Dr Rosalind Thomas, eFive's chief executive, agreed last year to alter the cable's path to bring it closer to the island, opening up the prospect of connecting it.
The Sony Pictures-produced show could have followed the path of Cougar Town to cable but there's also new competition for content from sources like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
He went down the tramway, up and over the fallen trolleys in his path, beneath the lines of electric cable that ran through the city and now hung broken and black as jungle creeper.