On Oct 24, 12:53 pm, Shimpei Yamashita <shim...@gol.com> wrote:
> On 2009-10-24, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 23, 8:46 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> Yanbo, Mabo Tenki Youhou
>
> >> Channel Four (Gomiyuri Terebi) evening news ... or it used to be.  I
> >> don't do Yon-chaneru any more since they moved the newsreader I'd been
> >> lusting after for many years to another gig.
>
> > Don't think it is any more.  Or at least not in the Tokyo region or
> > during the
> > time that I tune in to it.  They just have Kihara-san and Sora-jiro
> > doing the weather
> > whenever I watch at 6:50 PM-ish.
>
> There was a Nikkei article on the Yanmar Diesel weather report a few
> months ago. Apparently it is still running, but only in some regions
> outside of Tokyo.
>
> Shimpei.

Indeed.  According to this, it doesn't seem to be available except in
some outlying areas:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ヤン坊マー坊天気予報

It is still possible to see it on the net.