Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Seeing Viacom's mtv television network and bet television network become the first and second cable TV networks in the United States, Jed had to face up to this Sally Redstone who seemed to have risen through the care of his parents Ms.There are currently about three companies in the United States that are enthusiastic about the cable network, Murdoch's News Corporation, Sally Redstone's Viacom and Jed Sherman's Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group.

Murdoch is worthy of being an old fox in the media industry. After Jed and others leveraged the U.S. Congress, Murdoch immediately established two cable channels, namely FX Channel and Fox News Channel, and each established a cable TV network. .Jed is certainly no stranger to Fox News Channel.When Obama ran for president, Fox News Channel, CNN, and msnbc were listed as the three major news stations in the United States. Fox News Channel was the mouthpiece of conservatives and the Republican Party, and msnbc was the stronghold of the elite and the Democratic Party. Tossed aside by American audiences.As for the fx channel, it is simply a good brother of hbo. hbo has always been passionate about sex and frivolity, and fx channel is all about violence and frivolity.

Although Murdoch was the first to do it, he was finally defeated by the mtv television network and bet television network under Sally Redstone.First of all, mtv and bet, the two television networks, have their own professional channels in addition to comprehensive channels; secondly, Sally very wisely chose to only focus on entertainment, music, and film and television channels. After the so-called party interference, bet and bet The subscription rate of mtv is naturally astonishingly high.

In fact, Jade is not very interested in cable TV, but his partner Warner Entertainment Group also has a Warner Cable TV company. After being merged into Warner Dongfeng Guangbo Group, the ratings of wecn (Warner Dongfeng Cable Network) have been continuously increasing. relatively sluggish.Fortunately, everyone didn't expect it to make money, because Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group has been persuaded by Jed to plan the weplus channel.

However, Jed asked Sally to talk about a cooperation plan, but his inner Chinese blood played a role again. In his previous life, he saw American pop culture attacking the Asian market, and Jed was like opening up a second battlefield for Asian culture in the United States. "Can we consider launching a mtvasia channel under the mtv television network?"

"Mtvasia channel?" Sally frowned, "Does Mr. Sherman know how many music channels I have? All of my music channels are under the Viacom Music and Logo Group, except for the logo channel. Except for broadcasting lifestyle programs, the rest are music channels. The current Viacom music channel can be divided into three major channel groups: vh1, mtv and cmt, except for cmt and cmtpurecounty, which are TV channels specializing in country music. But my vh1 and mtv have a total of 9 channels, but they are all TV channels for all kinds of music. Except for the first channel of vh1, which is comprehensive music, the rest of vh1soul is a channel dedicated to spiritual songs, and vh1classic is dedicated to classics Music. MTV has Channel [-], Channel [-], Latin Channel, University Channel, Hits Channel and Jams Channel, where do I have the time and energy to do Asian Channel?"

Jed was also taken aback when Sally finished talking about her own music channel.No wonder mtv can become the first global music channel in the future. It is extremely difficult for people to subdivide music into so many channels. "Anyway, we were going to promote your mtv program in Asia. We can also use local program resources to make a program and sell it back to the United States. Asian culture has always been very curious to Americans. I believe there will be ratings."

In fact, Jed is not completely fooling Sally Redstone. In a few years, after a round of Japanese pop culture harassment, Korean pop culture will come back to the United States to play the autumn wind... Finally, even the most senior variety show "Saturday Night" in the United States "Live" also couldn't stand it, and in the whole season of the show, a small column was specially set up to mock Japanese and Korean pop culture.Of course, Jed understands the importance Americans place on their own culture and their wariness against foreign cultures, but treating Japanese and Korean pop culture with such a high standard is too much of a trivial matter, right?

"You don't have to worry about advertising, Japan and South Korea are willing to pay to get their pop culture into the United States."

Just like in order to let Japanese and Korean players enter European clubs, Japanese and Korean companies are desperately throwing money in Europe.

"Since this is the case, don't hang up under the mtv system. There are already enough mtv channels." What Sally said in her heart is that she doesn't have a direct line channel that completely belongs to her. Since Jed thinks that this Asian music channel has great potential, then he It's a complete gamble. "We can make a cam channel (Asian music channel) and put it under the mtv television network. If the cam is done well, we can split it into the first channel and the second channel in the future. But in advance, the cam channel The copyright and operating rights are all owned by Viacom Group, and the advertising fee can be divided into half of your Asian Broadcasting Group."

Jed didn't expect Sally to kill so hard, but he didn't expect to be a cam channel by himself, after all, it's better to leave such a professional thing to a professional person.Although Jed didn't care about the money and creativity, he still pretended to be heartbroken, "Ms. Redstone, you've killed me twice in a row on Paramount and MTV!"

Sally was in a very happy mood at this time, and finally got two pieces of news that were beneficial to her from an opponent she valued.But she also understands that doing business is not a one-shot deal, and it is not in her own interest to push her partners into a hurry.She thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I heard that you are dealing with music copyright recently, and our family still has a relationship with Emi. How about this, how about I find a time to ask Emi's president to come out and have a meal with you , how about you talk about licensing?"

"That's naturally good." Jed naturally knew that this kind of entertainment family always had some inextricable connections.It is not impossible to contact Emi directly, but it would be better to have an acquaintance to connect. Although emi has declined since entering the new century, as the most senior music group in the world, they hold more music copyrights.You are like the copyrights of some early Chinese singers (such as: Zhang Xuan, Hu Die, etc.) are all in the hands of emi. Google Play cannot only be a business for young people for a lifetime. Middle-aged and elderly users have more wealth, so they can find some classics. It's even better when the record hits the shelves.

After negotiating with Sally, the two appeared at the gate of the Four Seasons Hotel talking and laughing.Seeing the two people talking and laughing happily, the paparazzi and entertainment reporters guarding the door dropped their glasses in shock.An entertainment reporter said in a report afterwards: "At that moment, I thought I saw that Palin was going to accept Obama's marriage proposal!"

"Tell me, why are you willing to cooperate with him?" Lei Shidong asked Sally, "I remember you dislike him very much."

"I still don't like him now." Sally corrected, "However, whether I like him or not and whether I do business or not are two different things. Since I accepted Viacom Group, my more important status is the president of Viacom Group. I have to be responsible for the shareholders and employees of the company and create more profits for them. As for my personal emotional issues, I think they can be put aside for the time being.”

"So you gave up some of Paramount's interests to support Viacom Media Group?" Redstone pressed.

"It's as if you would rather split CBS and Viacom back then. All I did was to choose the less harmful result." Sally explained, "Where are the old people at Paramount?" Can you listen to my opinion? If that’s the case, then let them fend for themselves. Also, I must remind you, Dad, the DreamWorks people are playing tricks.”

"They have ideas, but there is nothing they can do about it." Lei Shidong sighed, "At the end of the year, I will find a way to arrange an executive director position for you within Viacom's board of directors, so that you can control Viacom M."

Jed returned to the company beamingly, and said to Shannette and John with a smile: "The recycling of the 'Marvel Ultimate Universe Project' has completed a big step, Paramount's Thor, Iron Man and Captain America The adaptation rights have been withdrawn, we only need to give Paramount the joint authorship rights of the first episode of "Thor" and "Captain America". In addition, all the programs under the mtv television network are agents in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and Greater China The rights will be handed over to the Asian Broadcasting Group. At the same time, the Asian Broadcasting Group and the Viacom Group will form an Asian music channel in the United States—Cam, which will be broadcast on the MTV network. The last piece of good news is that Viacom The group is willing to act as a negotiating bridge between us and emi."

"This is really good news. If Paramount is willing to let us redeem the adaptation rights, then our negotiations with Universal and Fox will be easy, but how should we solve Sony?" Shannity still had a headache.

"Let them do the Spider-Man series, they only have three episodes anyway. After they shoot three episodes, we'll do The Amazing Spider-Man and take their lead and make our movie. "Jed continued.

Just before the Oscars, Galaxy Films immediately announced a piece of good news, "Based on the good cooperation experience between the two parties, Paramount Pictures is willing to share three of the Thor, Iron Man and Captain America films it owns." At the same time, we will cooperate with Paramount Pictures to shoot the first film of the "Thor" and "Captain America" ​​series. It is expected that the two films will be released in succession around 2010. "

After the Galaxy Films dealt with Paramount quickly, many analysts said that the mistakes in the acquisition of Marvel Entertainment were still within a controllable range, and the performance of Galaxy Films also proved that they were capable of correcting this mistake.Affected by this good news, the stock of Galaxy Film Entertainment, which had been falling, suddenly rose.

And just after Galaxy Films announced the news, Viacom Cable Company and Asia Broadcasting Group issued a joint statement the next day that all the programs of Viacom Cable Company's mtv TV network will be handed over to Asia Broadcasting Group. ABC and Viacom Cable will form the Asian Music Channel within the mtv network.So after the stock price of Galaxy Movies soared, the stock of Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company also began to rebound.

Although it seems that this is a matter of the Asian Broadcasting Group, how can a discerning person not know the relationship between the Asian Broadcasting Group and Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company?

The author has something to say: Well, the first problem has been solved.

I just checked the information and found that Viacom has a lot of music channels.

I won't say much about their vivo music channel in Europe. In the North American market alone, there are four major music brands: vh1, mtv, cmt and bet.

Bet is specifically for African-Americans, so it basically takes care of black music.

Bet One is the main channel of the bet TV network, which is an entertainment channel, not a purely music channel.

The centric channel under bet is a jazz channel; betgospel is a gospel music channel; and bethip-hop is a hip-hop music channel.

CMT is originally the abbreviation of CountyMusicTelevision, and you can tell it is the country music channel just by looking at the name.

But in addition to country music programs, cmt also has reality shows and dramas, so the cmtpurecounry channel was opened up to broadcast all kinds of country music tapes 24 hours a day.

So you know how big the audience for country music is in America.

MTV is, of course, the well-known music television channel.

But mtv [-] is not a pop music channel, but a rock music channel.But now mtv [-] is already a comprehensive channel, not only music programs, but also reality shows and TV dramas.

MTV2 is actually the successor after MTV turned to the integrated channel. MTV2 mainly broadcasts music videos and related programs of rock music and hip-hop music.

mtv3 is actually mtvtr3s, a Latin channel.Spanish is used throughout the channel, and the programs broadcast are also related to Latin music.

Then there is the mtvhits channel, which is popular music and rap music channels at a glance, because these two types of music are popular in the United States.

The mtvu channel is a music channel developed by mtv and various American universities to support American campus music culture, so it is basically the performance of student bands.

The mtvjams channel mainly focuses on urban rock and hip-hop music, mainly targeting young white-collar workers in the city.

The original meaning of vh1 is videohitsone, and mtv is the real sister station.

MTV mainly focuses on music in the American market, while VH1 includes singers from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and Europe.

Basically, as long as it is music from English-speaking or Spanish-speaking countries, VH1 will introduce it.

So vh1 can be understood as the international channel of mtv.

In addition to introducing mainstream music such as pop music, rock music, hip-hop music and rap music, vh1 also opened up two sub-channels, vh1classic and vh1soul.

Vh1soul broadcasts soul songs just by looking at the name; vh1classic broadcasts classic music, that is, the old songs channel.

Note that vh1classic does not broadcast classical music programs like the bbc premium channel.It's a classic, not a classic.