[sumo] [spoilers]Asashoryu's open armed and beloved return.

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2007/12/08, at 20:36, Achim Pawelczyk wrote:
>
> I think they can be compared in terms of publicity.
> Just look at NHK. On the day of his return, Asashoryu was top on 
> nearly every NHK news programm, news7: 8:30 minutes , news9: 11:40. On 
> the day he appeared at the jungyo, he was in the main news, the two 
> remaining days of the jungyo were on the sports news. I can't remember 
> any case in which a jungyo was present that much on NHK.
>

Does this mean that you only get NHK?  Did you miss seeing him on all 
the other TV news broadcasts, and in all the Japanese papers? It wasn't 
just NHK reporters who block-booked every plane out of Mongolia to make 
sure of getting up close -- forgetting that Shoryu couldn't get a 
ticket himself!

Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp