Hirano Remi Tries to Plug Something Live on Air → NHK Announcer Seriously Scolds Her: “This Is Public Broadcasting!”

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The story

On the September 21, 2026 broadcast of NHK’s “Hirano Remi’s Quick-Trick Recipes! 2026 Autumn,” cooking personality Hirano Remi tried to slip in a personal plug live on air, only for announcer Ando Keisuke to cut her off on the spot: “This is public broadcasting — please stop advertising.” Hirano appeared on the show with her right arm in a cast from a fracture, so things were already off to a rocky start. On 5ch, reactions split between those who saw the exchange as “the usual running gag” and those “sick of seeing it recycled again,” with quite a few posts also questioning NHK’s advertising rules and the whole premise of being a “public broadcaster.”

Hirano Remi Suddenly Plugs Something Live → NHK Announcer Genuinely Angry: “This Is Public Broadcasting,” “Please Really Stop”

On NHK’s “Hirano Remi’s Quick-Trick Recipes! 2026 Autumn,” aired on the 21st, an incident occurred in which announcer Ando Keisuke seriously scolded cooking personality Hirano Remi over a remark, saying, “This is public broadcasting — please stop advertising.”

The popular show has Hirano cooking live, and this time she appeared with her right arm in a cast from a fracture — an eventful episode from the start.

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

What people said

2AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:39
Happens every time
She tried to plug her book before, too

It's her running bit
3AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:39
She called it "Old Folks' Day" (instead of the official "Respect for the Aged Day") and everyone jumped in to correct her lol
4AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:40
Don't BS-NHK show ads pop up on YouTube or Amazon Prime sometimes? Isn't that weird?
5AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:40
This isn't even the kind of show NHK should be doing in the first place
8AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:41
Hardly anyone even knows this show exists, so cut them some slack
10AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:41
It's not that I dislike her — I actually like her — but watching her is just loud and exhausting, so I avoid it when she's on
12AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:42
Why's it play the public-broadcaster card once in a while
when it's this biased the rest of the time
13AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:42
Morons who don't even realize it's a running gag, and the slow-on-the-uptake types who fall for outlets that know full well and post it anyway
16AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:42
They say "this is public broadcasting," but they keep making shows that pander to comedians and K-pop, huh?
19AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:42
It's pro wrestling with cue cards prepped and everything, yet she "genuinely" gets mad…
It's just impression-farming, so they should get penalized
20AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:43
Hirano Remi's really moved up in the world
Back in the day she used to be on some CS satellite food channel
31AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:46
Advertising on 5ch is totally fine though
https://itami-cs.or.jp/itamihall/img/20261206.jpg
32AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:47
She's already 79 — the ones putting her on air are the weird ones
36AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:48
They're a public broadcaster, and yet
during MLB broadcasts they're plastered with
backstop ads — is that actually okay?
39AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:49
They talk like they've actually got public value
but aside from collecting the license fee, they don't look the part to me
45AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:51
Turning their tried-and-true bit with the announcer into a news article, huh
47AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:51
It's the usual bit
I mean, this article itself is the usual bit lol
48AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:51
Even the backlash is all part of the calculation. Ban her from the show.
49AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:52
Wait, Ando Keisuke is a guy?…. how lame
50AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:52
The staged bit with NHK is the standard routine
and it's all funded by the license fee
53AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:53
NHK plugs NHK Plus during the news
and keeps airing show promos over and over
they're gonna get an earful from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications soon
54AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:55
They're a public broadcaster, so why is baseball the only sport where they even show the stadium sponsor names in the sports news?
56AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:56
She's 79 already?
That's one energetic 79-year-old
57AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:57
I don't particularly like or dislike Hirano Remi, but
is there some intent behind NHK's color choices here?
https://imgur.com/a/XaMoBig
59AnonymousSep 22, 2026 00:59
Everything she cooks is just for laughs and useless as an actual recipe reference — I really can't stand it
Her daughter-in-law's the same, for that matter — looks good, but the cooking fundamentals are sloppy, dislike her too
60AnonymousSep 22, 2026 01:00
To me she's just "NHK's go-to cooking-show face whenever they're stuck for ideas"
61AnonymousSep 22, 2026 01:00
Yet somehow, when it comes to baseball, our public broadcaster has no problem just saying company names outright
63AnonymousSep 22, 2026 01:00
NHK is the one we don't actually need
Let's get it dismantled

Background and Discussion Points

This back-and-forth between Hirano Remi and the announcer is said to be a recurring bit on the show, and 5ch users split between those who dismissed it as “scripted pro wrestling” and those who took it as “she’s genuinely in trouble.” As a broadcaster funded by license fees, NHK officially does not permit personal advertising within its programs, so the announcer’s warning this time was in line with that stated policy. At the same time, some posts pointed to the ambiguous line between this and NHK’s own promotional activities — like the backstop ads during baseball broadcasts or the repeated plugs for NHK Plus — meaning the thread went beyond simple reactions to a “running gag” and developed into broader questions about NHK’s own advertising rules as a public broadcaster.

*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[TV] Hirano Remi Suddenly Plugs Something Live → NHK Announcer: “This Is Public Broadcasting,” “Please Really Stop” — Genuinely Angry.”

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