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Nikkan Gendai Updated: 2024/08/18 06:00 The heated battles continue at Koshien High School Baseball Stadium. However, there are no live broadcasts by female announcers on television or radio. Although the Alps reports are often done by female announcers from each school’s local broadcasting station, the main commentators and commentators are all men. At the Paris Olympics, all events were covered by male announcers, except for the opening and closing ceremonies. Even during the women’s rhythmic gymnastics and artistic swimming, the older male announcers were shouting things that didn’t suit them, like, “Wonderful! A performance of beauty!” Why are there no female sports announcers? Actually, it’s not completely nonexistent. Sawada Ayaka was the NHK announcer who covered the West Tokyo Tournament final between Nihon University Third High School and Waseda Jitsugyo. Last year, I covered two games at Koshien on the radio. Akita Asahi Broadcasting announcer Takada Miki will also be reporting on the Akita tournament’s match against Kanaashi Nono Farm, as she did last year. ■Female announcers’ live commentary has been heavily criticized In the past, Akae Tamao also did live commentary for the Koshien tournament on TV when she was still with Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. That was also a legendary comeback. This is the 1999 match between Shinminato and Komatsu, which lyricist Aku Yu covered in his song “Poem of Koshien: To You Who Will Not Be Defeated.” At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, TV Asahi announcer Miyajima Yasuko provided live coverage of the women’s marathon in which Arimori Yuko won the bronze medal. “Despite the huge buzz, there have been almost no live TV commentaries by female announcers at either Koshien or the Olympics since then. The reason was that the bashing was severe. Even the Mainichi Shimbun and the Tokyo Shimbun were scathing, with comments such as “The woman’s voice is noisy” and “It’s full of out-of-place adjectives and selfish exclamations.” One weekly magazine even said, “It’s outrageous for a woman to call a player by his first name.” This has caused TV stations to shrink away completely.” (Media Analyst)
However, I don’t think that male announcers who are always screaming “GOAL” during soccer broadcasts, or who emotionally repeat “The summer of the baseball players is over” after a losing high school team, are suited to sports broadcasts. “These days, viewers don’t feel uncomfortable hearing a female announcer give a live commentary. In fact, it has been highly praised for being not noisy and easy to listen to. However, television stations are not trying to train female announcers who can provide live commentary. Unlike reading a script for the news or a narration, sports commentary relies on improvisation and quick thinking, so it requires an immense amount of experience and knowledge. It takes time to become a full-fledged individual. The broadcasting industry still has a strong belief that female announcers are at their best when they are young, so rather than giving them experience in sports broadcasting, they try to use them in variety shows while they are young. “Even if there are female announcers who want to be sports broadcasters, they don’t have the chance to gain experience,” said the aforementioned analyst. Television stations are running campaigns to promote the SDGs, and one of their goals is “gender equality.” If they are serious about this, I would like to see female commentators not only at Koshien, but also at professional baseball and soccer tournaments. I think in sports like golf and figure skating it’s actually easier to hear women’s voices. (Columnist Umihara Kamina).
At present, there are no female announcers who can provide proper sports commentary, so it can’t be helped. The criticism that it’s our fault for not training them may be true.
Because it’s half-baked. If you watch the live commentary, you can see that if they cut corners and scream heartily about goals scored and goals conceded, the guys will watch.
I once heard a woman commentating on a baseball game a long time ago, and it was so crazy that she called hits grounders to left field and I couldn’t listen. I think that woman was probably frozen out after a day.
Sports commentary requires a ridiculous amount of research and preparation, so it’s probably better to have him do something where his face is on display than doing that kind of behind-the-scenes work.
I feel like I can hear the tension in his voice. Also, there are some men who are just noisy and not considered good. I think the person who was commentating on the Saitama prefecture preliminaries on Teletama was the best, with a calm voice.
They’re used to it from boat racing and horse racing, so if they want to do it, they should just go ahead and do it. It’s ridiculous how you’re nitpicking.
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