Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index WOWOW was the first private satellite broadcasting and pay TV station in Japan. It began analog broadcasting on April 1, 1991. Digital broadcasting began on December 1, 2000. The network began with 207,753 subscribers (31.5 billion yen in sales), growing to 2,667,414 two years later (64.5 billion yen in sales). WOWOW mostly rebroadcasts movies, but is also well known for showing original anime series such as Crest of the Stars and Anime Complex. The channel's name is a double "Wow," and the three W's also stand for "World-Wide-Watching." WOWOW is the station in Japan that carries The Simpsons. External link WOWOW website (Japanese) -- requires Macromedia Flash plugin. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.