TV Star Meikan
TV Star Meikan is a Japanese television personality directory of Tokyo News Service, which launches in the autumn every year.
In this article, it will also describe Web-ban TV Star Meikan and its sister magazine Fresh Star Meikan.
Overview
TV Star Meikan was first published in 1992. As commemorating the 30th anniversary of the launch of television information magazine TV Guide as an extra special issue it was issued.Initially it was combined with the publication year and title year, but the year of the title is set to the next fiscal year from TV Star Meikan '96 issued in 1995. Until the 1999 edition, the publication dates are October, 2000, 2006 to 2006, November 2007. Regarding the form of issue, the extra publication of TV Star Meikan '98 ''TV Guide extra edition, TV Star Meikan 2000 'in 1999, TV Guide extra publication, 2000 TV Star Directory 2001 are books from the Tokyo News Mook Mook series.
Its book size format is A5 size, the basic colour in the cover is blue or purple land, the body magazine is monochrome. A celebrity directory booklet will be posted as an appendix to the usual TV Guide'' from about July every year, but those summarized are released in late October or early November. In addition to celebrities, cultural people, news presenters, and announcers are posted. Athletes were also posted at the beginning of its first publication.
Web-ban TV Star Meikan
In 2008, Web-ban TV Star Meikan has started as the website version of this directory. In addition, even the entertainer posted in the book version may not be posted on the web version due to circumstances of the rights. Also, some may not be published in the book version, some of the entertainers were posted only on the web version.''Fresh Star Meikan''
In its sister magazine there was the Fresh Star Meikan, a star map book of only young stars. It was launched in 1994 and it was released every March. Here the format is also A5 size. Female celebrities between 12 and 25 years old and male celebrities between 12 and 30 years old were eligible to be included.It has not been issued since the 2008 edition, according to the news planning company, which is in charge of editing, it is undecided in the future and it is in fact a state of being suspended.