King of Hollywood

“In fact, the programme is not too problematic if it is to continue, although much more resources, such as more local base stations, more funding, etc. are needed to expand to radio stations. Father and Uncle Anderson, as well as many others, would be happy to help, and there was a successful precedent such as the news group's F-TV station," Claude explained immediately, "but the problem was that the package had several issues that could not be ignored, too long cycles, too much investment and high risk. When we talked about the news group, you should know that Murdoch is no better now. ”

“Yes, Charlie gave me their files and I let her sort it out.” Adrian nodded.

“While we have the advantage, there is no guarantee that this will not happen to news groups, and we will certainly not hold out longer than they do once they really face this dilemma.” Claude drinks coffee and says, "I'm sure there won't be any problems with your viewership, which you've proved, but some things can't be solved by viewership alone, Ed, and you always have talent when you run out, right? ”

He waited quietly for a moment after he had finished, waiting for Adrian to digest these things before opening his mouth: “I was aware of this a few months ago, but there was no good solution, but I knew that neither you nor I would give up and retreat, which was a goal we had set for a long time and were working towards. I finally consulted my father, and he asked me, obviously, what was the problem with expanding cable to radio? That's right, think about it. If we can acquire it successfully, there will be a qualitative boost in influence and voice, so long as you can get ABC out of a loss situation, their TV network, plus some of the CNN and TBS stuff in our hands, we'll have the power to do this whole thing with CBS."

“Nice speech,” Adrian said of Xing clapping, looking at Claude with a smile, "I'm not mistaken, I should have told you this before... made a mistake? ”

Claude grew out of breath, and the expression on his face didn't change much: "Yes, I made a mistake, and I saw how the television media worked, but who didn't? And it's better to make mistakes now than later, isn't it? ”

“That's true, but I always remember when you said to me that we had few advantages.” Adrian looked at his best friend and looked down a little bit and a little annoyed, "Young, lack of grades, etc. ”

“I won't forget what I said, but these can be solved now.” Claudetten laughed. "Did you read the most recent report? So you should know the Millionaire rating, right? ”

Adriatic settling frowned on máo, although he used less jing power in television than in movies, but it was also clear that if the most popular television entertainment show of September was to be chosen, "Millionaire" would not have been broadcast three weeks ago.

Enough stunt - the ultimate winner gets 10,000 prizes; a compact atmosphere - the participants must break through by answering a wide variety of simple to difficult questions, as well as reducing the difficulty by a number of means such as asking for help from an audience on site; and pro-people measures - just sign up to participate. These have given Millionaire a huge welcome, with an 8.6 rating in the first week of broadcasting, which means that about 18 million people are watching.

This has been a remarkable achievement for cable TV, and while newspapers have criticized the show for being suspected of being popular, it has not been possible to stop looking for advertisers from coming to mén and an increasing user base.

“… two weeks later, the rating rose to 9.2, with an audience of almost 20,000, which may not go on, but it should remain fine until the end of the season.” Adrian remembered carefully and said slowly, and this is the benefit of not forgetting. Speaking of which, he also mentioned "Buffy the Vampire Hunter," which he knew Claude would ask: "Buffy the Vampire Hunter is running simultaneously, up to a maximum of 2.5 so far, in line with previous expectations of over 4 million viewers. ”

“What would the viewership rate be if it were broadcast on a radio station?” Claude asked another question with a smile.

Adrian's eyes squinted slightly, and he guessed somewhat what he meant: “Buffy the Vampire Hunter won't increase too much, after all, the audience is relatively narrow. But Millionaire, conservative estimate at least doubled."

“This is one of our chips," Claude hands-on, "put two years ago, and we really didn't get it, but now, unlike now, ABC executives definitely understand what such a show means to them. With you, I can totally tell them that there are a lot of shows like this and TV shows we have, and they're definitely going to think about it. ”

That's true, Millionaire, Old Friends, and Buffy the Vampire Hunter -- although only 4 million people watched it, it's still quite YOU puzzling for ABC, which hasn't played any good TV shows in a long time -- these are in front of them, not to mention they still have CNN, and ABC wouldn't know, ideally, what it means to combine them.

“That's why you waited two months to tell me, isn't it?” Adrian moaned with his chin.

“Yes, I would like to confirm the ratings for Millionaire and Buffy the Vampire Hunter. Claudetten said," I would have liked to have thought about the NT side, but now would be the best time to do it, and the viewership of Millionaire and Buffy the Vampire Hunter is convincing enough. ”

“And if the tnt side continues to succeed in the negotiations, we can further increase persuasion, right?” Adrian, with such a problem, has to admit that Claude is doing a really good job.

With regard to TNT's transformation in the direction of HBO, because it had cost HBO money, Adrian had advised Bosworth to prepare the TV show for them three weeks before the Millionaire aired, the Yu Wang Metropolis, which had put HBO on a step in the '90s.

TV drama competition in the United States is fierce. It is almost all Jing works that can be filmed in seasons 6 and 7. Especially into the 21st century, the pace of life will be even more intense after further acceleration. Fortunately, "Old Friends" was filmed in the early 1990s. Otherwise, it is really hard to say whether such a scenario comedy can be filmed in the 10th season.

The production of Yuwangdu is easy and easy to say because the jing mystery of the film lies in fashion and the chaos between NVs, such as bright and beautiful clothing that attracts attention, or openly discussing the size, abilities, etc. of men on TV. Simply put, this is a TV show that promotes nv totalitarianism, and is also aimed at a wide audience of nvxings and men who are curious about nvxing psychology.

Adrian contacted Candace early? Bushnell, Yu Wang Metropolitan has not yet assembled in a book at this time, all in her columns. With the promise of publication, the other party sold him the right to adapt and promised to guide the adaptation of the script. As for actors, as long as you know how fashion dresses and how to show these in front of the camera, it doesn't have to be Sarah? Jessica? Parker.

That's why it's so easy to make, and the hard part is that this is the first time TNT has ever made their own TV drama, and while Adrian has arranged some of the help and contacted a number of teams, they're not as experienced as HBO.

Of course, this can also be seen as a test, with Adrian offering all kinds of conveniences and resources to TNT as much as possible, and if it all makes a mess of luàn, then we'll have to turn to working with HBO in the future.

“Yes, ABC will naturally become more motivated when we negotiate and even the restructured TNT will be able to achieve results.” Claude nodded and poured himself another cup of coffee.

“Well, then the second question, the funding question.” Adrian changed his posture.

“We spent only 5.5 billion to acquire TBS because of the right strategy, so if you think about it, there's about a billion dollars left to spend.” Claude answered with a smile.

“It's impossible," Adrian revealed surprised God sè, "don't tell me you didn't spend money buying those newspapers. ”

“Sure, but we're making money at the same time.” Claude shrugged, "Don't forget, we have foreign trading companies in Russia, Clinton administration FU BI is pressing for the yen to continue to appreciate, and this year's Mexican peso crisis...”

“Wait, you mean Mexican pesos?” Adrian's surprise god sè is bigger, “I think we talked about that, and you were against it. ”

“Yes, but what I object to is too much input, and it's okay to go in and get a few pennies as a tourist.” Claude laughed cunningly, "admittedly, Soros was an amazing guy, and in that case he could still direct the operation. ”

“So, what about the '92 pound?” Adrian then asked, his eyes not blinking and looking at him.

“Little by little, less profitable than a peso.” Claude's stall has nothing to hide.

“You bastard...” Adrian laughed, fingering and sighing again.

“Well, even so, it's not enough, and I remember you might have expected to spend nearly $20 billion.” And he said, “Even if we have what we can do now, is it worth billions? ”

“No, but 5 billion is fine.” Claude responded immediately.

“Really?”

“Don't look at yourself, Ed. Remember Carl? Rainer, Vice Chairman of Viacom, who thinks you're worth far more than what you're showing, I think that's Ray Stone's view. Father also said your potential is immeasurable. ”

“Sounds like they're going to take me nong to the National Academy of Sciences to do a biopsy.” Adrian said in earnest, and went on after Claude laughed: “Well, even so, we're still five billion short, and you're going to...”

“We can finance it.” Claude's answer was already ready, but Adrian didn't show the surprise of God sè, which he obviously expected.

“Neither my father nor your Uncle Anderson would be pleased.” Claude said softly.

“Of course, that's sooner or later.” Adrian sighed.

Everyone knows that sharing and win-win is the best way to succeed, and it is with the funds and conveniences of groups or consortia that many people achieve their cause. But from another point of view, why not the opportunity for large consortia of large groups to reach into various industries?

They entered the board silently and watched everything silently. When you can make money, they don't change anything; but when you can't make a profit, they start doing chā things that make your company what it is. If you're dissatisfied with fighting to regain your power, they're welcome to let you go, and the reason Jobs got swept out of mén by Apple is because of his personal arrogance, but that's not without it.

The media, especially television, are very important to a country, otherwise there would be no law in the United States that "non-United States citizens may not acquire American television". Secondly, it has been said before that the American uppermost society is half-hit with Jews, but most of the uppermost society controls traditional paper media, and Jews have a lot of power in emerging media such as film and television - Hollywood has been known as Jewish Hollywood for more than a day or two.

Think of Adrian's uncle and his circle of media as one of the breakthroughs, and if Adrian and Claude do well, it's certain that someone higher up will reach in. Adrian has no objection, it's the rule, it's the irreversible rule, almost every company does so without exception, but he now needs to say one-size-fits-all rights, because only he knows what the future will be, and even sharing it will take at least two years.

The original plan was to involve those funds slowly and to a limited extent through the constant expansion of TBS, through the godfather and uncle, but if you want to acquire ABC now, with a lot of money coming in...

“What are you thinking?” Claude couldn't help but ask when he saw that Adrian hadn't spoken in a while.

“Nothing,” Adrian shook his fist, "you said," these are ideal situations, don't forget, we have to face Disney's competition, they've been negotiating for some time, you should know what Aesner is, and we took Miramax from them before. ”

“I know you're worried, but I'm not going to tell you this without 50 certainties, Ed,” Claude laughed, "Dinis does have advantages that we don't have, like grandeur, like rich resources, like long experience; but our strengths, we have success stories, they don't, do they? ”

“What if it fails?” Adrian asked, his eyebrows slightly raised.

“So let's move on to the previous plan, which may be a little longer at best, and the news group took 10 years, and we won't be able to take that long.” Claude shrugged, then looked at Adrian and laughed: “I know what you're worried about, Ed, don't forget where the money came from. ”

“Yes, I know,” Adrian didn't deny, “but it wasn't just my godfather and my uncle, was it? ”

“Better than letting someone who doesn't know anything about it in here?” Claude made a gesture, "adding that the takeover negotiations will take a long time, and the financing can be talked about slowly, perhaps with time the amount of funding needed may be reduced, knowing that Yahoo's hits have already exceeded 10,000. ”

Adrian picked some unexpected eyebrows, and he didn't expect Claude to be following Yahoo's development. He e-mailed it back in February. Jerry? Jan and David? Ferro, Yahoo was on the Internet two months earlier, and because of him, they were called Yahoo. This is also very rapid, and with Adrian prompting via e-mail from time to time, Yahoo's click-through rate reached what it should have been at the end of the year a few months later.

According to reliable sources, the two people who founded the website have begun to be ambitious in their preparations to form the company, and Adrian is therefore ready to do so. As a Stanford alumni, it is easy to invest. If nothing goes wrong, Yahoo will be ready to go on the market at the end of the year, and there will be more room for AC media to rotate around.

But Adrian was able to make that judgment because he could see the future of Yahoo, and Claude was totally on his own, and he brought it up before he even thought about it, and it was quite sè.

Adrian knocks his fingers back and forth on the desk. Want to buy abc? Of course, not only will his company get a qualitative boost, but the time spent in the TV media is much shorter, just... well, there's nothing perfect about the world, and the key is whether ABC is worth gambling with.

Basically, the 50 odds are already worth the bet, and... if we drag it to the end of next year, Cisco and Microsoft will give him more room for manoeuvre, and Uncle Leggett manages his fund well. Coupled with the relationship between the godfather and uncle and Claude's ability to raise 5 billion won't cut the threshold, don't worry too much about the control of the company, let alone the agreement - in fact, profitability, so long as you keep profitable, even if you have only a few percent of the shares in your hand, you can keep control of the company.

Then Adrian closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and looks seriously at Claude: "Well, take off abc.