JOQI-DTV (Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions)

Credits

Descriptions by
2K-tan, TheLogoFan2004 and ILEnthusiast

Captures by
Camenati

Video captures courtesy of
bgusdu10

Background

Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions Co., Ltd. (KKT, stylized as kkt!, callsign JOQI-DTV) is a Japanese television company that serves as the affiliate of the Nippon Television-run NNN/NNS network for the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan. The station signed on April 1, 1982.

1st ID (April 1, 1982-November 30, 2006)

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Visuals:

• Startup: On a space background, three red lines swirl around from the edges from the screen and meet at their centers. As they rotate, they flip out of frame before becoming a red outline of Japan flipping in. The outline then zooms towards the lower left area of it, flashing twice as it goes on. The map then fades out except for the area closest to the screen as a grid forms of the Kumamoto prefecture and stretches over the screen. The background then fades to black as "flames" rise up from the bottom of the screen. They wipe away to reveal green lines waving around, in which those move away as sparkles rain down across the screen. All three effects then reappear in three sections as a cut-out of the logo at the time, a red "KKT" with the second "K" having green and blue as well, appear before filling in with the colors and U-turning towards the screen on a space background. The logo then fills with multicolored lines and fades to those lines, in which there are several shots of them in different patterns. On the final pattern shot, the same cut-out, but on a white background, fades in again and fills in again. The logo then zooms out as a box appears and the text "くまもと県民テレビ" flips in below the logo. After that it fades to a blue background with the callsigns "JOQI-TV" in white before fading to reveal the station information. After that, the KKT logo animation is played.
• Closedown: After the logo animation and the station information are played, the KKT logo appears as it zooms out to a starry sky background as it turns into a flash before fading to black.

Technique: Scanimate animation by Toyo Laboratory (currently known as Imagica).

Audio:

• Startup: The station's theme, called Live on Fire performed by Makoto Mitsui. The station still uses this jingle to this day and there are even extended and karaoke versions that were distributed via cassette tapes, both of which can be heard here.
• Closedown: A gentle piano version of the KKT theme.

Variant:

• Sometime during the 1990s, the station information became a scroll and under the crawl is KKT's original mascot, K-zou an elephant who wears glasses and breathes fire from his trunk. During the closedown a illustration of him from the back can be seen,
• On April 1, 2000, when KKT began simulcasting with NNN24 at midnight instead of closing down on certain days, KKT shortened the length of the startup from two and a half minutes to just one minute.
• Around 2001, K-zou was removed from the station information scroll.

Legacy: Some people may not like the psychedelic effects, but it's a calming logo and a favorite of most TV viewers of the region.

2nd ID (December 1, 2006-July 23, 2017)

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Visuals: There is a shot of Mt. Kinpo as the camera slowly moves to the left and zooms out to reveal a river and more towns within Kumamoto Prefecture. It crossfades to a shot of a leaves with branches before a white, black bordered "JOQI-TV" (analog) or "JOQI-DTV" (digital) with the 1982 KKT logo and the words "くまもと県民テレビ" in black at the right fades in. The background cuts to a live-action waterfall and crossfades to a close-up of a stream before fading to a shot of Kumamoto City.

Variant: Beginning on January 1, 2017, KKT's logo was changed, which now consists of the words "KKT" colored in blue, yellow, green and orange, in lowercase and in italics with an exclamation mark on the left.

Technique: A mix of live-action footage with a superimposed graphic.

Audio:

• Startup: The station's theme, Live on Fire.
• Closedown: The 1982 piano rearrangement of the KKT theme.

3rd ID (July 24, 2017-)

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Visuals: There is a shot of KKT's Chūō-Ku headquarters as it pans up. It crossfades into another shot of the building. After that, it crossfades to a shot of a mountain over a city skylines as it zooms towards the transmitter, and another transmitter zooming out while moving to the left on a cities. It then cuts to a shot of a buttons and KKT's master control center inside, which crossfades to a series of images and shots inside the master control center. After that, it crossfades into a shot of a train passing through the bridge over the river within a forest, where a white, black bordered, sans-serif "JOQI-DTV" with the 2017 "KKT" logo below with "くまもと県民テレビ" at the right of it fades in. Shots of a house, flats, a temple, and a TV station appears after the train while the logo and text are present.

Technique: A mix of live-action footage with a superimposed graphic.

Audio:

• Startup: The station's theme, Live on Fire.
• Closedown: A rearrangement of the KKT piano theme composed by Yuuya Kobayashi.