King of Hollywood

"In fact, if we want to continue, there is no big problem with this plan, although expanding into a wireless TV station still needs a lot of resources, such as more local base stations, more funds, etc. Father and Anderson Uncle and many people will be happy to help, and there is such a successful precedent as the X TV station under the News Corporation," Crowder immediately explained, "but the problem is that this plan has several problems that cannot be ignored. The investment is too large and the risk is relatively high. Just now we talked about News Corporation, and you should know that Murdoch is not having a good time now."

"Yes, after Charlie gave me their information, I asked her to sort it out." Adrian nodded.

"Although we have an advantage, there is no guarantee that the situation of News Corporation will not happen, and once we really face their predicament, we will certainly not last longer than them." Claude said while drinking coffee, " I'm sure TV ratings won't be a problem with you around, you've proven it, but some things aren't just about ratings, Ed, and you're always going to run out of ideas, right? "

After he finished speaking, he waited quietly for a while, and after Adrian digested these things, he spoke again: "I realized this a few months ago, but there was no good solution. But I know that neither you nor I will give up and shrink back. This is the goal we have set long ago and are working hard for. I finally consulted my father, and then my father asked me, why should I have something ready in front of me? Are you obsessed with expanding the cable TV station into a wireless TV station? Yes, think about it, if we can successfully acquire it, both the influence and the right to speak will be qualitatively improved. As long as you can get rid of the loss-making situation, Their TV network plus our net and some things from TBs, we will have the same strength as cBs in the TV network.”

"A very pleasant speech," Adrian clapped his hands symbolically, and looked at Claude with a half-smile, "If I remember correctly, I should have told you this before... Made a mistake? "

Claude let out a long breath, and the expression on his face didn't change much: "Yes, I made a mistake. I looked down on the operation of the TV media, but who didn't make a mistake? And it's better to make a mistake now than It’s better to make mistakes in the future, isn’t it?”

"That's true, but I still remember that you told me back then that we didn't have much advantage." Adrian looked at his best friend with a little teasing and annoyed eyes, "Young, lack of grades, etc. Wait."

"I won't forget what I said, but these can be resolved now." Claude laughed suddenly, "Have you read the latest report? Then you should know the ratings of "Millionaire", right? "

Adrian raised his eyebrows immediately. Although he spent less energy on TV than movies, he also knew that if he wanted to choose the TV entertainment program that received the most attention in September, it would not be "Millionaire", which was broadcast three weeks ago none other than.

Enough gimmicks - the final winner can get a bonus of 10,000 yuan; compact atmosphere - participants must answer a variety of questions from simple to difficult to break through, and can also use many methods such as asking the audience for help methods to reduce difficulty; people-friendly measures - as long as you sign up, you can participate. All of these have made "Millionaire" very popular, and it got an audience rating of 8.6 in the first week of its broadcast, which means that about 10,000 people are watching it.

For a cable TV station, this is a remarkable achievement. Although some newspapers criticized the show as grandstanding, it couldn't stop the advertisers who came to the door and the increased user base.

"...Two weeks later, the ratings rose to 9.2, with almost ten thousand viewers. It may not continue to rise, but it should not be a problem to keep it until the end of the season." Adrian said slowly after recalling carefully, this is The benefits of a photographic memory. Speaking of this, he casually brought up "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and he knew that Claude would definitely ask: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer will be broadcast at the same time, so far the highest is 2.5, which is in line with the previous estimate. Thousands of viewers."

"If it were broadcast on TVB instead, how many ratings would it have?" Claude asked another question with a smile.

Adrian narrowed his eyes slightly, and he somewhat guessed what the other party meant: ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer" won't increase too much, after all, the audience is relatively narrow. But "Millionaire" is conservatively estimated to be at least doubled"

"This is one of our bargaining chips," Claude spread his hands, "Two years ago we really didn't have any good results, but it's different now, the senior management must understand what such a show means to them. With you here, I can tell them that we still have many such programs and TV series, and they will definitely consider it seriously."

This is true, the ratings of "Millionaire", "Friends", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"-although only tens of thousands of people watch it, but for a TV series that hasn't been broadcast for a long time In other words, it is still quite tempting-these are all in front of them, not to mention that they still have the net now, so they don't know what the combination of these means in an ideal state.

"That's why you waited two months to tell me, didn't you?" Adrian asked, rubbing his chin.

"Yes, I want to confirm the ratings of "Millionaire" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Claude said frankly, "I originally wanted to see the situation on TnT, but if I want to start, it is now The best time, and the ratings of "Millionaire" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" are enough to convince."

"And if TnT continues to succeed in the negotiations, it can further increase persuasion, right?" Adrian asked such a question, so he had to admit that Crowder was really impeccable in his work.

Regarding the transformation of TnT in the direction, it has been preliminarily completed because it is willing to spend money. Before "Millionaire" started broadcasting three weeks ago, Adrian had already told Bosworth to prepare the TV series for them, that is The "Wish and the City" that brought Zai to a new level.

Competition in American TV dramas is very fierce, and those that can be filmed for 6 or 7 seasons are almost all masterpieces, especially in the 21st century, when the pace of life is further accelerated, it will become more intense. Fortunately, "Friends" was released in the early 1990s. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether such a sitcom can be filmed for ten seasons.

The production of "Want and the City" is easy to say, but it is easy to say because the essence of this movie lies in fashion and unscrupulous topics among women, such as all kinds of bright and beautiful clothes that attract people's attention, or publicity. The TV discusses men's sizes, abilities, and more. To put it simply, this is a TV series that promotes feminism, and the audience is also a large number of women and men who are curious about women's psychology.

Adrian had someone contact Candice Bushnell early on. At this time, "Wish and the City" had not yet been compiled into a book, and they were all distributed among her columns. With the promise of publishing, the other party readily sold him the adaptation rights and agreed to act as the director of the adaptation of the script. As for actors, anyway, as long as they understand fashion and dress up and know how to express these in front of the camera, it doesn't have to be Sarah Jessica Parker.

That's why it's easy to make, but the hard part is that this is TnT's first time to produce a TV series by itself. Although Adrian arranged some people to help and contacted many teams, after all, they are not as experienced as that.

Of course, this can also be seen as a test. Adrian provides TnT with all kinds of convenience and resources as much as possible. If the production of Luan is still messy, then he has no choice but to turn and cooperate in the future.

"Yes, when we are negotiating, even the reorganized TnT can achieve results, so we will naturally be more tempted." Claude nodded, seeing that the coffee was gone, and then poured himself another cup .

"Okay, then the second question, the funding issue." Adrian changed his sitting position.

"We only spent 5.5 billion on the acquisition of TBs because of the right strategy, so after careful calculation, there are still about 100 million or so funds that can be used." Crowder replied with a smile.

"It's impossible," Adrian showed a look of surprise, "Don't tell you that you didn't spend any money to buy those newspapers."

"Of course it's spent, but we're also making money at the same time." Claude shrugged, "Don't forget, we also have a foreign trade company in Russia, the Clinton administration is also forcing the yen to continue to appreciate, and this year's The Mexican peso crisis . . . "

"Wait, you mean Mexican pesos?" Adrian's surprised expression was even bigger, "I remember we talked about this at the beginning, and you were against it at that time."

"That's right, but what I'm opposed to is too much investment. It's okay to go in as idle money and make a few sums before leaving." Claude smiled cunningly, "I have to admit that Soros is a powerful guy. In that case it is still possible to command netbsp; "So what about sterling in '92? "Adrian asked immediately, looking at him without blinking.

"A little bit, the profit is less than pesos." Claude spread his hands, without any concealment.

"You guy..." Adrian couldn't help laughing, pointed at him and then sighed.

"Well, even so, it's still not enough. I remember that you estimated that it might cost nearly 100 million dollars." He then said leisurely, "Even if we have achieved results that can be achieved now, can it be worth 100 million dollars?"

"No, but 100 million is still no problem." Claude immediately gave the answer.

"real?"

"Don't look at yourself, Ed, remember Carl Reiner, Viacom's vice chairman, he thinks you are worth more than what you show, and I think that's Redstone's view. Father also said , your potential is immeasurable."

"It sounds like they plan to send me to the National Academy of Sciences for slice research." Adrian said solemnly, and continued after Claude laughed: "Well, even so, we are still short of 100 million. Are you going to..."

"We can raise money." Claude's answer had been prepared long ago, but Adrian didn't show any surprise. He obviously expected to be right.

"Whether it's my father or your Uncle Anderson, they will be very happy." Claude said softly.

"Of course, it will be a matter of time." Adrian sighed.

Everyone knows that sharing and win-win is the best way to succeed. Many people have achieved their careers with the funds and various conveniences provided by various groups or consortia. But from another perspective, isn't this an opportunity for those big conglomerates to extend their tentacles into various industries?

They entered the board of directors quietly and observed everything silently. When you can make money, they won't make any changes; but when you can't bring in profits, they will start to intervene in various affairs and make your company theirs. If you are dissatisfied and want to fight and regain your power, they will let you go out without any politeness. The reason why Jobs was kicked out of Apple is certainly related to his personal arrogance, but this factor is not without it.

The media, especially television stations, are very important to a country, otherwise the United States would not have such a law that "non-US citizens are not allowed to acquire American television stations". Secondly, I said before that the upper class in the United States has half wooed and half attacked the Jews, but the upper class controls mostly traditional paper media, and the Jews have great influence in emerging media such as film and television—Hollywood has been there for more than a day Two days have been called Jewish Hollywood.

Thinking about Adrian's uncle and his circle, the media may become one of the breakthroughs. If Adrian and Claude do a good job, it is certain that higher-level people will reach out. Adrian has no objection, this is a rule, an irreversible rule, almost every company is like this without exception, but he needs the right to be unambiguous now, because only he knows what the future will be like, even if he wants to share it at least Have to wait until after the year.

The original plan was to continuously expand TBs, and let those funds slowly participate in a limited amount through the godfather and uncle, but if you want to acquire now, with the entry of large funds...

"What are you thinking?" Seeing that Adrian hadn't spoken for a long time, Claude couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing." Adrian clenched his fists. "What you said is an ideal situation. Don't forget, we still have to face the competition from Disney. They have been negotiating for a while. What is Eisner?" You should also understand the character, and we also took Miramax from them before."

"I know your worries, but I'm not sure, I won't tell you this, Ed," Claude smiled, "Dinis does have advantages that we don't have, such as rich and powerful, such as rich resources , such as a long history; but our advantage, we have a successful experience, but they don't, don't they?"

"What if it fails?" Adrian asked, frowning slightly.

"Then let's continue with the previous plan. At most, the time may be longer. News Corp. took ten years, and we won't take that long." Claude shrugged, then looked at Adrian and laughed: "I know What are you worrying about, Ed, don't forget where the money is coming from."

"Yes, I know," Adrian didn't deny, "but it's not just the godfather and my uncle, is it?"

"It's better than letting in people who don't understand at all?" Claude made a gesture, "Besides, this acquisition negotiation will take a long time, and the financing can also be discussed slowly, maybe over time With the passage of time, the amount of financing that needs to be raised may be reduced, as Yahoo’s hit rate has exceeded 10,000.”

Adrian raised his eyebrows in surprise, he didn't expect that Claude had been paying attention to Yahoo's development. Back in February, he e-mailed Jerry Young and David Filo, Yahoo appeared on the Internet two months earlier, and because of him, their site was originally called yahoo. In this way, the development of the website is also very fast, and Adrian reminds through emails from time to time. After a few months, Yahoo's click-through rate has reached the height that should have been achieved at the end of the year.

According to reliable sources, the two people who founded the website have already begun ambitious preparations to form a company, and Adrian is also ready to start. With his status as a Stanford alumnus, it is a breeze to inject capital into it. If there are no problems in the middle, Yahoo will prepare to go public at the end of the year, and the media will have more room for maneuver at that time.

However, Adrian can make this judgment because he can see the future of Yahoo, while Claude is completely based on his own vision, and he brought it up before he thought of it, which is really brilliant

Adrian tapped his fingers back and forth on the desk, do you want to buy it? Of course, not only will my company improve in quality, but the time spent on TV media will be greatly shortened, but... well, there is no perfect thing in the world, the key lies in bsp; basically, what can be The probability is already worth the gamble, and... if it can be delayed until the end of next year, Cisco and Microsoft will give him more room for maneuver, and Uncle Reggett has managed his fund well . Coupled with the relationship between godfather and uncle and Claude's ability, and even if the financing is less than the critical value, there is no need to worry too much about the control of the company, let alone signing an agreement-in fact, to put it bluntly, it is still profitable As long as it can continue to make profits, even if it only has a few percent of the shares in hand, it can still maintain control of the company.

Then it's settled. Adrian closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then looked at Claude seriously: "Then, let's take it down."