I read this novel in the 1990s.
It involved a neighborhood, much like a cooperative, whose houses were all interconnected with closed circuit TV or similar. The inhabitants were all given a responsibilty to fill a certain quota of televisable entertainment (with a name that resembled MTV). Real-world MTV was relatively new for the time I read it. The protagonist family were fined?/chastised? for not providing enough quality for the neighbours to watch.