Makko Oko Box Office

Makko Oko Box Office

Type	Public broadcaster
Industry	Broadcasting
Founded	August 2, 1992 (1992-08-02)
Area served	Makko Oko
Services	Television, Online
Owner	Government Of Makko Oko
Website	mkbo.co.mk

Makko Oko Box Office, also known as MKBO, is one of the main premium pay television movie networks in the Empire Of Makko Oko. The Makko Oko Box Office was founded by Erica Knudsen, wife of a signatory to the Republic's Constitution, Julius Knudsen, on August 2nd, 1992, upon the first official establishment of a nationwide cable TV infrastructure. Originally being founded as a private company, the Makko Okoan Government, that being Julius himself, saw the potential future worth of the company and offered his wife to convert it into a government-owned corporation, to which she accepted, as long as she got to keep her place as CEO, which she did, until August 7th, 1998, when she passed away to breast cancer.

The Makko Oko Box Office is the oldest company founded within the nation to still exist today, currently being a public broadcasting company owned by the government.

History

Founding Of The Box Office

Before the inception of the Makko Oko Box Office on August 2nd, 1992, there was a complete lack of movie channels or broadcasts within the nation. This, coupled with the lack of knowledge on international films, led to a gaping hole that needed to be filled. That's where Erica Knudsen comes in. Erica was the wife of President Julius Knudsen, the very first President of the Republic Of Makko Oko, who was also a signatory to the Constitution, was one of those studious people who wanted to know about and watch the international movies.

Erica brought up the idea to her husband, Julius, who thought the idea was great, and was quoted in local news at the time as saying "The idea of the Makko Oko Box Office will be able to plant the seeds in the ground for domestic film production" which at the time of the company's inception, had been little to none, due to the official incorporation of the nation's government only happening 2 years prior, and the main developments of the nation going towards construction companies, TV and internet infrastructure, among other things.

Originally, the Makko Oko Box Office was a news publication, and also a physical office, that would find out and report on international movie releases, review and rate them, and also buy and resell them to local movie theatres. This all changed on November 3rd, 1993, when the Makko Oko Box Office officially completed development of their very first TV channel, simply known as "The Box Office", and started airing that same day at 4:00 PM, with the first ever program broadcast on the channel being a Makko Oko Box Office exclusive TV program named "The Movie Review" which was a cable TV version of the original newspaper format of international movie reviews. The rights to broadcast international movies was quickly obtained after the beginning of the network, with the first program being "The Chaos Of The Ferwerter Civil War", a documentary on the civil war that happened in the Controlist Ferwerter Union.

Bringing In The Government

By April 19th, 1995, the domestic movie industry had grown 1000% overall, and for every 15 movies released within the nation, 1 would be a hit. Additionally, "The Box Office" TV channel had grown in subscribers ever since its introduction in 1993, within 2 years attaining 29,000 subscribers. For a long time, "The Box Office" had been essentially a free-to-air channel, with nobody having to pay for its services, that is, until June 2nd, 1996, when the Makko Oko Box Office had faced the threat of a class action internationally by major movie producers and governments, with many also threatening to cut the international movie supply off for the company, unless changes are made and royalties are established. At the time, royalties had not existed for TV networks, as they were still a slightly new concept, along with the concept of movie channels.

Within days, CEO and Founder Erica Knudsen had reestablished "The Box Office" TV channel as a premium TV channel, no longer free-to-air, that would cost $17 SLO's a month in order to continue using the service, with royalties being established on a per-viewer basis of $0.50/viewer. In the long run, this appeared profitable, and it made the threats of lawsuits disappear, and "The Box Office" continued to live on.

July 11th, 1996 would be when the Makko Oko Box Office would be changed forever. The Makko Okoan Government, mainly the Department Of Labor and President Julius Knudsen, had noticed the low amount of employees, coupled with the high profit margins and huge subscriber base, which at the time, was one of the biggest cable networks in the nation, and had wanted in on the gains. Julius Knudsen had spoken to his wife Erica about potentially making it a government-owned corporation instead of a publicly-owned one that Erica had originally founded it as, and Erica was open to the idea, seeing as Julius was the current President, but she had a stipulation of continuing to be the CEO, with which Julius graciously accepted. The transition to a government-owned corporation happened soon afterwards from July 12th to July 14th 1996. The reason for this conversion remains to be seen, but some do suspect that Julius wanted to alleviate some of the burden that Erica had from running the company, with also being able to give it tax breaks due to being a government corporation.

Death Of Erica Knudsen

With the Makko Oko Box Office now under government operation and control, and with Erica still at the helm being the CEO, she had been rather more relaxed than when the Makko Oko Box Office was a public company, however, she still showed signs of stress. At some points during her tenure under the government's control, she would take weeks off at a time, and nobody, not even Julius, her husband, seemed to know why, with Julius going as far as to answer to a potential controversy and rumor of her having an affair, saying "I trust and believe in my wife to not be unfaithful to the point of marriage. I would go as far as to say I trust them like I trust in democracy, which is always tested, yet never fails. She's going through some issues right now, but she will work them out in due time."

This all made much more sense when on February 5th, 1998, Erica publicly announced that she had stage 3 breast cancer, and with the ever-more-developing healthcare infrastructure, she had to go internationally to get treatment, which would be quite costly. After the announcement, people started becoming outraged due to the thought that she would use public taxpayer funds to pay for the treatment, due to their marriage with the President at the time, which Julius strongly pushed back on. Nobody truly knows if she ever got treatment, or how she paid for it, but on August 7th, 1998, mere days after the 6 year anniversary of the Makko Oko Box Office's inception, she passed away to breast cancer at her home at the capital building, seemingly in her sleep according to autopsy reports.

After her death, President Julius Knudsen, now a widowed husband, officially announced that the Makko Oko Box Office would be headed up by him himself, to continue his wife's dream and business. Many saw this as a conflict of interest and as a plague upon civil service duties, but they were mostly ignored by Julius. Julius continue to ran the Makko Oko Box Office until the Civil Transition War, when he was kidnapped and assassinated by the Makko Oko Anti-Poverty Forces as a failed bargaining chip.

Services

Television

The Makko Oko Box Office provides multiple channels in both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD), to TV providers within the nation. The channels offered depend on the specific provider and the agreements made with the Makko Oko Box Office, but most of the time, all of the channels are provided. Due to them being premium channels, most of the time you have to buy them separate from your TV package, but in the most expensive TV packages, they tend to come included.

Channel	Description and programming
MKBO	The flagship channel; MKBO airs first-run and blockbuster feature films, original series and made-for-cable movies, sports-focused magazine and documentary series, comedy and occasional concert specials, and documentaries. The channel also airs weekly premieres of recent theatrical or new MKBO original movies, marketed as the "MKBO Movie Premiere", on most Saturday nights (usually at 8:00 PM).
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