Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Jed also knew that this result was already the best result, and if he was insatiable, he might just collapse completely.As for CCTV's proposal to cooperate with Bloomberg and other internationally renowned economic news organizations, Jed will not object.Although it is very likely that I will be thrown away in the future and go it alone, my financial station will broadcast to the three places on both sides of the strait. If you can't even overcome this small setback, then what's the point of claiming to be the "No. [-] in Asia" CNBC"?

After the two sides reached a tacit understanding, the deputy director happily chatted with Jed about movies and TV.When talking about Jade's "Toy Story" released in mainland China, the deputy director was particularly interested in the technology in it, but once he learned the cost of this technology, he flinched again.Jed couldn't help shaking his head inwardly. Although he knew that China's foreign exchange at this time was more important to spend, if he really had ambitions for the cultural industry, he shouldn't care about this investment.The mainland in that time and space can only adopt the so-called "domestic film protection month" administrative measures to protect domestic films. Such a result will not benefit the progress of domestic films except for giving the United States a reason to criticize China at the WTO. .

At this time, Jed also extinguished the idea of ​​making suggestions. After all, in their eyes, he was a foreign capitalist through and through. Although he had a quarter of Chinese blood, and although he had a special affection for China, he As an American capitalist, his proposal must be driven by special interests.Rather than trying to please others, it's better not to interrupt.

However, although Jed did not directly make suggestions, he still has no secrets in some business concepts.Especially when Jed said that he had a TV channel dedicated to broadcasting history, culture and biographies, the deputy director always thought that such a TV channel would not make money.But Jed persuaded him with the "Twenty Eight Theory". Although the ratings of the History Channel are not high, all of the viewers are high-income and high-diploma class in the United States.The consumption power of this group is excellent, so the History Channel has been the main advertising channel for the luxury goods, banking, insurance and consulting industries in the United States.

Jed now not only has a history channel dedicated to broadcasting American history and culture, but also opened up a H2 channel for world history and culture.Jade is also planning to start a dedicated biography channel and a military history channel, and perhaps split H2 into a European history channel and an Asian history channel.

Hearing Jade's breakdown of the viewing market, the deputy director fell silent.The success of the History Channel is not only to capture a segmented audience, but also to its peripheral related derivatives, such as books and DVDs.The United States has special copyright laws to protect the high profits of these peripheral records, but China has no way.Even if CCTV spends all its money to make a set of historical and cultural programs, I am afraid that pirated copies will fly all over the sky the next day, and books and DVDs will be published...

Of course, Jed knew where CCTV was hesitating. In future generations, "A Bite of China" has not yet been released on DVD, and various high-definition TV remakes can be seen everywhere on the Internet.Jed sometimes doubts that if there is no state investment, I am afraid that this documentary will make CCTV vomit a mouthful of blood, right?

At the end of the meal, in order to make a good impression on the deputy director and the CCTV behind him, Jed suddenly suggested: "I have a suggestion, CCTV can broadcast 5 seconds before "News Network" and "Weather Forecast" "In the first 5 seconds, an advertisement opening will be opened, and there should be many people buying it."

When talking to smart people, you only need to point to the end. Jed will not talk too much, so as not to make CCTV think that he is too lenient;Therefore, both parties did not continue the topic in a very tacit understanding, but praised the dishes tonight, and then said goodbye to each other.

On the next day, both parties came up with their final proposals. Since the two proposals were similar, a final cooperation agreement was reached.Jade did not attend the final signing ceremony, but left the opportunity to show his face to Lin Jianyue and Lansing, because they will have many opportunities to go to the mainland, so it would be better to let relevant people in the mainland know about them as soon as possible.Jed, on the other hand, poured himself a glass of whiskey and put some ice cubes in his office.

"Are you really so optimistic about the Chinese mainland market?" At some point, John quietly walked behind him. "These are the materials you entrusted to investigate. Oh, it's really hard to collect information on the mainland. Fortunately, this is not important information."

"A market with a population of more than one billion, do you think I should pay attention to it?" Jed asked back, "By the way, do you have the economic data of Southeast Asian countries that I want you to check for me? Also, Soros and their Has the fund made any moves?"

John suddenly gave Jed a serious look, "Sometimes I really suspect that you are either a prophet, or you have a national intelligence agency serving you, why do you always find the most important things at the most critical moments? ? Soros is said to be attacking Asia, and the first breakthrough point is the countries in Southeast Asia..."

Jed was a little scared by John's stare, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "This is just a repeat of the 'Plaza Agreement' in Japan. From the point of view of Marx's "Das Kapital", the capitalist economy has an inevitable There are only two ways to solve the economic crisis: one can learn from Hitler and transfer one's own crisis to other countries; Four little tigers, are we going to charge some interest? Besides, the world factories in Asia have taken a lot of foreign exchange from us. If we don’t take the opportunity to pass on our economic crisis to them, are we still waiting for the dollar to go bankrupt?”

"Who made the U.S. dollar the world's settlement currency?" John also sneered, "Since the abolition of the gold standard, the U.S. dollar has become the preferred bond for all economic entities in the world. It's just a pity that no creditor dares to collect debts in the U.S., otherwise The United States has gone bankrupt hundreds of times. Those creditors are actually very annoying, and I’m afraid it won’t work if you don’t beat them occasionally.”

Jed didn't continue the conversation. Since the end of World War II, the United States has aggressively expanded its capital empire around the world.It can be said that the recovery of the global economy after World War II has something to do with the investment of the United States.But any investment has a purpose. Do you think the United States will not reap its "fruits of labor" after bringing the originally bankrupt countries to revival?After paying the price, the Europeans united to form the "European Community" and evolved into the "EU" in order to preserve their own development fruits.

Americans who have not taken advantage of Europe naturally turn their attention to Asia, where the economic system is not perfect, and the first goal is Japan, which regards itself as a reborn father. The Plaza Accord in the 80s not only took a piece of meat from Japan, but also brought the Japanese economy to the brink of collapse. Since then, there has been no progress for nearly 20 years.

But how can the fat on Japan alone satisfy the greed of Americans? The activity of the "Four Little Dragons" and "Four Little Tigers" once again stimulated the nerves of the Americans. The American fists are ready for these Asian children who are bragging about gold and showing off in the downtown area.Jed is not a good person, he will naturally follow in the footsteps of the giant American crocodiles to bite off a piece of meat.But he is also ready to bite these American giants in the Hong Kong market, because there will be their Waterloo.

Although many analysis articles in later generations pointed out that with the help of the mainland, although Hong Kong has held the foreign exchange market, the stock market and futures market have suffered a crushing defeat.This also led to an important reason for Hong Kong's slow economic development after the return. It was not until the signing of the CEPA agreement that Hong Kong was able to draw nutrients from the mainland and prosper again.

The cooperation between Dongfeng TV and CCTV soon became the news that major media rushed to report. Even Lei Shidong and Murdoch called to congratulate each other, but the tone was so sour.To put it bluntly, Viacom and News Corporation did not know how much manpower and material resources were spent, and the final result may not be much better than Dongfeng TV.

"Why do you say you are so lucky?" Lei Shidong asked with a smile on the phone, "I heard that you have a package of cooperation agreements in private, and it is said that they have prepared a platform for us overseas TV, Is there such a thing?"

Jed knew that the matter of the Great Wall platform would be made public soon anyway, and helping Lei Shidong to confirm this matter was incidental. "Yes, they plan to set up a Great Wall satellite platform to broadcast overseas TV to their mainland through this platform. However, only foreign-related hotels and apartments, or some other special institutions can apply to access this channel to watch programs."

"Talk is better than nothing!" Lei Shidong lost interest as soon as he heard it, and he knew with his toes that the final audience of this platform would be very limited. How could it be more attractive than a billion viewers? "Also, we will meet in Hong Kong soon."

After Lei Shidong finished speaking, he hung up the phone, and Jed naturally knew that he was talking about his cooperation with TVB.Jade is really not afraid of MTV's involvement in TVB's programs. After all, in terms of localization, his programs are more in line with Chinese tastes.

Not long after Redstone hung up the phone, Murdoch also came to ask about some agreements behind the cooperation.After hearing about the Great Wall platform, he also became a little depressed, "It seems that I'd better develop my Indian market, but fortunately, you are not interested here."

Jed curled his lips and said, "I'm not interested in entering the Indian market. I don't guarantee that Mr. Redstone is not interested."

"Where does he have energy?" Murdoch sneered, "Paramount and CBS under him are not vegetarians."

Although Murdoch hung up the phone without elaborating, Jed quickly realized a problem, and the Viacom group was about to split.To put it bluntly, in the old Viacom group, the film faction and the TV faction fought to the death for the right to speak.In the end, in order to allow the Viacom Group to continue, Redstone directly split Viacom by taking a drastic approach.

The TV faction split off from the Viacom Group to form the CBS Group, while Paramount and the three major cable companies MTV, BET, and LOGO formed the New Viacom Group.However, the new Viacom Group did not have peace for too long, and soon the cable TV faction led by MTV will make trouble again, but fortunately, the leading brother, MTV, has failed in investment decisions in the next few years, and finally had to stop and rest. The new Viacom Group may have to face another split.

Thinking of this, Jed had to cry for Lei Shidong...