In late October, various sports papers reported that Fuji Television’s variety show “Sake no Tsumami ni Narunaru Hanashi” would end by the end of the year. Daigo Chidori said that he was furious that “ Sake no Tsumami ni Narunaru Hanashi ” had been put on hold. However, Matsumoto stopped his activities in January 2012, and Daigo (45) of the comedy duo Chidori took over as MC. However, on October 24 this year, the program was suddenly replaced. “A special Halloween episode was scheduled for that day, but Daigo’s appearance dressed as Matsumoto was viewed as a problem by Fuji Television executives and the compliance department, and the program was replaced. Daigo was discouraged from continuing the program, and Fuji Television, not wanting to irritate its sponsors any further, decided to terminate the program. However, what the upper management of Fuji Television viewed as a problem in the current turmoil was the “leak of information. ……. After the Masahiro Nakai (53) fiasco, information inside Fuji Television was reported one after another in the weekly magazines and sports papers, and the upper management saw it as a problem. The target of the allegations was the “Programming and Production Bureau,” which is responsible for deciding the “timetable” of which programs to air at which times and at which time slots. A major law firm was asked to conduct an “internal investigation,” and interviews were being conducted mainly with members of the former programming bureau. The executives of Fuji Television are said to be furious because the weekly magazine has uncovered important information about the “crisis in the continuation of a popular TV program” right in the middle of the investigation, The Fuji executives, however, are said to be watching the fiasco with a cold eye. No matter how much money is spent to conduct an internal investigation, no one will say, ‘Yes, I told the weekly magazine. The people who do are dissatisfied with the current system at Fuji Television, so unless the system is reformed, the information leaks will not stop.
