In its early years, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has called TXCN "CNN Headline News with a Texas flavor."

From that time until closure, TXCN aired repackaged content from the aforementioned stations in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.

This came at a time when the channel's viewership had decreased in the face of increased news consumption on digital and other non-television platforms, along with the nationwide streaming availability of the newscasts live or delayed of the stations contributing content for the network via their websites, effectively making the entire operation superfluous and duplicative.

In addition, the network did not broadcast in HD, which was nearly general for television news in the United States by the time of the shut-down announcement.

Until April 30, 2015, the webpage remained somewhat active, but many features have gradually shut down since the 2004 staffing cuts, leaving only the news headlines and weather updates from the four aforementioned stations via their websites' RSS feeds, and an outdated channel guide (still listed that DFW was being served by Comcast and Houston being served by Time Warner Cable even though the two clusters switched providers in August 2006).

The message also provided a list of all Texas-area Gannett stations—including its purchased London Broadcasting assets (now spun off to TEGNA Media as of June 29, 2015) and their corresponding websites.