Media Monitoring Club

1. Monitor Qualifications

Monitor should:
(1) live outside Japan and be able to watch NHK WORLD TV;
(2) be aged 18 or older;
(3) be able to communicate in e-mails in English;
(4) be able to write monitor reports in English; and
(5) have a bank account which can receive money transfer made in Yen, U.S. Dollars, Euros, or Pound Sterling.

Please note that:

* those who watch only parts of NHK WORLD TV programs on NHK WORLD PREMIUM, TV JAPAN, NHK WORLD Internet Service or MHz Worldview, etc. are not eligible to become monitors;
* only one person per one household is eligible to apply for only one category of NHK WORLD monitors. (There are NHK WORLD TV Program Monitors and NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN Program Monitors, as well as NHK WORLD Technical Monitors for which currently there is no public invitation for application. Therefore, if you are applying for NHK WORLD TV Program Monitor, you are asked to refrain from applying for NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN Program Monitor. Additionally, other family members of yours, whether your wife or sibling etc., is asked to refrain from applying for any of the NHK WORLD monitors.)

2. What are Monitors requested to do?

Monitors are requested to watch in principle four (4) programs specified by NHK per calendar month, write their comments and opinions on such programs in English (300~400 words), and send the report to NHK by e-mail.

3. Monitoring Period:

For six(6) months from April 1, 2010 (Thursday) till September 30, 2010 (Thursday)

4. Remuneration

Monitor will be paid the remuneration of 3,000 Japanese Yen per each Monitoring Form submitted.

5. Application Method Read more…

NHK WORLD TV is looking for viewers to work as NHK WORLD TV program monitors. Please send an application form below.

<When to Apply>

Applications are being received from
Mon., July 6, - Fri., July 31, 2009(until 11:00 UTC)

<Monitoring Period>

Tue., October 1, 2009 – Wed., March 31, 2010 (6 months)

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What is DIGITAL STADIUM

Helping undiscovered talent to make a world debut
” Digital Stadium,” also known as “Digista” is a TV program that invites artists to submit a wide range of digital art works for judging, comments, and advising from leading professionals active in the field. Digista is dedicated to supporting and nurturing young artists and thereby helping to create a new visual culture for the digital era.
One of the special features of the program is a kind of reverse selection process whereby applicants get to choose the professional artists who will act as “curators” on the show.
Applicants submit their work to a specific member of the curatorial team, whose names are announced in advance via the program web site or on the program itself. The curators then judge the designated artworks, strictly yet kindly, from their professional viewpoint.
Curators choose a “best work of the week” from among the submissions, thereby granting it entry to the Digital Stadium or “Hall of Fame” cherished by all the young artists who apply. Each winner’s name is forever engraved in the Stadium.

Go for the DIGISTA Grand Prize!
The “DIGISTA Awards” are held once a year to select the year’s best works from among those admitted to the Digital Stadium.
After the best works of each category have been selected, judges decide on one work to receive the Grand Prize. Who knows which artist will be the winner of this year’s coveted Grand Prize?
The program is presented by two hosts.
One is NHK commentator Hide Nakaya, who assumes the role of program Navigator. Nakaya is known as the person who designed NHK’s famous egg-shaped logo. Responsible for commentary across the fields of the arts, culture and the digital world, Nakaya supplies us throughout the program with the latest information on digital art.
TV announcer Mayuko Ishii serves as the program MC. Well-known through her appearances on various news programs, Ishii helps out the artists with her concise comments and warm advice.

HOW TO APPLY? Read more…

NHK WORLD TV is looking for viewers willing to work as NHK WORLD TV program monitors. (At this time NHK World are not looking for NHK WORLD PREMIUM monitors.)
If you are interested, please read the following details and then send your application form.

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