Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of October 19 – October 25:

Week of Oct 19 to Oct 25

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Anime: Sazae-san, Fuji, 18:30-19:00, Oct 25, 21.7

1. Variety: Nep League, Fuji, 19:00-19:54, Oct 19, 21.7

3. Variety: Sho-ten, NTV, 17:30-18:00, Oct 25, 20.9

3. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45, Oct 25, [...]

Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of October 12 – October 18:

Week of Oct 12 to Oct 18

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Variety: Sho-ten, NTV, 17:30-18:00, Oct 18, 20.2

2. Drama: Aibou Season 8 Premiere, Asahi, 20:00-21:48, Oct 14, 19.4

3. Anime: Sazae-san, Fuji, 18:30-19:00, Oct 18, 19.0

4. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45, [...]

Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of October 5- October 11:

Week of Oct 5 to Oct 11

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Variety: The Gyoten News SP, NTV, 19:56-23:54, Oct 7, 22.0

2. Drama: Welkame, NHK, 8:15-8:30, Oct 8, 20.6

3. Variety: Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodansho SP, NTV, 21:00-22:54, Oct 11, 19.8

4. Sport: [...]

Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of September 28- October 4:

Week of Sept 28 to Oct 4

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Variety: Oshare-ism SP, NTV, 22:00-23:00, Oct 4, 21.7

2. Informative: Shinso Hodo Bankisha!, NTV, 18:00-18:55, Oct 4, 20.1

3. Variety: Sekai no Hate Made Itte Q SP, NTV, 19:00-21:54, Oct 4, [...]

Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of September 21-27:

Week of Sept 21 to Sept 27

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Sport: Sumo Aki Basho, NHK, 17:00-18:00, Sept 27, 23.7

2. Movie: Okuribito, TBS, 21:00-23:24, Sept 21, 21.7

3. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45, Sept 27, 19.5

4. Drama: Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji (Final Episode), Fuji, [...]

The ratings are almost a week later than usual due to the 5 day ‘Silver Week’ holiday. Here are the top 10 non-news programs for the week of September 14-20.

Week of Sept 14 to Sept 20

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45, Sept 20, 20.0

2. Drama: Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji, Fuji, 21:00-21:54, [...]

The top 5 non-news TV programs last week (a day later than usual…) were:

Week of Sept 7 to Sept 13

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45, Sept 13, 21.6

2. Variety: Nep League, Fuji, 19:00-19:54 Sept 7, 21.2

3. Variety: Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodansho, NTV, 21:00-21:54, Sept 13, 20.3

4. Drama: Kyumei Byoto 24 [...]

The top 5 non-news TV programs last week were:

Week of Aug 31 to Sept 6

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. Variety: Nep League, Fuji, 19:00-19:54 Aug 31, 23.5

2. Drama: Tenchijin, NHK, 20:00-20:45,  Sept 6, 20.4

3. Variety: Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodansho, NTV, 21:00-21:54, Sept 6, 20.0

4. Variety: Takeshi no TV Tackle, Asahi, 21:00-21:54, Aug 31, [...]

Every week I intend to post the top 5 rated TV programs in Japan for the previous week. These records tend to come out a few days late…

Week of Aug 24 to Aug 30

(Program, Channel, Time & Date, Rating)

1. 24 Hour TV Part 11, NTV, 20:05-21:00 Aug 30, 31.1

2. ZERO x Senkyo 2009 (Election Coverage), [...]

And the winner is…. NTV

The NTV election results won the race for viewers, claiming 26.4% of households…

(Still no match for ’24 Hour TV’, which won the night before for NTV with 31.3%…)

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