ABC TV announcer Rikuto Konishi announced on Instagram that he has married fellow ABC announcer Saya Oishi.
On 5ch, the thread buzzed with talk about ABC’s pay levels reportedly being higher than the Tokyo key stations and how common in-house marriages are among station announcers, with users bringing up past examples of announcer couples from other stations one after another.
August 25, 2026
ABC TV announcer Rikuto Konishi (34) reported on his Instagram on the 25th that he has married fellow ABC announcer Saya Oishi (26).
Under the heading “[Announcement],” Konishi wrote: “Thank you as always for your support. I’m a bit embarrassed to share something so personal, but I’d like to report that on August 25, 2026, I married ABC TV announcer Saya Oishi.”
Source: news.livedoor.com / Original article here
ABC is a station known for paying more than the key stations
There are even female announcers who turn down key-station job offers to join ABC
You'd have to be an idiot to become an announcer at a key station other than NHK
There was a senior-junior announcer couple at Kansai TV too, right
Oh, so that's the story
Must be this one >>58 >>24
Kogake: "That's outrageous."
Takeda: "You're one to talk."
Same pattern too — a Kansai guy paired with a Kanto girl.
Sounds like she'll be going freelance next spring
She's talking about Tanaka
Here's the source
Kasumi Mori spills the "real" scoop on TV station employees' love lives: "Announcer-staffer relationships are the classic pattern"
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2457218/full/
Back when Konishi and Fukuto were co-hosting, the way they stood next to each other just had this perfect-match vibe — I used to wonder if the two of them would end up together
The younger of the Saito sisters, huh
She's cute on a whole different level
Well, that was during TBS's dark ages
Wonder if she'd have joined if it were today's TBS
Kansai station announcers really do have a ton of office marriages
But going after a female announcer just a few years in, right as her popularity's about to take off — that's basically a crime lol
Yomiuri TV's Toratani also recently married someone from Yomiuri
No way, that doesn't happen lol
The pay's totally different too
I hear key-station announcers can be pretty condescending toward semi-key and regional-station announcers, looking down on them or something
Guess there's a hierarchy even among announcers
It does happen, actually — and the pay's higher than the key stations, you know?
Asahi Broadcasting in Osaka should pay more than TV Asahi
The ones who go freelance tend to get a little messed up
There's something uniquely Osaka and kind of gross about this lol
Whatever happened to Fumi Yoshitake anyway?
Chiaki Kuroki from Iinkai NP is neither, but she's from Kansai
even though she's actually a Kanto native
Didn't Asahi Broadcasting's pay drop after they split TV and radio into separate companies?
That's probably why Hirodo gave up on it
That was back when Kanda was still there
She doted on him, always going "Rikuto, Rikuto"
There's a female announcer who ditched a TBS job offer too, you know
There's no other show in that timeslot that's Kansai-only broadcast
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “ABC TV’s Rikuto Konishi and Saya Oishi Announce Marriage: ‘We Want Our Days Together to Be Full of Smiles!’“.
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