maotv

Omaezaki Cable Television, der städtische Kabelbetreiber, lokal bekannt als Mao-mao, hat nie für sein eigenes Netz bezahlt. Subventionen für die Kernkraftwerksansiedlung finanzierten 2001 das Koaxialkabel, und die Stadtkasse kaufte die Glasfaser, die es 2019 ersetzte.

Omaezaki Cable Television, the municipal cable operator known locally as Mao-mao, never paid for its own network. Nuclear-siting grants strung the coax in 2001, and the city treasury bought the fibre that replaced it in 2019. What is left is a strange and instructive creature: one of Japan's most profitable small operators, sitting on a nine-figure cash pile, in a town that loses roughly one household every day and a paymaster that has begun to ask, in writing, whether it should still own the thing at all.