2019
- joined in 2020
- joined in 2020
- joined in 2021
- joined in 2021
- joined in 2022
Female or woman
- joined in 1987
- joined in 1991
- joined in 1994
- joined in 1995
- joined in 1995
- joined in 1997
- joined in 1998
- joined in
- joined in 2000
- joined in 2000
- joined in 2003
- joined in 2005
- joined in 2006
- joined in 2006
- joined in 2008
- joined in 2009
- joined in 2011
- joined in 2013
- joined in 2014
- joined in 2015
- joined in 2015
- joined in 2016
- joined in 2016
- joined in 2017
- joined in 2017
- joined in 2018
- joined in 2018
- joined in 2018
- joined in 2019
- joined in 2019
- joined in 2019
- joined in 2020
- joined in 2021
- joined in 2022
- joined in 2023
- joined in 2023
Former announcers
Retired announcers
Male
- (1951-1959); now as a narrator, he is in charge of "National Theater" (Mito Komon, Ooka Echizen, etc.). He died in October 1990
- (1954-1986)
- (1955-1985)
- (1955-1992)
- (1955-1983)
- (1967–1979); now as freelance announcer
- (1969-2005); now as Director, Producer, transferred to the entertainment office "CMA (→ Cast Plus)" He also served as managing director, President and Representative Director, and Advisor to Directors. He died in 2013.
- (1972-2006) now as Former NHK announcerlater director of "JNN News Feature", desk of "NEWS23", producer of "World Heritage"
- (1981–2017); now as TBS Radio News Desk
- (1981-2017); now as TBS Radio's news desk and full-time faculty member of the Department of Newspapers, Faculty of Law, Nihon University
- (1988 - 1991); now as Content Business in Bureau
- (1996-2005); now as Production Department Variety Production Department. Currently "COUNT DOWN TV" producer etc.
- (2013 - 2022); now as Pivot video producer
- (2014-2019); now as News Department
- (1986–2021); now as freelance announcer
Female
- (1962-1966)
- (1968-1973); now as Free announcer, essayist, journalist, vice president of Aomori University, professor of the Faculty of Sociology.
- (1968-2003)
- (1983-1990)
- (1993–1999); now as freelance announcer
- (1994–2001)
- (1995–2010); now as tarento and radio personality
- (1996 -2018); now as Secretary's Office
- (1999–2008); now as freelance announcer
- (2001–2012); now lives in Argentina
- (2002–2007); died in 2008
- (2002–2012); now as UNHCR staff
- (2003–2009); now as freelance announcer
- (2005–2012); now as freelance announcer
- (2005–2010); now as freelance announcer
- (2008–2015); now as freelance announcer
- (2009–2014); now as freelance announcer
- (2010–2016)
- (2009–2017); now as a professional soccer player from Urawa Reds
- (2011-2019)
- (2012-2019)
- (2011-2019) now as a former fencing player.
- (2014-2019)
- (2016-2021)