Hato no kyojitsu is a one-minute-long video that airs Nippon Television

Nippon Television

is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...

 in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 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, and began to be broadcast in colour on 1 July 1972. 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, and features three doves, each representing the three televisions networks in Japan at the time (NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

, Nippon Television

Nippon Television

is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...

, and TBS

Tokyo Broadcasting System

, TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....

). The doves began to fly off one by one, and eventually, only one doves remain: 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.