Abstract
The purpose of this survey was to analyze TV sports programs in 1996. The relevant data had covered the TV program colums in the Asahi Newspaper televised from January 01 through December 31, 1996. Survey had been conducted on the ten station of NHK General, NHK Education, Nippon TV, TBS TV, Fuji TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, NHK Satellite 1, NHK Satellite 2 and WOWOW. Twelve-month telecast hours had been conbined into a total classified by spotrs enents. Analysis had also been made on sports programs in Golden Hours. Golden hours in this survey were meant to be from seven through ten o'clock in the evening. Following result were obtained. 1. Total telecast houts of TV sports programs in 1996 were 562,692 minutes. The Satellite telecast, among them, were 263,436 minutes, occupying 46.8% of total hours telecast. 2. On-the-spot hours of the Olympics were 43,087 minutes. The Satellite telecast, among them, were 23,090 minutes. 3. The number of sports events telecast in 1996 was seventy-four. 4. An event occupying the longest hours of telecast was baseball taking 78,139 minutes. Golf held the second slot having 57,946 minutes, while soccer in the third position with 52,850 minutes, while Olympic General the fourth with 49,391 minutes and Sumo the fifth with 44,992 minutes respectively. 5. Baseball garnered the longest hours telecast in Golden Hours with 28,483 minutes to be followed by soccer in the second spot with 17,787 minutes and sports variety the third with7,782 minutes each.
