Hato no kyojitsu
Hato no kyojitsu (鳩の休日, lit. Dove's Day Off) is a one-minute-long station identification video that airs on Nippon Television in Japan when the station signs on in the morning and signs off at night.
History
The program began broadcasting on 28 August 1953 in black and white then colour introduced to the country on 10 September 1960. The video was discontinued on 1 October 2001, but a new version of the video was aired regularly from 1 April 2008 as a part of the station's 55th anniversary celebrations.
Synopsis
The video is accompanied by a custom-made orchestra piece (composed by Shirō Fukai), and features three doves, each representing the three televisions networks in Japan at the time (NHK, Nippon Television, and TBS). The doves begin to fly off one by one, and eventually, only one dove remains: the one representing Nippon Television.
Although in later years, more national television networks began broadcasting, no new doves were added to represent these new networks.
The video is then followed by standard station identification.
Cancellation and Reairing
Due to reasons unknown, the program was pulled from the air on 1 October 2001, and was replaced by a simple station identification program. However, the voice for the resumption of this program was strong, and on 1 April 2008, a new, CGI version of the program was produced, as a part of the station's 55th Anniversary celebrations.
Just before midnight on July 24 2011, the date of Japanese analog television switchoff in most regions, the original (colour) version was broadcast on NTV's analog signal in Tokyo, with the addition of "58年間ありがとうございました" (Thank you for 58 years) to the NTV logo screen. This was not broadcast on other NHK stations, which switched off with the analog television warning screens.
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