October 11, 2017
各位
TOKAI Holdings Corporation
Katsuhiko Tokita, President & CEO(Code No. 3167 Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section)

Cable TV Program Produced by TOKAI Group Company
Won the 4K of the Year in 4K Category
at “Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix” Award Competition
TOKAI Group announces that the cable television program produced by the cable TV business of TOKAIGroup won the 4K of the Year in the 4K category at the 43rd Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award
Competition. Please see the appendix for details.
Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition is held every year to honor the excellent programs
independently produced by the cable television production companies, the community-based visual information
media, which provide information on hometown and the local community, and to contribute to developing visual
information culture and transmitting information from local communities.
The program which won the 4K of the Year this year filmed and edited the Onbashira Festival held at Suwa
Grand Shrine which represents the tradition and culture of its community in 4K. The work was appreciated forvisual quality and expression using 4K technology. The Group received the awards two years in a row, following
the Grand Prix / Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award it received last year.
TOKAI Group's CATV business offers broadcasting and communications services in five prefectures: Shizuoka,Kanagawa, Chiba, Nagano, and Okayama. Our broadcasting services distribute information to 510 thousand
customers*1, and communication services are provided to 230 thousand customers*1. The business as a whole isranked 6th*2 in the industry.
The CATV business acquired Tokyo Bay Network Co, Ltd. with 250 thousand customers as a consolidated
subsidiary on July 20, 2017, and added Koto-ku and Chuo-ku, Tokyo, to the coverage areas.
We continue to promote the popularization of advanced broadcast service while developing the cable televisionbusiness and expanding the customer base by delivering the community-based information that captivates ourcustomers.
*1

As of the end of June 2017*2

Source: Cable Yearbook 2017, SATEMAGA BI Inc. The number of households capable of viewing cable television

Contact: Yoshihiro Taniguchi
Public Relations and Investor Relations Office
TEL: +81-(0)54-273-4878
Email: overseas_IR@tokaigroup.co.jp

September 21, 2017
TOKAI Cable Network Corporation

TV Program Produced by LCV Corporation,TOKAI Group's Affiliate Company, Won the 4K of the Year in the 4K Category
at the 43rd Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition
TOKAI Cable Network Corporation (Headquarters: Numazu City, Shizuoka Pref., Representative Director andPresident: Yasuhiro Fukuda; hereinafter “the Company”) promotes the development of optical network and thepenetration of the optical broadcasting service as the satellite broadcast in 4K resolution will practically start inDecember 2018. Moreover, the Company leads the initiatives to produce high-quality television programs with thestate-of-the-art 4K broadcasting technology and accumulate the 4K contents that will be handed down to the nextgenerations.
The Company announces today that LCV Corporation (Suwa City, Nagano Pref.; Representative Director andPresident: Kimihiro Yoshizawa), an affiliated company of TOKAI Group, won the 4K of the Year in the 4K category
at the 43rd Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition.
Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition is held by Japan Cable and Telecommunications
Association which consists of 371 ordinary and other members that engage in cable television business. A number ofprograms are sent from the cable television stations around the country and Grand Prix / Minister of Internal Affairs
and Communications Award is selected either from the Main Competition category in which a panel decides theoutstanding program as a video work or from the Community category in which a panel chooses the programs
created with a local perspective which is characteristic of CATV. Meanwhile, the 4K of the Year is selected from the4K category based on the quality and expression of the 4K video. LCV won the prize for two consecutive years
following the Grand Prix / Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Award it received last year.
The awarded program was one of the trilogy series “Onbashira” that filmed and edited the Onbashira Festival heldat Suwa Grand Shrine in 2016 with 4K technology. The trilogy consists of Yamadashi, Satobiki, and Omnibus, andthe program titled “Onbashira Yamadashi” features the ritual with magnificent scenes of “Kiotoshi (riding the log
down the hill)” and “Kawagoshi (pulling the log across the river),” the highlights of the festival. The program wasbroadcasted nation-wide through “Cable 4K”, the 4K channel dedicated to cable television, on Saturday, May 7,
2016.

■Title: “Onbashira Yamadashi”■SummaryOnbashira Festival held in Suwa Area every seven years is an important religious event at Suwa Grand Shrinewith a history of more than 1300 years. Ujiko, a group from the land surrounding the areas dedicated to the worshipof the shrine, works as the volunteers to support the festival. LCV shot this traditional culture in high-quality 4K
format and brought life to the exciting and beautiful video. The program is valuable as a visual record which captures
the enthusiasm of the people in Suwa area, and it is worthwhile to be passed down to the next generations.
The work closely filmed the ujiko of Suwa and the visitors put their heart into the six-day event of ”Yamadashi” aswell as an exciting moment of Onbashira or honored pillars being dragged down and was easy to follow for theviewers who have not visited and watched the festival.

■About Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition
Japan Cable TV Program Grand Prix Award Competition is the largest competition in the cable television industry
hosted by Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association. The award honors the excellent programs
independently produced by the CATV companies across the country that convey the information on the localcommunity. The competition is held every year to further nurture visual information culture for communitymembers.
The ceremony took place at iTSCOM STUDIO & HALL Futako Tamagawa Rise located in Setagaya, Tokyo on
Thursday, September 14 to announce the winners of the awards. Please see the website of Japan Cable andTelecommunications Association (https://www.catv-jcta.jp/) for further details.
The Company continues to produce the cable television programs rooted in the community and improve thebroadcasting contents. We also promote the popularization of advanced broadcasting services to provide services thatsatisfy our local customers.

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