New Show ‘News to’ Tops Its Time Slot in Debut Ratings — Strong Start as Miyaneya’s Successor

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The story

The new show ‘News to’ (produced by Yomiuri TV, airing on the Nippon TV network Monday through Friday at 1:55 PM), which premiered on October 5, took sole first place in its time slot for both household and individual ratings in the Kanto and Kansai regions alike during its debut broadcast. The show succeeds ‘Miyaneya,’ with announcer Chiaki Kuroki serving as MC. The result — beating out rivals ‘Gogosuma’ and ‘Toretate!’ by a wide margin — sparked a split debate on 5ch, with some taking the cool-headed view that ‘the first episode gets a congratulatory bump, so we can’t judge its real strength yet,’ and others pointing out that topping the charts with only around 2% in individual ratings just shows how few people are watching TV at all.

New show ‘News to’ posts dominant ratings right out of the gate, trouncing ‘Gogosuma’ and ‘Toretate!’ — a feather in announcer Chiaki Kuroki’s cap

It was revealed on the 6th that the debut broadcast of ‘News to’ (a Yomiuri TV-produced news program on the Nippon TV network, airing Monday through Friday at 1:55 PM), which started on the 5th, took sole first place in its time slot for both household and individual ratings in the Kanto and Kansai regions.

The ratings for the debut broadcast on the 5th were as follows.

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

What people said

3AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:49
Was watching it while driving around and they kept saying 'kaiwai' ('the scene/circle') over and over — didn't realize that word had gone this mainstream lol
4AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:49
Re: #1
There's a congratulatory bump for the first episode, so we can't judge its real strength yet
5AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:50
Taking the top spot with just a 2.1% individual rating… how few people are even watching TV these days
6AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:50
Makes you wonder what all that hefty salary they paid Miyane was for
10AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:54
'Yay, 5%! We're miles ahead!' — man, what a pathetic little world lol
65AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:32
Re: #10
Better ratings than a primetime drama
79AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:49
Re: #10
We're talking like 1 million concurrent viewers territory here
11AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:56
There's a site called TVAL now, so lying about the numbers gets caught immediately
13AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:57
Once the first week cycles through, the real test is what happens the week after…
14AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:58
Probably just the honeymoon period
Heard Murakami was Miyane's successor, but he's only on Fridays lol
That's way too thin — no budget or what?
18AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:01
Re: #14
Yeah, I was also surprised Murakami was taking on a daily afternoon slot
Once a week is pretty underwhelming though
15AnonymousOct 6, 2026 23:58
It's just the first episode, people are only tuning in to check it out
17AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:00
Well, I'll at least watch through all the rotating daily commentators plus Murakami's Friday slot
19AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:01
From morning to night it's wall-to-wall tabloid/info shows with basically the same content everywhere
Don't the viewers get sick of it?
20AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:03
Isn't that just because it's the first episode?
If it keeps this up through the end of the year, that'd be impressive though
22AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:04
Gogosuma's dead lmao
51AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:22
Re: #22
Gogosuma basically turned into a weather program at this point
The other day they stretched a weather topic out for a whole hour
Everything else is just boring filler
23AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:05
First time I saw Miyane was on 'Sanma no Manma,' appearing alongside Kansai TV's Jun Umeda, who went freelance around the same time
I'd seen Umeda before on pro baseball news, but had no idea who Miyane was
They called him the face of Kansai mornings back then
27AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:08
Re: #23
I remember that
I also only knew Umeda and was like 'who's this Miyane guy'
Never thought the gap between them would end up this huge
25AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:08
The numbers will probably climb for the first week to a month
37AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:14
Re: #1
'A feather in their cap' is such an old-fashioned phrase
Is the writer some old guy?
43AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:19
Re: #37
These days young staff get their copy corrected and just run with it
So young people end up picking up these silly old phrases
62AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:29
Re: #37
The ones who obsess over whether a word is 'old' or 'new' are the real old geezers
40AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:17
If Momo Nishio isn't on it, no need to watch
48AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:21
Re: #40
She's only on as sub-MC on Fridays I think
44AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:20
Among Yomiuri TV announcers, Jiro Shinbo and Hiromi Kawada are the ones who made it nationally known
55AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:23
Re: #44
Takeshi Mori was on 'Zoom In Asa' and '2-ji no Wide Show'
Hideki Hanekawa also hosted '2-ji no Wide Show'
But '2-ji no Wide Show' actually wasn't networked in some regions like Hokkaido
47AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:20
I mean, with that female announcer as MC, the high ratings probably won't last long, right?
52AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:22
Re: #47
Probably depends on how she plays off the panelists
60AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:27
Until recently I was under the mistaken impression that Jiro Shinbo was from the Kinki region and a Kyoto University grad, but turns out he grew up in Saitama and graduated from Waseda
66AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:34
Re: #60
Among Yomiuri announcers, Akihiro Nomura is from Amagasaki and a Tokyo University grad
75AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:42
Re: #60
The Shinbo family's home turf is Kishiwada City in the Senshu area of Kinai, and his parents and older brother are from Osaka Prefecture
But Jiro Shinbo himself was born in Tottori Prefecture due to his parents' job transfer and grew up in Saitama
Most people with the Shinbo surname are concentrated in Kishiwada City, but Jiro Shinbo lives in Hirakata City in Kitakawachi
https://name-power.net/fn/%E8%BE%9B%E5%9D%8A.html
71AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:36
Kanto folks better brace themselves
You think 'oh, she's nice!' and Google her
Only to find she's been married for ages
72AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:39
Re: #71
Married female announcers probably go over better with the housewife demographic anyway
78AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:45
Let's judge this by the numbers a year from now, not episode one
81AnonymousOct 7, 2026 00:52
Re: #78
Checked TVAL yesterday and Gogosuma was back on top
Guess everyone just tuned in for the first day

Background and Key Points of This Topic

Television ratings come in two types: “household” ratings (the percentage of households with the TV turned on) and “individual” ratings (the percentage of people actually watching). A new show’s debut episode is said to typically get a temporary boost from a kind of congratulatory bump. The thread split between those arguing that this bump means the show’s true strength is still unknown, and those who saw the low absolute numbers themselves — household ratings in the 4% range, individual ratings around 2% — as a sign of Japan’s broader drift away from television. Another focus was the MC handover from Seiji Miyane to announcer Chiaki Kuroki as the show succeeded ‘Miyaneya,’ prompting comparisons with the careers of fellow Yomiuri TV alumni announcers like Jiro Shinbo and Hiromi Kawada. Notably, posters later reported that TVAL data from just a few days afterward showed ‘Gogosuma’ back on top — a detail easy for readers to miss, underscoring that whether the strong debut ratings hold up depends entirely on the numbers still to come.

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[Ratings] Miyaneya’s successor News to takes #1 in its time slot for both household and individual ratings in Kanto and Kansai! Wins by a wide margin over Gogosuma and Toretate!” for context.

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