All Night Nippon

*All Night Nippon*
Genre	Late-night talk show
Running time	4 hours
Country	Japan
Home station	Nippon Broadcasting System (NRN)
Starring	see DJs
Air dates	since October 1, 1967
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^?) (aka 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.).

The highest ratings were achieved on the night of October 1, 1967.

[edit] DJs

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

Mondays – Thursdays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon R (くり万太郎のオールナイトニッポンR)" (aired on 11 radio stations in Japan from 18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC, and on 7 radio stations from 19:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC )
- Kuri Mantaro (Kuriman)

Fridays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon R" (aired on 10 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 19:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC )
- weekly

Saturdays, 14:30 UTC – 16:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon Saturday Special Tamashii no Radio (福山雅治のオールナイトニッポンサタデースペシャル魂のラジオ)" (aired on 32 radio stations in Japan)
- Masaharu Fukuyama with Akihisa Souguchi

Before commercial breaks, a jingle is being sung. The current one is performed by Man With A Mission.[1]

Other artists who sang the ANN Jingle are:

All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros., a version of Super Mario Bros. with graphics based upon the radio show