Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 1006 News of the Name Change from Britain: J-League Established
In October, the mornings at Victoria Peak are cool and pleasant with a gentle breeze.

Wearing a bathrobe, Hideki Hanyu stood on the rooftop balcony of the mansion at 35 Barker Road, enjoying the gentle morning breeze while listening to Kaoru Chiba report on her work.

Although he has come to Hong Kong, the work he needs to take care of comes from all over the world.

For example, in the UK, after Abovecloud TV completed its acquisition of the UK satellite broadcasting company, the UK Cloud Satellite Broadcasting Company was established.

After several months of operation, the new satellite TV station has gradually gained recognition from viewers, especially its newly established pay-TV sports channel, which holds the rights to numerous sports events and is developing very smoothly among viewers.

Even without the Premier League, a major competition, the company has attracted considerable attention simply by holding the broadcasting rights for League One.

However, the broadcasting rights for League One are not exclusive. The reason why viewers are willing to pay to watch is naturally because the new pay-TV sports channel has adopted a lot of the new broadcasting technology from Abovecloud TV's parent company, Cloud Satellite TV.

In addition to the visual advantages brought by broadcasting technology, some activities based on live broadcasting also give the audience a sense of participation in the competition.

It's a pity they haven't secured the exclusive broadcasting rights for League One yet; otherwise, they could use more advanced broadcasting technologies to enhance the viewing experience for the audience.

For example, viewers can take advantage of the features of satellite broadcasting to choose their preferred viewing channel, commentators, and even viewing angle.

This is just one of the many technologies used by cloud-based satellite television in sports broadcasting.

As for why Cloud Satellite TV is developing so many sports broadcasting technologies, besides having its own satellites to experiment with freely, it is also related to their business in Japan.

That is the future J-League, the famous Japanese professional football league, which has been officially established.

However, the J-League in this timeline is different from the J-League in another timeline.

In another timeline, this top-tier professional football league in Japan was jointly founded by the Japan Football Association, the Japan Professional Football League (JPL), and the clubs that initially joined the league.

Meanwhile, in this time and space, the Japanese Football Association and other third-party organizations had already begun to conceive of this league.

When Hitomi Kuroki's agency entered the e-sports arena, they mentioned this to Hideki Hanyu.

Hideki Hanyu originally planned to wait until the J-League was established before having his team join and to cooperate with the J-League on broadcasting rights.

However, as Hideki Hanyu founded a baseball team and a soccer team in Sendai, and as his strength and power in Japan grew, he no longer wanted to waste time waiting for the J-League.

Impatient Hideki Hanyu simply used his power and the influence of the Cloud Sect to personally promote the establishment of Japan's highest-level professional football league.

Among them, Cloud Satellite TV is naturally the most proactive.

Even before the league was even in the works, they began collaborating with the "Sendai Elf Club" to continuously develop various technologies for satellite broadcasting of the matches.

With Hideki Hanyu's talent as a backing, the influence of the Yunshang Group as a driving force, and the constantly innovative broadcasting technology of Yunshang Satellite TV, the company has achieved remarkable success.

In this context, when Hideki Hanyu announced his intention to establish the "J-League," many Japanese football clubs that saw the commercial potential responded to his call and expressed their desire to "work together with Hideki Hanyu on this great undertaking."

As more and more clubs joined forces to discuss creating a new professional league, the Japanese government naturally couldn't sit still and began to get involved as well.

Therefore, the establishment of the "J League" in this timeline is not, like in another timeline, a top-down transformation process.

Instead, it was established through a bottom-up process, driven by club members joining and improving the organization.

However, for his own benefit and for the development of the J-League, Hideki Hanyu did not want the J-League to become a ridiculous commercial game like the leagues of the past, so he did not obstruct the participation of the official departments.

However, as the initiator of the new league and the driving force behind this event, Hideki Hanyu... or more accurately, the Cloud faction, naturally wields a great deal of influence within the league.

In practice, this means that Cloud Satellite TV became the broadcasting service provider for the J-League and secured the exclusive broadcasting rights for the first eight seasons of the J-League.

Moreover, it is foreseeable that even if the broadcasting rights expire in eight years, it will be difficult for others to snatch the broadcasting rights from Yunshang Satellite TV.

Besides the differences that led to the formation of the league, the new J-League also has some other differences.

For example, the newly established J-League did not adopt the original spring start and autumn end schedule when setting its schedule.

Instead, referencing the season schedule of European professional football, it was changed to begin in the fall and end in the spring.

In this way, the J-League's schedule is perfectly aligned with the world's schedule.

Furthermore, the start date of the first season has been moved forward from 1993 in another timeline to the following year, the fall of 1991, when the brand-new J-League will officially begin.

In terms of teams, the J-League in another timeline only had ten clubs when it was founded, while in this timeline, under the leadership of Hideki Hanyu, it started with fourteen clubs.

Even before the league has officially started, they have already begun planning to establish a second-tier league, laying the groundwork for the implementation of a promotion and relegation system.

In conclusion, with Hideki Hanyu as the mastermind behind the scenes, the J-League in this timeline had a fairly complete system from the moment it was established, thus avoiding many detours.

Of course, Hideki Hanyu did this purely for the sake of Cloud Satellite TV. After all, he didn't have time to wait for the J-League to slowly grow. He needed the league to generate buzz immediately after its inception to increase Cloud Satellite TV's paid subscribers.

As for indirectly helping the development of Japanese football, he never even considered it.

Besides, even if he didn't help promote it, Japanese football would still develop as it was meant to.

Just like domestic football, even if the fans curse loudly, it will still be terribly bad.

Because of the British satellite broadcasting company Cloud, Hideki Hanyu's thoughts drifted to the development of football in Japan.

Just then, during his report, Kaoru Chiba raised a question to him.

"Mr. Yuzuru, at a recent board meeting of the UK's Cloud Satellite Broadcasting Corporation, someone suggested that the name of the television station was not concise enough and proposed changing the name."

After deliberation by the board, they ultimately shortened the name to Cloud, and our representative would like to ask for your opinion on this.

"Cloud? Cloud TV?"

Hideki Hanyu feels that the translated name always sounds a bit strange.

Actually, if possible, he would very much like to buy the Sky TV name from Murdoch.

Sky TV and Sky Sports sound catchy and appropriate.

Unfortunately, he and Murdoch are now competitors in the global media industry, and Murdoch would never do something as lucrative as selling a TV station's name to his enemy.

However, what he found strange was the translation.

If we're really going to talk about it, the new name is definitely more distinctive than the previous abbreviation "BAC," since a TV station with these three letters is practically everywhere in the world.

Furthermore, before he had Abovecloud TV acquire the British satellite broadcaster, he deliberately used a different shell company to acquire Abovecloud TV, in order to separate Abovecloud TV from its parent company as much as possible.

Now that the name has been changed again, it will be difficult for anyone to associate the two together in the future.

With that in mind, Hideki Yuzuru said to Kaoru Chiba, "Since it's a decision made by the board of directors, I have no objections."

"I understand, I will reply to them on your behalf."

After saying that, Chiba Kaoru continued to report, "Mr. Yuzuru, regarding the Asian cinema chain, I have contacted all the invitees in advance according to the list you provided, and they have all indicated that they will attend."

So we need to set the date for which day so I can notify them in advance.

After Chiba Kaoru finished speaking, Hideki Yuzuru considered for a moment and then gave a time, "Let's set it for two days from now. The location is in the Hehe Center, on my private floor. Don't forget to inform Peter Fang."

The Asian cinema chain is the most important thing that Hideki Hanyu needs to deal with during his trip to Hong Kong.

As for what it was, it was actually about listing Asian cinema chains in Hong Kong. And the reason for doing so was, of course, that Hideki Hanyu was planning ahead and preparing for the mainland market.

In the mainland's film and entertainment industry, restrictions on foreign investment are very strict, and it will take a long time before these restrictions are gradually lifted.

On the contrary, after Hong Kong's return to China, there were very few restrictions on pure Hong Kong capital.

Therefore, Hideki Hanyu needs to use capital means to "launder" Asia Cinema Line, which has been acquired by New Moon Cinema Line, back into a Hong Kong company on the surface.

For this reason, he was willing to share the Asian cinema market with the Hong Kong film industry.

Of course, looking at future developments, saying it's about dividing the cake is less accurate than saying it's about cashing out at the peak.

After all, Hong Kong cinema is currently at its peak, but it will begin to decline noticeably in a few years.

By cashing out at the peak and simultaneously preparing for entering the mainland market, Hideki Hanyu has achieved two goals at once.

Of course, for his plan to get a share of the pie, all these people had to be from Hong Kong.

As for how Hideki Hanyu will control the Asian cinema market after the pie is divided up, that remains to be seen.

Whether it's using Hong Kong's capital as a front or employing dual-class share structures in other listed companies, as long as it can "whitewash" Asian cinemas, these are all minor issues.

"Yes, Mr. Yuzuru."

After Chiba Kaoru responded, the report on work was considered complete.

However, after finishing talking about work, she immediately reported a personal matter.

"Mr. Yuzuru, Ms. Zhou Wenqiong from China contacted me yesterday and asked me to tell you that she will be coming to Hong Kong tomorrow to conduct business."

"Is Xiao Qiong coming to Hong Kong?"

Only after being reminded by Kaoru Chiba did Hideki Hanyu realize it.

When I watched the Asian Games opening ceremony in the capital last time, I did hear Zhou Wenqiong say that Qionghua Entertainment wanted to sign a singer in Guangzhou and wanted to "borrow the tiger's power" by using Cloud Music's headquarters in Hong Kong.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Wenqiong's visit to Hong Kong coincided with his.

Considering that he was going to Shanghai at the end of the month to attend the completion ceremony of Yunhua Plaza, if Zhou Wenqiong wasn't in a hurry to leave, they could go back to China together.

Hideki Yuzuru immediately instructed, "I understand. Arrange for someone to deliver the Mercedes SUV from Repulse Bay to the house in Causeway Bay. Also, please tell Xiaoqiong that I will personally drive to the border to pick them up tomorrow."

"Yes, Mr. Yuzuru. If there are no other instructions, I'll get back to work now."

"Go."

Hideki Hanyu waved his hand, and Kaoru Chiba turned and left.

No sooner had Kaoru Chiba left than a female personal assistant came to inform Hideki Hanyu.

"Mr. Yuzuru, breakfast is ready. You may go to the dining room for your meal."

"Ah."

Hideki Hanyu turned and walked towards the restaurant.

The female assistant asked again, "Mr. Yuzuru, should I call Ms. Li to have lunch?"

The "Ms. Li" mentioned by the female assistant was naturally Lee Young-ae, who had been brought back by Hideki Hanyu last night.

"Go and call them..."

Hideki Yuzuru had just agreed when he changed his mind and said, "Never mind, I'll go myself."

Because it was Lee Young-ae's first time last night, Hideki Yuzuru didn't push her too hard, only taking a light approach before letting her rest early.

So it's not too early to wake them up now, and eating something can also help their bodies recover.

After finishing his sentence, Hideki Yuzuru walked back to his bedroom.

Next, in the bedroom, the scumbag couldn't resist flirting with Lee Young-ae, who had just become a woman, and coaxing the beauty to get up and eat.

After all, he had just acquired this woman, and she was still very new to him, so Hideki Yuzuru didn't mind putting some thought into the details.

When Hideki Hanyu came out of the bedroom again, he was already holding Lee Young-ae, who was still clinging to the scumbag.

After carrying the beauty to the restaurant, Hideki Hanyu and the two began their intimate breakfast together.

One is experiencing forbidden fruit for the first time, filled with infatuation.

One reason is the novelty factor, which makes them willing to cooperate.

They ate breakfast together so affectionately, it was almost like they were feeding each other.

After breakfast, Hideki Hanyu drove Lee Young-ae out for a drive and shopping in the Lamborghini Gallardo S that he had prepared for the house and that had been sitting in the garage collecting dust.

With the beauty he had just acquired, Hideki Yuzuru wandered around Hong Kong for what seemed like the umpteenth time.

He didn't care at all whether he would be photographed by reporters during this time.

Anyway, they were spotted shopping yesterday, so I guess the media has already reported on it.

The company can just come up with any excuse, like preparing for commercial promotion, whether you believe it or not is irrelevant.

However, after shopping until evening, Hideki Hanyu did not take Lee Young-ae back to the house on Barker Road, but instead went to the luxury apartment on the top floor of Causeway Bay.

Since he bought the Kadoorie Hill mansion for Li Jiaxin, this luxury apartment in Causeway Bay has become his rabbit hutch.

However, after 35 Barker Road was completed, the rabbit hutch was no longer needed and was used as a place for Lee Young-ae to stay.

Although the other party is only using Hong Kong movies to gain exposure, they will definitely come to Hong Kong to work frequently in the future in order to further consolidate their popularity.

Staying here is better than staying in a hotel; at least it'll be easier for scumbags to meet up in secret.

Back at the apartment, the young couple, still deeply in love, inevitably engaged in a passionate lovemaking session.

I couldn't sleep all night, and the days and months passed quickly until the next morning.

Lee Young-ae, who is still asleep after being subjected to Hideki Hanyu's full force last night, probably won't wake up until the afternoon.

Meanwhile, the scumbag, completely unaffected, not only got up early full of energy, but even had time to call Xiang Qiang during his meal to ask for another day off for Li Ying'ai, saying that she could only return to the film set to start work the next day.

Of course, he also reminded Xiang Qiang to make sure he attended the gathering at the Hopewell Centre tomorrow.

After hanging up the phone, Hideki Yuzuru left a note for Lee Young-ae, saying that he had to deal with work for the next few days and would not be able to accompany her any longer. He then went downstairs, got in his car, and headed straight for the border crossing in the New Territories.

Since he had promised to personally pick up the person at the port, he naturally wouldn't go back on his word.

　Even if the Xiang brothers use homophones in their full names, the system will automatically censor them, so the middle part has to be removed and the names changed to two characters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)