New Year's Eve song Festival
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As many as 80% of Japanese television viewers watch this year-end
programme, broadcast from 9 pm to 11.30 pm on New Year's Eve by NHK (Nihon
Hoso Kyokai : Japan Broadcasting Association). Some time before the
programme, an announcement is made of the singers who will take part in the
festival and they are divided into two competing teams: red, female
singers, and white, male singers. The programme was first broadcast on
January 30th, 1951, but in 1953 it was moved to New Year's Eve and has
since developed into something of a national institution. The title of the
programme in Japanese is Kohaku Utagassen.
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