Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In fact, Jed did not expect that his own company would go public one day. The listing of Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company was more forced by the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States.Since Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Corporation aspires to be a TV network that provides open and impartial information services to audiences across the United States, their finances must also be supervised to avoid being controlled by certain financial groups.Therefore, it is naturally the best way to list webc (Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company), because then their finances will be clearly displayed in front of investors across the United States.

Jed could only sneer at the FCC's rhetoric. How could the media be "fair"?The media without a stand cannot escape the end of shutting down in the end.Conservatives in the United States have the stage of FoxNews, and liberals naturally have the support of CNN and MSNBC.However, Warner was obviously unwilling to give webc such a bad reputation, so it still persuaded Jed to agree to spin off webc and go public.According to Warner's compromise proposal, Warner will give up 15% of the shares, and Dongfeng will give up 9% of the shares. 19% of these shares will continue to circulate in the market, and the remaining 6% of the shares will be used. Incentives for internal staff.This basically guarantees Dongfeng Broadcasting Company's 5% controlling stake in Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company. At the same time, related subsidiary companies have also begun to be formed.

Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company is just a large company responsible for the coordinated broadcasting of programs within the network, while Warner Dongfeng Television Co., Ltd. controls the television entities of the network.At the same time, Warner Entertainment established two production companies, Warner Dongfeng News Center and Warner Studios in New York, responsible for the production of news programs, commentary programs, sports programs and special programs for the new TV network; while Dongfeng Broadcasting Company established in Los Angeles Warner Dongfeng TV City, Dongfeng Production Company and Dongfeng Entertainment Company are responsible for the production of TV dramas, TV movies, music programs, variety shows, talk shows and shopping shows on the new TV network.

Like most of the TV networks, the we TV network also retained the two headquarters in New York and Los Angeles, and the original two TV stations of Dongfeng Broadcasting Company in Los Angeles were reorganized into we 11 and 14, while San Francisco was reorganized into we three.At the same time, four stations in New York, five stations in Chicago, six stations in Philadelphia, seven stations in Houston, eight stations in Miami, nine stations in Detroit and ten stations in Hawaii were also reorganized together. Television networks can already cover most of the US viewing market through over-the-air television networks alone.According to the plan submitted by Mark Pedewitz, we TV Network will also launch No.[-] to No.[-] stations in Puerto Rico, Guam, Alaska and American Samoa in the next three years.

Interesting to say, Pedewitz was supposed to be the president of CW Television Network, but after Jed cut upn halfway and turned CW into We, Pedewitz still successfully applied for the position of president of Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company.It has to be said that Pedwitz is indeed a talent. After three months of reorganization, the we TV network he just started has vaguely looked like the fifth largest TV network in the United States.After thinking about it, in order to circumvent the FCC's simulcast restrictions on the network, the real simulcast programs of the we network are only three hours of prime time at night and another two hours of news programs on weekends.The rest of the programs are mainly purchased by the franchised TV stations from the news center or TV city, which not only ensures the unified style of the franchised TV stations and the main station, but also ensures that the advertisements of the advertisers are fully broadcast.

However, after Jed owned the We TV network, the relationship with NBC and ABC quickly cooled down. There has been no good relationship with NBC for a long time. The gradual decline in the ratings of the two ace comedies of "Friends" and "Will & Grace" has made it rumored that NBC plans not to renew the contract, so Jed estimates at most In another two years, all relations between myself and nbc will be severed.As for abc, Disney found that Jed not only dismantled himself on movies, but also on TV.When Disney followed Jade's suggestion and transformed abc into "ladytv" and achieved great success, we TV network also called out the slogan "youngpower". It's intentional to snatch your audience.

This made Jed extremely depressed, but Pedwitz still hoped that Jed could come up with excellent TV series to save the prime time of We TV network.But Jed had already handed The West Wing and CSI to CBS.In terms of reality shows, "Big Brother" is naturally embarrassed to get it back from Fox Network, and "Survivor" given to CBS has no way to go back.

"Our idea now is to show a female-themed TV series on Mondays, still comedies on Tuesdays, we can broadcast reality shows on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and on Fridays we hope to have a heavy-weight TV series," Peder said. Weitz looked at Jed almost flatteringly, so that John who was on the side had to cough to remind Pedweitz to restrain himself. "The prime time on Saturday and Sunday is naturally given to sports programs, and the news special programs during the day are not a problem. What we are troublesome now is how to do the prime time from Monday to Friday!" The boss is so blackmailing, who in the TV circle doesn't know that his boss is a ghost?Comedies, crime dramas, and medical dramas have all been produced, and reality shows have sparked national discussions.Now Pedewitz's thinking is that two ideas are enough to get out of his hands.

"It's a good choice to broadcast women's dramas on Mondays. At least we can avoid ABC's "Sex and the City". Their ratings on Thursdays are already staggering!" Jed was also bleeding from the bottom of his heart. He knew that he had a TV station If it is, then "Sex and the City" will not be given to abc.Jed thought for a while, "I have a good script here, which tells the story of a few housewives in a middle-class community. I think this story should make our Mondays very distinctive." The housewife of the Gods drama was brought out to increase the attention of we TV network. "As for the comedy on Tuesday, I have a comedy with almost no female lead, Two and a Half Men. We still don't do reality shows on Wednesday, because I have a comedy on How I Met Your Mother. Continue to broadcast. On Thursday, we can plan a reality show about travel, "The Speeding". As for the strong TV series on Friday, let me think..." In fact, the idea that Jed came up with can basically be Dominated the entire prime time, but Jed is not at ease.Because viewers still have a viewing habit, even if they may not like to watch ABC programs, they will still watch ABC programs because of their habits.Therefore, if a new TV network wants to break through, it must ensure that its programs must be a level better than the old TV network. "Let's do a story about Prison Break!"

What Jed and Pedewitz were talking about was just some conceptual stuff, and the script hadn't actually been created yet.However, Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company now has so many staff members. As long as these ideas are differentiated, a preliminary script will be released within a month at most.Pedewitz estimated the time, at most until next year, that is, in the spring, the time for the we TV network to really rise will come, and now is the time to run the team.

Jed has been staying at the TV network for about two months, and has put forward many suggestions for the entire we TV network.Some ideas that seem to be bad in the future are now "golden ideas", especially Jed's request that the back of the news anchor station be open-ended, which has suddenly become a standard feature of major news programs in the United States. It seems that if you don't do this, you will It's not like a news show.At the same time, Jed also put forward his own requirements for news programs, that is, each news program must have its own views and positions.Views and positions do not have to be consistent with the TV station, but there must be sufficient arguments to support one's views and positions.And it is important that if there are scientific arguments against your own views, then the news programs are also broadcast.In fact, the request made by Jed was a bit inconsistent with the trend of news programs at that time. Since CNN pioneered the 24-hour live news mode, the current news programs often throw the latest news to the audience without any modification, and then do not make any comments , euphemistically called "objective neutrality".But Jed encourages the news to be selective, and the news programs themselves have to be standpointed.Quite simply, if you don't have a stand for your news, then there's no one to support you.However, Jade's practice of not insisting that the major news programs in the station have the same standpoint also led to different standpoints for the news programs of the affiliated stations of the we TV network, and even the standpoints of the news programs for each time period of the main channel of we are also different.So often without the participation of other TV stations, we news station's own anchors can quarrel.Later, we news station simply launched the "news face-to-face" program on weekends, allowing anchors with different positions to directly refute each other.

"I think you may be the hardest boss in the United States?" John couldn't help but sigh, "Too many things have been done by yourself."

"Redstone and Murdoch didn't complain, but they are more than twice my age." Jed said with a smile, "John, thank you!"

"Huh?" John was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, "We both know each other so well, why don't we talk about thanking you?"

"It's because I'm too familiar that I can't take some things for granted." Jed said, "I found a lawyer and an accountant to divide my property. Part of it will be passed down as the property of the Sherman family, and the other part will be It is my personal property. As my reward to you, you will own one-third of it. Whether you stay with me or turn around and leave immediately, you will own one-third of my personal property .”

Of course John knew how much this property would be. He asked, "Jed, what do you mean? Don't say it's an oriental etiquette."

"You can count it as an oriental etiquette!" Jed laughed narrowly. "Before an oriental gets married, the man will give the woman a sum of money called a dowry. You can regard this as my dowry for you."

John shrugged and said, "I'm very Western, and I prefer Western marriage proposals!"