Corporation Name
TOKYO METROPOLITAN TELEVISION BROADCASTING Corporation
Branding
TOKYO MX
Call Sign
JOMX-DTV
Founded
April 30,1993
First air date
November 1,1995
Headquarter
1-12 Koujimachi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo,102-8002 Japan
Branch Office
Tama News Center
1-10-25 Nishikicho,Tachikawa City, Tokyo,190-0022 Japan
Coordinates
35.7101°N, 139.8107°E(TOKYO SKYTREE)
ERP
3kW
Equity Capital
JPY 4.8 billion
Service Area
The whole Tokyo Met. area including part of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa Pref.
Businesses
1. General TV broadcasting in accordance with the Broadcast Law
2. Planning, sales and production of TV programs and video, movie, publishment etc.
Affiliated Company
- MX ENTERTAINMENT Corporation
- MX TECHNICAL SERVICE Corporation
- ACT FIRST Co., Ltd.
- TOKYO CHANNEL 9 Corporation
Corporate History
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Jan.1991
Channel 14 is allocated to Tokyo Metropolitan area
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Mar.1991
Applies for the license of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently, MIC, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
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Dec.1992
Holds a Founders' Meeting
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Feb.1993
Granted provisional license by MIC
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Apr.1993
Foundation of TOKYO METROPOLITAN TELEVISION BROADCASTING Corporation
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Oct.1995
Relocates the head office to Telecom Center building at New Tokyo Waterfront Officially licensed as JOMX-TV by MIC
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Nov.1995
Launches broadcasting business on 1st November
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Jan.2000
Establishes MX MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC
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Apr.2003
Obtains a preliminary license of terrestrial digital broadcasting by MIC
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Sep.2003
Business alliance with XING-SHANG Channel of SMG in China
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Dec.2003
Launches first terrestrial digital broadcasting on 1st December
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Mar.2005
Reduces paid-in capital from 15 billion yen to 4,335,629,209 yen
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Nov.2005
Agreement of exchange TV-programs with TV SEOUL in Korea
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Jul.2006
Launches full scale digital broadcasting (broadcasting to mobile media and datacasting) on 1st July Completes relocation of head office to the present address
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Mar.2007
Business alliance with ORF in Austria
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May.2007
Business alliance with ITN in U.K.
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Jun.2008
Launches "1-seg 2 service" (Broadcast dual program simultaneously in 1-seg broadcasting) Business alliance with QTV (QING-DAO TV) in China
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May.2009
Launches a PR campaign, "Cute! 9ch Campaign"
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Jul.2010
Changes company's trade name from MX MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Corporation to MX ENTERTAINMENT Corporation
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Nov.2010
15th anniversary
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Jan.2011
Authorized the relocation of broadcasting antenna to TOKYO SKYTREE
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May.2011
Agreement of business partnership with OBS Gyeongin TV in Korea
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Jul.2011
Full transition to terrestrial digital broadcasting
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Aug.2011
1 billion yen increase in capital
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Feb.2012
Test of broadcasting transmission from TOKYO SKYTREE
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Oct.2012
Full scale digital broadcasting from TOKYO SKYTREE
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May.2013
Completes transition of full scale digital broadcasting from Tokyo Tower to TOKYO SKYTREE
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Apr.2014
Launches 2-channel simultaneous broadcasting of 24 hours
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May.2015
Business alliance with CRI in China
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Jul.2015
Launches "M-Cas", the application that simultaneously delivers users tv-programs via internet,as the demonstration experiment
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Sep.2015
Business alliance with DTV (DALIAN TV) in China
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Nov.2015
20th anniversary
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Jul.2016
Establishes MX TECHNICAL SERVICE Corporation
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Dec.2016
Business alliance with JAK-TV in Indonesia
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Jan.2019
Announces corporate message "TSUNAGERU-TV"
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Dec.2020
Makes ACT FIRST Co., Ltd. a subsidiary
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Apr.2022
Eastablishes TOKYO CHANNEL 9 Corporation