These 12 hours of news were divided into 5 daily blocks: morning, noon, evening, night, and overnight.

As the struggles continued, Muraki resigned in June 1996, and station VP and General Manager Kazuo Kinumura was dismissed that following August.

[2] The crisis began to be sorted by June 1997, after FM Tokyo stepped up and bought a controlling stake at the broadcaster.

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, and infomercials during off-peak timeslots.

The station commenced its digital terrestrial television signal on December 1, 2003, and would rebrand as Tokyo MX in July 2006, after moving to new headquarters in the Chiyoda ward.

Since then, the station has aired many hits including the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Broken Blade, the Love Live!

The station has also gone to air reruns of other popular anime such as Dragon Ball and Gundam, along with Bushiroad's BanG Dream!

[4] In 2022, Tokyo MX became broadcaster of 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar from November 20 to December 18 with Abema/TV Asahi, NHK, and Fuji TV as a part of Japan Consortium.