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Long running overnight show ends... in Japan!

davideduardo

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Legendary Late-Night Radio Show for Japan’s Truckers Ends After 52 Years on the Air​

"Strange though it feels to say, Millennials are possibly the last generation to understand the nostalgia for recurring radio shows. I may not have understood Lake Wobegon was a fictional place, but there was something comforting in knowing there'd always be a soft, friendly voice on the air the same hour each week. Radio, though, is a dying medium, one almost entirely supplanted by streaming music, subscription-model satellite radio, and even podcasts. One of the many casualties of this transition has been Japan's long-running, ultra late-night broadcast for truckers sponsored by truck-maker Hino, which after its March 27 show pulled the plug on Hino Midnight Graffiti Hashire! Kayōkyoku."


Note that the article mentions the decline in use of broadcast radio as the main reason for ending the show.
 
To be fair, the majority of the stations listed seemed high up on the dial. A lot of the MW stations in Japan are high powered, NHK stations, whose powers could probably override RFI. Some of theose particular stations can even be heard in the US and Western Canada during the winter.

I'm not sure how much interference there would be on 1332, 1404, 1350 and 1314 khz in Japan (the other three are lower in the band), but if it's anything like the US, it could be enough to make one turn to another station or broadcast band. There there may be truck-induced RFI, too.
 
boombox4 said:
To be fair, the majority of the stations listed seemed high up on the dial. A lot of the MW stations in Japan are high powered, NHK stations, whose powers could probably override RFI. Some of theose particular stations can even be heard in the US and Western Canada during the winter.

I'm not sure how much interference there would be on 1332, 1404, 1350 and 1314 khz in Japan (the other three are lower in the band), but if it's anything like the US, it could be enough to make one turn to another station or broadcast band. There there may be truck-induced RFI, too.
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I can hear 1314 and 1350 regularly hear in Alaska. Even have a QSL from 1350
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I can hear 1314 and 1350 regularly hear in Alaska. Even have a QSL from 1350
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The whole AM band in Japan has about 250 stations in a nation of 120 million.

California, with 40 million people has 252 AM stations. So Japan has about 60% fewer stations per capita than the US does. Even at higher frequencies, stations like 1314 (OBC) and 1350 (RCC) with 50 and 20 kw non directional respectively will have very nice coverage.
 
So it must be the aging out of the truckers, or RFI, or both perhaps.

I still hear Radio Nikkei on Shortwave, heard it a couple hours ago playing some older pop hits (2000's - 2010's). I'm guessing it's for mariners, and maybe SWLs, along with tradespeople in other parts of East Asia. The SW bug really took hold in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, probably as much if not more than it did here. There probably is still an audience for such broadcasts. NHK Radio Japan still broadcasts in Japanese to other parts of the world, too.
 
boombox4 said:
So it must be the aging out of the truckers, or RFI, or both perhaps.

I still hear Radio Nikkei on Shortwave, heard it a couple hours ago playing some older pop hits (2000's - 2010's). I'm guessing it's for mariners, and maybe SWLs, along with tradespeople in other parts of East Asia. The SW bug really took hold in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, probably as much if not more than it did here. There probably is still an audience for such broadcasts. NHK Radio Japan still broadcasts in Japanese to other parts of the world, too.
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NHK Worlkd Radio is still on SW in more then half a dozen other languages, including english
 
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