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Fuji TV JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and operated by the it is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network S ...

in Japan. It was first broadcast on April 1, 1999, and currently airs from 08:00 to 09:50 Mondays to Fridays. Air time of this program previously was from 8:00 to 9:55 until March 29, 2013. The program ended on March 26, 2021, and was replaced by Mezamashi 8 by the following week.

Presenters

Main presenters

Anchor

* Tomoaki Ogura (April 1, 1999 – March 26, 2021)

Main assistants

* Shinsuke Kasai (April 1, 1999 – March 26, 2021) * Yaeko Umezu (March 24, 2014 – March 31, 2019) * Yuka Ebihara (October 2, 2017 – March 31, 2019)

Sub-assistants

* Shotaro Kinoshita (March 24, 2014 – March 26, 2021) * Sayaka Morimoto (October 2, 2006 – March 26, 2021) * Ayako Yamanaka (March 24, 2014 – March 26, 2021)

Show-biz reporter

* Chumei Maeda (April 1, 1999 – March 26, 2021)

Weather

* Takeshi Amatatsu (October 3, 2005 – March 26, 2021)

Past presenters

Main assistants

* Kyoko Sasaki (April 1, 1999 – March 27, 2009) * Minako Nakano (March 30, 2009 – June 29, 2012) *

Rei Kikukawa is a Japanese actress, model, and television presenter. Biography Kikukawa was born in Urawa (now part of Saitama), in Saitama Prefecture. She is a graduate of the University of Tokyo where she majored in architecture. She was scouted by an a ...

(July 2, 2012 – September 29, 2017)

Sub-assistants

* Yutaka Hasegawa (April 2, 2001 – September 24, 2010) *

Daiki Tanaka is a Japanese professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Alvark Tokyo club of the B.League in Japan. He represented Japan's national basketball team at the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup The 2017 FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA ...

(September 27, 2010 – March 21, 2014) * Yumi Kasuga (April 1, 1999 – September 29, 2006) * Reina Uchida (March 24, 2014 – September 18, 2015)

Former regular commentators

Dave Spector is an American ''gaijin tarento'', television producer, author, and actor based in Japan. Originally from Chicago, he moved to Japan in 1983 after visiting as a producer with the American television program '' Ripley's Believe It or Not!''. H ...

(Wednesday) * Hiroko Mita (Wednesday) * Seiko Niizuma (Thursday) * Tetsuya Bessho (Friday) *

Manami Hashimoto , better known as , is a Japanese gravure idol A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creati ...

(Friday)

Notable past commentators

Kaori Manabe is a Japanese talent, gravure idol and actress. She was born on May 31, 1980 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Personal life On June 26, 2015, it was announced that Manabe married rock musician Kazuya Yoshii and was pregnant with his child and due ...

* Kazuhide Uekusa

Theme music

Opening and ending theme: "Good One" (Kay, until March 2021)

Past

* April 1999 to March 2003: " Veronica" ( Elvis Costello) * April 2003 to September 2005: " Shout to the Top!" (opening) / "My Ever Changing Moods" (ending) (

The Style Council The Style Council were a British band formed in late 1982 by Paul Weller, the former singer, songwriter and guitarist with the punk rock/ new wave/ mod revival band the Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Ru ...

) * October 2005 to September 2007: "

Don't Get Me Wrong "Don't Get Me Wrong" is a song released by British-American alternative rock group The Pretenders. It was the first single taken from the group's 1986 album, '' Get Close''. It can also be found on the band's '' The Singles'' album, released in ...

" (

The Pretenders Pretenders are an English–American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete ...

) * October 2007 to March 2009: "

We Built This City "We Built This City" is a 1985 song by American rock band Starship. It was released as their debut single on their album '' Knee Deep in the Hoopla''. It was written by English musicians Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, who were both living in Lo ...

" ( Starship) * April 2009 to March 2011: "

Invisible Touch ''Invisible Touch'' is the thirteenth studio album by the English rock band Genesis, released on 6 June 1986 by Atlantic Records in the United States and on 9 June 1986 by Charisma/Virgin Records in the United Kingdom. After taking a break in 19 ...

" ( Genesis) * April 2011 to March 2012: "

Heaven Is a Place on Earth "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" is a song by American singer Belinda Carlisle from her second studio album, '' Heaven on Earth'' (1987). Written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, the song was released as the lead single from the ''Heaven on Eart ...

" (

Belinda Carlisle Belinda Jo Carlisle ( ; born August 17, 1958) is an American singer. She gained fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, the most successful all-female rock band of all time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist. Raised in ...

) * April 2012 to September 2012: "

Tell Her About It "Tell Her About It" is a song written and performed by Billy Joel released as a single from his album ''An Innocent Man'' (1983). The song hit the number one spot on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for one week on September 24, 1983, replacing "M ...

" ( Billy Joel) * October 2012 to March 2014: "

Tubthumping "Tubthumping" is a song released by British rock band Chumbawamba from their eighth studio album, ''Tubthumper'' (1997). It is the band's most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, ...

" ( Chumbawamba) *March 2014 to March 2018: "Morning Cheers" (pal@pop) *April 2018 to March 2019: "Rainbow" (Kay) *March to September 2019: "Tap Knock DaNce" (Yuta Mori) *September 2019 to March 2021: "Good One" (Kay)

External links

* Fuji TV original programming Japanese television news shows 1999 Japanese television series debuts 2021 Japanese television series endings 1990s Japanese television series 2000s Japanese television series 2010s Japanese television series {{japan-company-stub