All Night Nippon

Genre	Late-night talk show
Running time	4 hours
Country of origin	Japan
Home station	Nippon Broadcasting System (NRN)
Starring	see DJs
Original release	October 1, 1967 – Present
Opening theme	Bittersweet Samba by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Website	Official site

All Night Nippon (オールナイトニッポン, Ōru Naito Nippon, also known as All Night and ANN) is a Japanese radio program broadcast by Nippon Broadcasting System and other radio stations from 1–5 am (JST). It preempts broadcasts from TBS Radio's programming heard on stations under both JRN and NRN (TBC Radio, CBC Radio, etc.).

DJs

The day of the week below are for the evening preceding in Japan, i.e. day in UTC.

• Mondays – Thursdays, 13:00 UTC – 15:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon Music 10 (オールナイトニッポンMUSIC10)" (aired on 11 radio stations in Japan)
  • Mondays: Ryoko Moriyama
  • Tuesdays: Anju Suzuki
  • Wednesdays: Yuko Natori (first and third Wednesday), Chisato Moritaka (second Wednesday), Kaori Kishitani (fourth Wednesday)
  • Thursdays: Marina Watanabe
• Mondays – Saturdays, 16:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon (オールナイトニッポン)" (aired on 36 radio stations in Japan)
  • Mondays: Ado
  • Tuesdays: Gen Hoshino
  • Wednesdays: Nogizaka46
  • Thursdays: Ninety-nine
  • Fridays: Shimofuri Myojo
  • Saturdays: Audrey
• Mondays – Thursdays, 18:00 UTC – 19:30 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 11 radio stations in Japan from 18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC, and on 9 radio stations from 19:00 UTC until 19:30 UTC )
  • Mondays: Fuwa-Chan
  • Tuesdays: Ano
  • Wednesdays: Nobuyuki Sakuma
  • Thursdays: Magical Lovely
• Fridays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 11 radio stations in Japan from 18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC, and on 9 radio stations from 19:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC )
  • Fridays: Sanshiro
• Saturdays, 14:30 UTC – 16:00 UTC with "SixTONES No All Night Nippon Saturday Special (SixTONESのオールナイトニッポンサタデースペシャル )" (aired on 34 radio stations in Japan)
  • SixTONES
• Saturdays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 22 radio stations in Japan from 18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC, on 6 radio stations from 19:00 UTC until 19:30 UTC, and on 5 radio stations from 19:30 UTC until 20:00 UTC )
  • weekly

Jingle

Before commercial breaks, a jingle is sung. The current one is performed by Gen Hoshino.

Other artists who sang the ANN Jingle are these:

Popular culture

In 1986, Nintendo developed All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros., a special Family Computer Disk System version of Super Mario Bros., as a contest prize for listeners. The game mostly consisted of levels from the original Super Mario Bros., though it also included some levels, graphics, and other gameplay changes from the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2. Some enemies, characters, and level elements had their graphics changed to reflect people or symbols associated with All Night Nippon or the Nippon Broadcasting System.^[1]