TV Tokyo

JOTX-DTV branded as TV Tokyo (Japanese: ) shortly known as Teleto (), is a Japanese television station licensed to Tokyo, serving the Kanto region as the flagship of the TX Network, along with five local affiliates around Japan. It is owned by TV Tokyo Corporation, part of the TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation since 2010, majority controlled by Nikkei, Inc. Its studios and offices are located in Roppongi, Minato and is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime.
==Science TV Tokyo Channel 12==
===1964–1968===
The station was founded in 1951, and launched on April 12, 1964 as JOTX-TV (). Its first logo was a classic television channel adjustment, signing as number 12 VHF which was an analog TV channel that lasted until July 24, 2011. Its wordmark was a placed next to the adjustment.
==Tokyo Channel 12==
===1968–1981===
On July 1, 1968, the company was renamed Tokyo Channel 12 Production Limited. Later, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper decides to buy the TV network, and Channel 12 was turned into a commercial broadcaster. As of its wordmark, it was called officially on October 1973 as .
====1968–1979====
Its logo as Tokyo Channel 12 Television was a number 12, aligning the two arranged digits the number one ahead of the number two.
====1979–1981====
Later the number 12 entered the vintage TV screen, and the wordmark was placed underneath the screen.
==TV Tokyo==
===1981–1998===
In 1981, the station rebranded as Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd. or for short as shown in its wordmark. When the MegaTON Network was founded one year later, it expanded throughout Japan with TV Osaka, and TV Aichi in Nagoya later in 1983. By 1989, the station began colloquially branding itself as TX.
====1981–1985====
Its wordmark along with number 12 with doubled line (similar to the Sega logo) were green. This is the first variation of the TV Tokyo wordmark styling above, which was used between 1981 and 1985. 
==== 1985–1998====
On December 12, 1985, TV Tokyo modified its logo when its headquarters were moved to Toranomon, located in the Minato ward. This time, the wordmark was red, and the number twelve was Sky Blue with a single line.
===1998–2023===
On October 1, 1998, TV Tokyo introduced a new logo, ending the number twelve brand, and its wordmark was replaced with the Latin alphabet.
===2023–present===
TVTokyo 2024logo ja-shortVersion.svg|Japanese version
TV Tokyo 2024logo.svg|English version
Earlier in the month of October 2023, an X (Twitter) user spotted a trademark filing uploaded on the Japan Platform for Patent InformationKawasakiberumaTV on X (Twitter) (9 October 2023), which shows two variants of the new TV Tokyo logo, both of which were filed at the end of July that year. During that period, a user also spotted a newer logo shown on EPGs for BS TV Tokyo.fkcb222 on X (Twitter) (9 October 2023)
On October 23, 2023, TV Tokyo announced that it would update its logo as part of its 60th anniversary in April of the following year.TV Tokyo Holdings (23 October 2023). TV Tokyo renews its logo for the first time in 25 years! (in Japanese) This is one of the two variants that were spotted in the trademark filing; this time, using the abbreviation of the channel the wordmark brought the Japanese alphabets back with dark navy, and keeping the latin alphabet for international trademark; both the syllable テ (Te) and the letter T, show the number seven as the digital TV channel number with their pink stem and left arm. This logo was first used on November 13, 2023, making the first time the logo was changed after 25 years. BS TV Tokyo and other subsidiaries of TV Tokyo Holdings will also update their logos that day.
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