The program became highly popular, especially in Japan where it was introduced by many Japanese programs in April 2012. Sunday Girl NueNue, one of the members later selected to form an idol group in Japan, stated: "We all learn about it a bit in school, though I still don't know too much about weather forecasting." According to her, the idea of Next TV was to "make weather fun" since "weather reports are usually dull because it's just someone telling you that it's going to be sunny or it's going to rain, etc." Currently, we only report on the weather in Taiwan and America, but in the near future we want to add the Japanese weather so we can increase our audience, and maybe even add Thailand and other places around the world. The weather report was just a means for us to get a daily program together, with the opportunity to show off different girls each day. Regarding the idea of producing the program, Shih said: On television, the forecasts were broadcast daily during the afternoon, evening, and late news. Lester Shih (奚岳隆), creator of the program, said the Japanese versions were not originally intended for Japanese audience, but merely an expression of Japanese style of cuteness. Īs the forecasts were for Taiwan and the United States, the girls spoke in English, Mandarin and Japanese. Furthermore, the costumes, music, and visuals were changed in each theme. ![]() The themes of Chinese New Year, company internship, environmentalism, flight attendants, ninja, and tokusatsu had also been used. For example, in the graduation theme, the weather reports were filmed at Shih Chien University and the girls dressed up in Japanese school uniforms and spoke in Japanese. The program theme is changed every month. Each day of the week is hosted by a different girl who would introduce herself, dance in costume and deliver a short message to viewers in an adorable manner during the report. The duties of the girls were to report weather forecasts or, in fact, to "keep eyes glued on TV sets", but not to serve as meteorologists. The number of the members is later increased to fourteen and eventually thirty-four. On 1 August 2010, Next TV formed a group of seven girls called "Weather Girls". History 2010–12: weathercasters ĭesiring to produce a daily program featuring charming Taiwanese girls, Next TV Broadcasting Limited originated an idea of creating a daily weather forecast program to be distributed through television and the internet, with a group of cute young girls doing cosplay and dancing whilst reporting forecasts.
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