JOTX-DTV (TV Tokyo): Difference between revisions

===Background===

'''JOTX-DTV''' is the main callsign of national TV station '''TV Tokyo'''. TV Tokyo is one of the main stations in Japan, mostly due to specializing in anime shows (with the most popular shows being aired on the network). JOTX-TV existed since 1951, the TV Tokyo Corporation then started to emerge 17 years later. Its early years were mostly for general-purpose programming but now mostly airs programs for various demographics.

===1st ID (July 1, 1968-September 30, 1973)===

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'''Visuals:''' There is a camera panning around a cube. It eventually pans on the top side that displays the number "12". Then, the "12" zooms out, and "東京" (Tokyo) and "チャンネル" (channel) appear between the numbers. It then cuts into the TV station's info (including frequency and power) on a sign of arrows, similar to the one used by [[JOAX-DTV (Nippon Television)|Nippon Television]]. Later, 4 circles at the center rotate to form two intersecting ellipses. The "12" logo then zooms inside the rotating circles. Finally, the radio waves zoom out, and "Tokyo 12 Channel" is shown.

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'''Visuals:''' There is no video footage of this ident, but it contains three still images: the channel's logo, a slide containing the following station information  

"東京12チャンネル　JOTX-TV 映像周波数　217.25メガヘルツ 音声周波数　221.75メガヘルツ 映像出力　50キロワット 音声出力　12.5キロワット". (Tokyo 12 Channel JOTX-TV Video frequency 217.25 MHz Audio frequency 221.75 MHz Video output 50 kilowatts Audio output 12.5 kilowatts). It later cuts into a list of its relay stations.

'''Availability:''' As of now, only the audio of the opening exists online, but it should be preserved on home recordings from 1975-1979.

===3rd ID (April 1, 1979-September 30, 1981)===

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'''Visuals:''' In a strange room, the screen zooms up to a floating white sphere that opens up and starts shooting out projections through spotlights. These then erratically move about, revealing the landscape of a flower garden. The camera then rotates around the newly made flowers and flies off, all before fading to a fly-over shot of a forest, with mountains in the back and birds flying about. The sphere then flies back into the shot and shoots out more spotlights, transforming the shot into a desert landscape. The sphere flies up into the sky as the background fades to white, then to an overhead shot of an ocean. Dolphins can be seen leaping out of the water as the sphere returns to the screen and heads towards the clouds, fading back to white. It then fades into a shot of space, with the Earth and Moon in frame and "JOTX-TV" (on analog) or "JOTX-DTV" (on digital) zooming in slowly, before giving a pulse and shining away, as the sphere floats silently about. The sphere then closes up as 2 streaks, 1 {{color|red}} and 1 {{color|blue}}, orbit around the sphere as the background fades out. The sphere and streaks then zoom out and disappear, with the TV Tokyo logo fading into place, as well as a thick white outline.

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'''Visuals:''' The first clip of the video is a skyline footage of Tokyo during sunrise, which then switches to a closer view of multiple buildings. It then switches to a park with a chalkboard, where three people walk to it. The next clip shows one of the person picking up a chalk. The three people then draws across the entire chalkboard, with the footage being a time-lapse. After a while, the three walks away, showing a drawing of six kids on a grassfields surrounded by bubbles pointing to the sky. After a closer look at the drawing, the three return to draw, where a person with a white dress and a white umbrella obstructs the middle, looking at the three drawing. After the three finsih drawing and walk away, the person in the white dress also walks away, revealing the TV Tokyo logo and the text "JOTX-DTV" below it on the chalkboard. The camera zooms in on the logo, after which the text "JOTX-DTV" then gets applied with a chalkboard effect, and an image of the TV Tokyo logo is put on top of the TV Tokyo logo on the chalkboard.