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Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corporation
Tokyo MX
Native name
Đông kinh メトロポリタンテレビジョン chu thức hội xã
Tōkyō metoroporitanterebijon kabushikigaisha
Company typePrivate
Founded30 April 1993Edit this on Wikidata
JOMX-DTV
CityKojimachi,Chiyoda, Tokyo
Channels
BrandingTokyo MX
Programming
AffiliationsIndependent(member ofJAITS)
Ownership
OwnerTokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corporation
owned by:
History
FoundedApril 30, 1993
First air date
November 1, 1995
Former call signs
JOMX-TV (1995–2011)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
14 (UHF, 1995–2011)
Digital:
20 (UHF, 2003–2013)
Call signmeaning
Metropolitan
X
(sequentially assigned)
Technical information
Licensing authority
MIC
ERP3 kW (11.5 kWERP)
Links
Websites.mxtv.jp

JOMX-DTV(channel 9), branded asTokyo MX(officially stylized asTOKYO MX), is anindependent television stationinTokyo,Japan,owned by theTokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corporation[1].It is the only television station that exclusively serves the city and parts of nearby prefectures. It competes withNippon Television,TV Asahi,NHK General TV,TBS TV,TV Tokyo,andFuji TV,all of which areflagship stationsof national networks. Tokyo MX was founded on April 30, 1993, and broadcasts commenced on November 1, 1995. Shareholders include theTokyo Metropolitan Government,Tokyo FM Broadcasting,and others. (MXTV is anassociate companyofTokyo FM.)

Every week, Tokyo MX airs the press conferences of theGovernor of Tokyo.It is a member of theJapanese Association of Independent Television Stations(JAITS).

History[edit]

On April 30, 1993, a group led by formerDai-Ichi Kangyo Bank(nowMizuho Bank) employee Tetsuo Fujimori founded the Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corporation to construct a fifth commercial television station that would be licensed to Tokyo. The station received its license on October 13, 1995, and began test transmissions two days later under the nameMX-TV.MX-TV signed on the air on November 1, 1995, at 4:00 JST with a 14-hour long introductory program entitled "Countdown MX Television"(カウントダウンMXテレビ,Kauntodaun MX Terebi);regular broadcast commenced at 18:00 JST that same day.

The station's first executive producer was Yoshihiko Muraki, a former producer at TV Man Union, a production company related toTBS.Inspired by theNew York-focused news channelNY1,Muraki wanted to differentiate the station from its longer established competitors by dedicating 12 hours of programming daily to rolling news, and the rest to alternative programming focusing on the Tokyo region. The news programming, under the name Tokyo News(Đông kinh NEWS),revolutionised Japanese TV news by introducing the concept ofvideo journalism,in which the station's journalists recorded, produced, and edited their stories, alongside reporting on them. These 12 hours of news were divided into 5 daily blocks: morning, noon, evening, night, and overnight. It also offered reports live from the Metropolitan Police Department, theTokyo Metropolitan Government Building,and the Telecom Center building, where the station's original headquarters were housed.

The station suffered in its first years for a poor signal and heavy management disputes. Some of the shareholders lacked any kind of TV broadcasting experience, and scandals arose over the operation and shareholding structure of the broadcaster. Additionally, its analog signal from Tokyo Tower did not cover the entire region, with their signal being poor in the eastern-most parts of the city. As the struggles continued, Muraki resigned in June 1996, and station VP and General Manager Kazuo Kinumura was dismissed that following August. In September, the station's Programming Committee resigned. Shortly thereafter, and in the wake of theAsian financial crisis,the station began to suffer from serious economic problems.[2]

The crisis began to be sorted by June 1997, afterFM Tokyostepped up and bought a controlling stake at the broadcaster. As part of the transaction,FM Tokyo's president Wataru Goto and Odakyu Electric Railway chairman Tsutomu Shimizu were appointed as president and vice president. Goto and Shimizu decided to drop the ambitious news format and reposition the channel as a more generalist broadcaster with a strong local focus. Although news programming was retained, albeit in a reduced form and in a more traditional format, the station began adding more entertainment programming, including locally oriented variety shows and coverage of local sports, as well as late-night anime, andinfomercialsduring off-peak timeslots. This improved the station's ratings and finances, and the company became profitable by 2002.[3]

Tokyo Metropolitan Television old headquarters (1995–2006): Telecom Center Building

On December 12, 2000, MX-TV was rebranded asTokyo MX Television(Đông kinh MXテレビ,Tōkyō MX Terebi).The station commenced itsdigital terrestrial televisionsignal on December 1, 2003, and would rebrand asTokyo MXin July 2006, after moving to new headquarters in theChiyodaward. These moves would ultimately hamper, once again, the station's finances, but the launch of digital terrestrial broadcasts would allow the station's signal to be in a par with its competitors and allowing more viewers to see their programming. Ultimately, the station would recover from these financial difficulties by 2011.

Tokyo MXshut downits analog broadcasts on July 24, 2011. It launched transmissions from theTokyo Skytreeon August 27, 2012, increasing their broadcasting footprint to cover the immediate outskirts of Tokyo city; the station also established a street-side studio in the building where variety programmes are broadcast. As a result of this, Tokyo MX stopped broadcasting its signal from the Tokyo Tower on May 12, 2013.

A second channel, Tokyo MX2, began broadcasting in April 2014. The channel operates on the second sub-channel of Tokyo MX1 and is primarily dedicated to alternative programming.

The station celebrated its 20th anniversary on November 1, 2015.

Anime on Tokyo MX[edit]

Tokyo MX is known to air most late-night anime. Previously, the station only aired anime classics such asHeidi, Girl of the AlpsandTouch.When the affiliate stations of major Japanese networks serving theKantō regionstarted airing less late-night anime in 2006, the station discovered that such anime would give them more ratings, and started airing them in October. On weekday evenings, thePretty Cureseries, which airs onTV Asahi,aired in reruns on Tokyo MX. Since then, the station has aired many hits including theJoJo's Bizarre Adventureseries,Broken Blade,theLove Live!series,Attack on TitanandDr. Stone.The station has also gone to air reruns of other popular anime such asDragon BallandGundam.As Tokyo MX serves only Tokyo, their anime programming air elsewhere in Japan on member stations of theJapanese Association of Independent Television Stations(includingKBS Kyoto,TV Kanagawa,Gunma TV,SUN TVandTV Saitama) which MX is a member of, theJNN/TBSKansaiaffiliateMBSor sometimesANN/TV Asahi Kansai affiliateABC.[4]

Programming[edit]

Main article:List of anime broadcast by Tokyo MX

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Đông kinh メトロポリタンテレビジョン chu thức hội xã,Tōkyō Metoroporitan Terebijon kabushiki gaisha
  2. ^"２０２０ niên １１ nguyệt ２ nhật khai cục ký niệm thức hội trường ・ xã trường ai tạt"(PDF)(Press release) (in Japanese). Tokyo MX.Retrieved31 August2021.
  3. ^"Tokyo MX annual business report from 2018"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on July 28, 2018.
  4. ^Harunoto (7 June 2014)."Tại kinh アニメファンを chi えるTOKYO MXに, khí になること toàn bộ văn いてみた!"[Why is anime on Tokyo MX popular?].ddnavi.com(in Japanese).Retrieved6 February2020.
  5. ^"その kết hôn, chính khí ですか?".Tokyo MX.RetrievedMay 2,2024.
  6. ^"おじさんが tư の luyến を ứng viện しています ( 脳 nội )".Tokyo MX.RetrievedMay 2,2024.
  7. ^"Phiến luyến グルメ nhật ký ２".Tokyo MX.RetrievedMay 2,2024.

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