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TV Asahi announcer Nia Suzuki, who has served as sub-MC on “Music Station” for four years, announced on her X account on September 4, 2026 that she is leaving the show. The eighth sub-MC will reportedly be revealed at a later date. On 5ch’s Geinou/Sports Breaking News+ board, discussion centered less on her departure itself and more on 81-year-old Tamori’s advancing age, the show’s sagging ratings, and the full lineup of past MCs and sub-MCs, with plenty of users speculating about who might replace her.
TV Asahi’s Nia Suzuki Announces Departure as “Music Station” Sub-MC, Looks Back on Four Years: “With Tamori…”
Nia Suzuki (26), who has served as sub-MC on TV Asahi’s “Music Station” for four years, updated her X account on the 4th to announce she is graduating from the show. Looking back on her time there, she said, “I loved matching the speed at which I raised my mic with Tamori’s.”
Suzuki wrote, “I’m writing to let you know that I’ll be graduating from Music Station, which I’ve been part of for four years.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's the part that actually changes — made me realize the difference from CDTV (the rival music show that rotates hosts).
1st — Hiroshi Sekiguchi
2nd — Mari Yoshimura
Tamori is really the 3rd.
Was there really a Mari Yoshimura era?
Re: #28
You're mixing it up with 'Yoru no Hit Studio' (´・ω・｀)
Though I stopped watching a long time ago.
He's at the age where he could just trip while walking normally, break a bone, and end up bedridden.
He should retire and take it easy at home.
Probably the worst of any TV Asahi primetime show.
You mean Matsui, Ikushima, Satsuki Aruga?
As in the "Just Fit" consultation corner?
Thought there might be someone named "Tani Momoko"…
turns out her name isn't read "Komomo" — it's "Kurumi" (same kanji, easy to misread).
Don't make him keep going just to set some Guinness World Record.
Unless he steps down and someone else takes over hosting entirely.
That's basically Utamaru territory (a nod to the late rakugo master Katsura Utamaru, famous as a frail elderly TV fixture).
Even back then it felt like they kept piling on weirder segments, like it could end any day.
Guess it's still going.
It's not like he's out walking around like on Bura Tamori (his separate walking/geology show).
Since the lines are all scripted, I guess even rookies can handle it.
Wonder if she's leaving.
Don't know the 2025 intake well.
Or maybe they'll go bold with Kurumi Tani?
Fired on a 4-year cycle.
Only Takeuchi and Hironaka lasted 5 years.
Like, 70 and out.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
“Music Station” has had Tamori as its sole host since the show began airing in 1986, and this year marks its 40th anniversary. In the thread, names like Hiroshi Sekiguchi and Mari Yoshimura came up in connection with the “original” host, but that’s actually confusion with a different show airing around the same era, “Yoru no Hit Studio” — worth clarifying that Tamori has, in fact, been Music Station’s only host. Sub-MC duties have typically gone to rookie announcers, and outside of exceptions like Yue Takeuchi and Ayaka Hironaka who each stayed five years, the role has generally turned over roughly every four years. Where the thread’s opinions diverged was over how seriously to take 81-year-old Tamori’s advancing age — some saw it as a genuine concern for the show’s future, others treated it as just a running joke. The names floated as possible next sub-MCs are all 5ch speculation, not anything officially announced by TV Asahi.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “TV Asahi’s Nia Suzuki Announces Departure as ‘Music Station’ Sub-MC! “With Tamori…” Looks Back on Four Years — 8th Sub-MC to Be Announced Later.”
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