JOFX-DTV (Tokai Television Broadcasting)

Background

JOFX-DTV is the main callsign of the Japanese TV station Tōkai Television Broadcasting (Tokai TV), headquartered in Nagoya. It is one of the main channels serving the Tōkai subregion. It was founded on February 1, 1958, commencing TV broadcasts on December 25, 1958, as Japan's 17th private television station.

1st ID (December 25, 1958-1965?)

Visuals: On a white background, there is a map of Japan that zooms into the Tōkai region. Just before it finishes zooming in, a circle with a white outline appears. Then, the number "1" appears, getting bigger as a white circle fills in the outlined circle. After the white circle finishes filling in the outlined circle, the text "Channel" appears and a bigger outlined white circle appears. A translucent white circle fills in part of the area of the outlined circle and after that, "1" and "Channel" appear again. Another translucent circle fills in the remainder of the area. After that, the text "JOFX-TV" in a geometric font appears and zooms in, while the circles disappear. Finally, the JOFX-TV text is replaced by "東海テレビ".

Technique: Camera-controlled animation for the zooming, with cel animation being used for the other parts.

Audio: A patriotic march with an announcer saying "JOFX-TV 第1チャンネル 東海テレビ放送です" at the end.

2nd ID (January 1, 1978-December 31, 1986)

Visuals:

• Startup: The ident starts with the skyline of Nagoya zooming into a transmission tower, later cutting into the ocean, some mountains, a temple, and finally another skyline that moves to a building with a transmission tower. The channel's name or logo dosen't appear.
• Closedown (used until 1981): On a blue background there is an illustration of a tower with some rays surrounding it. Below it are the words "東海ラジオ" (Tokai Radio, SF) and the station's watts power at that time (1,332 kHz). After that, the camera fades into a shot of the city of Nagoya during nighttime while the relay information is shown and after that, the 1965 THK symbol alongside the words "JOFX-TV" as the camera zooms into THK's building before fading out into some fountains surrounding the THK building before fading to black.

Technique: Startup: Live-action footage.

Audio:

• Startup: A triumphant fanfare.
• Closedown: An ethereal, dreamy tune.

4th ID (Closedown, 1982-1984)

Visuals:

Technique: Live-action footage.

Audio: "La chuche d'étain" performed by Claude Ciari.

5th ID (Closedown, 1984-December 31, 1986)

Visuals:

Technique: Live-action footage.

Audio: "La chuche d'étain" from the 4th ident, performed by Claude Ciari.

6th ID (Analog, January 1, 1987-July 23, 2011)

Visuals:

Variants:

• During the closedown ident, the animation is shown in black with the THK wordmark being in white.
• Around the 1990s, the animation was shortened.

Technique: Traditional cel animation by Tadahiko Horiguchi

Audio: A upbeat pop jingle composed by Hattori Kiyoshi.

Audio Variant: The closedown variant has a slow and gentle rendition of the startup jingle.

7th ID (Digital, December 1, 2003-January 1, 2018)

Visuals:

Variant: Around 2017, the footage was reshot.

Technique: Live-action footage

Audio: A piano sounding theme, which is an arrangement of "Across the Universe".

8th ID (January 2, 2018-2020)

Visuals:

• Startup:

• Closedown:

Technique: A mix of CGI and digital traditional animation.

Audio: A happy piano-sounding theme.

9th ID (2020-)

Visuals:

Technique: A mix of CGI and digital traditional animation.

Audio: A happy-sounding jingle.