Count Down TV

Count Down TV (カウントダウン・ティーヴィー, Kauntodaun Tīvī) (also known as CDTV) is a Japanese late-night music television program, broadcast on TBS since 1993.

[1] A top 100 music countdown show called Totsuzen Baraetī Sokuhō!!

Count Down 100) (presented by Kuniko Tamada and Masayuki Watanabe) begun airing on TBS networks from October 1992, however received low ratings in its targeted youth market (due to its early airing time, 8pm, and the at average 10pm returning home time of the target audience).

The show was rebranded, becoming Count Down TV and airing from April 1993 onwards.

Some of the rebranding changes were later broadcast times, CGI hosts and imagery, along with only airing the top 40 chart rank-ins.

[6] The show is split up into several chart segments, based around weekly or monthly sales.

Other than these charts, between 1-3 musical guests perform in weekly segments (generally songs popular on the charts at the time), along with an older clip from the 'CDTV library' and fortune telling for the week.

Other segments include information segments for hyped music videos/film tie-up songs/dorama theme songs (potentially with sample clips from these music videos), and user submission polls for such questions as 'Which artist do you want as a lover?

Count Down TV ranks its music video countdown on the CDTV Top 100 chart.

Presenters Abī-kun, Kikuchi-kun and Mākī