(Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazunobu Ukikawa) today announced that TBS Television’s news program “NSTA” will use MetaMoJi’s “GEMBA Note for Business” (hereinafter “GEMBA Note”), a digital notebook application for on-site work, to make its news program paperless. (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Taku Sasaki, President & CEO; hereinafter “TBS TV”) announced today that the company has succeeded in significantly reducing the amount of copying and going paperless by using GEMBA Note for Business (hereinafter “GEMBA Note”), a digital notebook application for on-site work, to share documents from paper to tablet computers.
TBS TV’s news program “NSTA” used to generate as many as 5,700 sheets of photocopies per broadcast, including manuscripts, cue sheets, and progress notes. Frequent changes in the program’s running order and the distribution of copies to related staff (in more than a dozen locations) when revisions were made to the script were the main causes of the large amount of paper generated.
By utilizing the real-time sharing function of “GEMBA Note,” this work was eliminated, resulting in a drastic paperless program, and all staff involved in program production, including the desk, announcers, and technical staff, were able to instantly share information on changes, revolutionizing the progress of the program.
Twice a year, TBS TV conducts the SDGs campaign “Smile for the Planet WEEK” to raise awareness of the importance of the SDGs throughout Japan. In addition, TBS TV has been earnestly addressing the SDGs through internal campaigns, and as part of these campaigns, the company has taken on the challenge of going paperless, which has been a longstanding issue in the broadcasting industry. GEMBA Note” is providing strong support for the company’s efforts in this regard.
In September 2022, TBS TV had the opportunity to present a major paperless initiative using the GEMBA Note as a representative case study in the “1.5°C Commitment Campaign,” a global warming prevention project across commercial broadcasters and NHK. This challenge was not only effective in achieving the paperless goal, but the immediate sharing of information changed the quality of work and was a major step forward in illuminating the future of young people.