Going Into the World!
8 volumes
After the awards ceremony, the after-party was hosted by Grayden Carter, editor of Vanity Fair at Sunset Tower. "Vanity Fair" is a magazine that deals with pop, culture, fashion or other implicit issues. When I saw that the editor held such an important party, I was surprised to see the celebrity industry secretly through the mediation of a famous magazine.
There were a lot of stars who came to this party, as well as celebrities who wanted to see them. Some uninvited stars complained, which meant that hosting this party meant something like an academy awards ceremony.
Vanity Fair's parent company specializes in a magazine called Condenast, where it publishes dozens of offline magazines. Among them is a fashion magazine called Vogue, published in 23 countries.
As we unravel these things together, we can see why the editor of a magazine has such power. "That fucking magazine? 'It turns out that he is in charge of one axis of the entertainment industry.
This magazine, Conde Nast, has also published more than 20 magazines, which have influenced the low profile of the entertainment community through various content.
As I was thinking about taking over the entertainment industry's surface as well as the bottom, I also thought that there were too many places to touch music, movies, fashion, TV, sports, etc., so I was too greedy.
However, Murdock's news corporations, Time Warners and GE have more than 50 subsidiaries, regardless of their subsidiaries. Moreover, all three companies have many companies that produce content. In my case, it's Warner Music, Wall Street Journal, Polygram, Street Soft.
As it turns out, there is no cable TV or regular channel for everyone else, so you need to get distracted.
I'm still thinking about it, but Director Crimson knocks and comes in. I'm here to make an intermediate report on the acquisition of the Dodgers Club you mentioned last time. Fox has also had a few contacts with him to negotiate pricing and terms and to complete a basic investigation in cooperation with the intelligence team.
"Sir, I've contacted Fox and asked for a slightly higher price. He's asked for 600 million dollars."
"600 million dollars? If you're interested in me, you're being coercive. Is it Murdock pulling the strings, or is it his son?"
"Rupert Murdock initially ran the club, but he's got a lot of sons these days. I think his son, James, is leading the charge."
"I thought you were supposed to buy it for 300 million dollars. It's been less than five years, and you're trying to sell me twice as much. every year when you see a huge deficit."
"I think so, too. Even if you've invested so far, it's not much. Shall we negotiate more?"
Mr. Crimson says it's a bit of a shame to give up on his baseball passion, but I really want to buy the Dodgers.
Dodgers isn't just a baseball team. Murdock is a business, no more than a dodger, but I have a desire to show the people of LA who's really good at running this city. I think it would be fun to see fans in my troupe of players in a huge stadium that can hold 56,000 people. Just perfect for foaming.
According to Turner, who has run Atlanta Braves for more than 20 years, it is exciting to say a word to athletes in the crowd.
The merger and acquisition with Times Warner gave me control of the baseball team, but it's a good experience to rethink. It even gave me a special lecture on 'how to enjoy playing table tennis’.
"How much do we think is the right price? '
"It's not easy to determine the price. Originally, the sports club was at the heart of the relay, and it was very hard to say what they were saying because it varied by tens of millions of dollars, depending on the time or condition. But there are many opinions that 500 million dollars is just right."
The more I heard the story, the more I felt the need for a boring negotiation. I understand why I've been talking a lot since last year, but I haven't made any progress. The Sports Club is not as expensive as the goods, so it is difficult to set prices, and it can sometimes drag time out for years.
"I hate to stretch..."
I didn't like this negotiation because I was young. I want to finish one thing and do the next, but if it grows longer, I have to go to the bathroom and have no toilet paper, so I just came out. Steamed.
After a moment of thought, I resolved to abandon my decision to the monsters and the plot. In fact, I didn't think I would negotiate well at the news corporation from the beginning, so I have a separate emergency plan.
"Put Mr. Murdock on the phone."
I asked for a call from the secretary's office, but I wonder where Grandpa Murdock went. It's been a while since I heard any confusing voices.
"What are you doing here? I think we're done here."
"Hello, I'm calling to talk business today."
"Khh-hmm. They took my Wall Street Journal. How are you? I'm doing just fine. What's the count this time?"
Murdock talks about how my voice is not welcome, but he is a skilled person, so I don't feel bad about him. It is admirable for an enemy to see how much he controls his emotions for business. Humanity sucks, of course.
"First, I called about the L.A. Dodgers. I heard you have a lot to lose? If you're going to sell, leave it to me. I'm going to calculate the value correctly."
"Haha, did you call me with that? That doesn't sound like you."
Murdock says it's a little funny. It is not wrong to say that it is not a practice for presidents to take over an acquisition that neither they nor their close friends have negotiated properly under water.
"Oh, that's not all, of course. But I'm just saying that because it involves the L.A. Dodgers, I want to hear the answer before I get to the point. I hate lengthening. Even if you're impatient to be young, you're not wrong. If you're right, can you just hand it over to me?"
"Hmm. Isn't that obvious? So, what's going on?"
When I heard that, I thought it was funny. Mr. Murdock is a man of few conditions, and I've wasted my time with nonsense. Mr. Murdock is now interested in what I feel when I talk to him.
"Are you preparing to acquire your Direct TV?"
"What? No, why would you associate that with the Dodgers?"
"I've been dragging you around for almost three years now, and you really have to take over this time, right? You know, if you're bluffing again,"
"You, what do you mean? Are you saying you know something?"
I feel an uneasy energy in my tone of voice, and the calm voice suddenly changes and the end of my speech rises.
"We are developing a program for 'Ecosta'. What exactly is a program for satellite TV?"
"What?! What are you doing with Ecosta?!"
"Whoa, uh. Calm down. We're still working on it. But of course, we can launch it as soon as we want."
"You, stop messing around and talk fast."
Ecosta is a company that operates a satellite TV called Dish Network, which ranks second after Murdock's Direct TV plan to acquire.
I am sensitive to my words as I am currently competing intensely to acquire Direct TV in a news corporation with Ecosta. Mr. Murdock's acquisition is now almost effective.
Murdock has been negotiating with GM, the majority shareholder, to acquire Direct TV for the past few years, but there is still a considerable margin for his acquisition. Funnily enough, GM operated America's largest satellite television company, which acquired an air defence company in the '80s, explains its subsidiary now called Direct TV.
When this turned into a good business in the late '90s, the GM tried to sell it and touch big money, but it's been cutting back on two or three companies for years at five billion to seven billion dollars. Mr. Murdock is stuck in the middle of it.
"Honestly, we don't talk about this unless it's an LA Dodgers acquisition, but we plan to supply software to the Dish Network. Maybe if we just gave this program to the Dish Network, Mr. Murdock wouldn't be able to afford direct TV. Have you ever heard of the musical shield?"
"You're supplying 'Music Shield' to the Dish Network? What does that even mean? As far as I'm concerned, it's from Warner Music. “
Mr. Murdock doesn't seem to understand, but this needs a supporting explanation.
"It's not the music shield that you want to supply to the dish network, it's the satellite shield. You know, there's a lot of people stealing channels from satellite antennas these days, right? The Camel Group estimates that there are two million in the United States alone, plus Canada and Mexico, which is more than three to four million. The satellite shield completely shuts it down. You know Murdock, but you do know that the Musical Shield is already working, right?"
Yes, the weapon in my spleen was a satellite shield. A skill that strikes millions of illegitimate viewers in a heartbeat. If Music Shield is based on the Internet, then Satellite Shield uses the world's most powerful encryption and hacking technology that the Internet and Johnstone Group boast at the same time.
It is a method of applying encryption techniques to signals so that signals picked up by illegal antennas become squeaky during playback and noise is added to the image quality, and special smart cards must be inserted into the receiving device.
Of course, there's nothing in the world that can't be hacked. However, Johnstone Group has servers and technologies that can monitor and manage all of the smart cards of 15 million satellite TV receivers in real time, if they choose to. They've already deployed a musical shield that processes dozens of times that information, so they've received reports that satellite shields can be added at a low cost.
"Is that even possible?! “
For a while, Murdock seemed to have taken a bit of a shock and almost spoke out. The words contain more surprises than doubts, but it seems that Warner Music already believed in him because of his revolutionary reputation as the "Music Shield."
Even Murdock understands my meaning as pirated satellite antennas, receivers, and channel theft are being reported in the newspapers.
"Of course you can, it's a Johnstone group. For the record, this technology has only been developed, and it hasn't yet been proposed to the Dish Network. I've been really busy with Jay Tunes lately. But this is a musical shield add-on, so you can do it as soon as you like. If you're going to buy Direct TV soon, you don't need Murdock, do you? We don't get along, I can't believe I'm dodging dishes. Point. Ball. You're not going to class, are you?"
"Shhh, yeah. So what do you want?"
Especially when I empower 'monopoly', Mr. Schmidt sighs.
"What I want is the L.A. Dodgers. And frankly, your son offered me 600 million dollars, which I think is too much, because buying 300 million dollars and making twice as many pop-ups as you don't have, it's a bit much. Why don't you just sell it for 400 million dollars? Honestly, 200 million dollars at our level is no big deal."
I have now, frankly, come to the conclusion that I have taken control of the situation. $1-200 million is not a big deal. I just want to buy it ‘fast’ at the right price.
"Very well. So if I hand over the L.A. Dodgers, you promise not to supply the satellite shields to the Dish Network?" "
"I'm not saying I won't supply it, I'm saying I won't supply it exclusively. Of course, Mr. Murdock will pay the same price. Oh, and I hope you can do it in a month. I hate stalling."
I hung up after a few more minutes with Mr. Murdock. As a rational Mr. Murdock, we talked about the benefits of each other, and we had a relatively easy conversation, but he said he would call me back after thinking about it.
I explained in detail what would happen if I supplied only one satellite shield to Mr. Murdock's choice. The only proven way to survive in pirate markets that are increasingly organized and universalized through the development of the Internet and technology is through satellite shields.
Less than a week later, Murdock was contacted. The proposal to sell L.A. Dodgers for $450 million requires that you state in your document that you will not exclusively supply "satellite shields" to certain companies.
I didn't think I'd accept 400 million dollars from the start, so I agreed to the price. Instead, he asked Fox to actively cooperate to end the Dodgers sale within a month.
< Johnston Group, LA Dodgers Acquisition Confirmed! >
[With Rupert Murdock at the table, the LA Dodgers have been having a hard time welcoming new owners. Dodgers were welcomed by LA's largest corporation, the acquisition of Johnstone Group, which is the focus of the Internet and entertainment business.
It was time to put an end to this controversy that Murdock, who had not even liked baseball and had acquired it only for making money. As an LA-based company, the Johnstone Group said it would grow Dodgers into a sports club that would be enjoyed with local people, not just businesses. He also expressed strong commitment to continuous investment and service for fans, raising fans' expectations.]
After the announcement that I was acquiring the Dodgers, people welcomed me together. There's been a lot of complaints about Murdock online, and there's been a lot of talk about him saying, "Someone better than Murdock."
The happiest thing is that I have a lot of money and I'm based in LA. If a table tennis player is cut off and sees a baseball team for business purposes only, the damage will come back to the fans. It seeks cost savings, such as raising entry fees and reducing on-site service. Of course, that includes the release of expensive players and the recruitment of players.
Fans and local citizens seem to expect me to stop being the richest man in the world, the Dodger. Moreover, he was originally from his region, which seemed to be more favorable as the Johnstone group based here acquired Dodgers.
Turner was very fond of it, but in '98 Murdock stood in the way of acquiring the Dodgers, and when I took it back, he laughed loudly and loudly shouted at one of the most important steps of the meeting of major league runners that he was responsible for and would allow him to pass at hyperspeed.
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LA Dodgers have been talking about the sale since 2001, and it wasn't until October 2003 that they sold it to Mr. McCott, Boston's real estate operator.
This does not include brochures. It turns out that another vendor has offered 650 million dollars to the relay.
As I said the other day, Murdock had been eyeballing Direct TV for years, and in 2003, he was finally able to buy for 66 billion dollars, which is when the article said he needed cash to finish the sale of the desperate Dodgers quickly.