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The sentence is taken from a manga in which the character kills people at a TV
station in order to threaten the world :

> おはよう世界の諸君...これからほんのわずかな時間だけ...
>
> Hello (ladies and gentlemen of the) world... for only a very short time...
>
> テレビにおジャマさせてもらう事にした。
>
> ???

The first thing I'm not sure about is if テレビに is the agent of もらう and
something like お前たちを is implicit: **I received the favor from the television
to let me disturb you**.

The second is the combination of させてもらう and 事にする which to my understanding
means "decide to" : is it a way of being ironic? like **I decided the TV would
kindly let me (kill them and) disturb you guys.**

Thanks for your help.
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grammar meaning
Meaning of させてもらう + 事にする in this sentence
> 「これからほんのわずかな時間だけ... テレビにおジャマさせてもらう事にした。」

The agent of もらう is the speaker, not television. The speaker is the one who
wants to be the receiver of a favor. (In this case, he wants to make himself
be the receiver of a favor by force.)

There is no 「お[前]{まえ}たちを」 implied anywhere in this sentence. Is that used in
another place in the same context? The thing is this person's speech style is
actually fairly polite, so a derogatory word like 「お前たち」 would not fit in. I
wonder if it is possible that your knowledge of the story is making you see
things that are not in the actual text.

「～～させてもらう」 means "to take the liberty of doing ~~". It is not that the speaker
was asked to make an appearance on TV, is it?

> "I have decided to take the liberty of interrupting you all on TV for a few
> seconds."
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