Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank
On April 30, 1993, a group led by former Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (now Mizuho 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 name MX-TV. MX-TV signed on the air on November 1, 1995 at 4:00 JST with a 14-hour long introductory program entitled ; regular broadcast commenced at 18:00 JST that same day.