Chapter 254: Nine Variety Shows
After Henry's acquisition of the TV station, the entire American television industry has increased investment, and even CBS Broadcasting and NBC Broadcasting have reached a short-term alliance to encircle and suppress ABC Broadcasting Company very tacitly and tacitly, and many high-quality programs are licensed to each other for broadcasting, television, movies, sports, news, games, cartoons, music, etc., in order to enhance the competitiveness of both sides.
Because Henry is too rich, the two TV stations have a feeling of talking about him. As we all know, the TV industry is a "zero-sum market", where one makes money and the other loses money. ABC Broadcasting has developed and grown with the financial support of Henry, and it will inevitably cause huge losses to CBS Broadcasting and NBC Broadcasting! Therefore, when Henry has just entered this industry, it is necessary to give him a disadvantage, or a head-on attack!
The alliance between CBS and NBC has allowed both sides to have more excellent programs and increased ratings! ABC broadcasters, on the other hand, have seen a lot of drops.
Many "gunmen" at the level of experts and professors have come forward to speak and enter the ABC broadcasting company to carry out a lot of singing and depreciation.
"The water in the TV industry is very deep, don't think that you just have money. Henry Williams' acquisition of ABC Broadcasting was bound to be prepared for long-term losses. At present, ABC broadcasters have been jointly encircled and suppressed by multiple broadcasters, resulting in a decrease in ratings !!"
"Disney's programs have always been broadcast on ABC TV, which has become one of the important guarantees of ABC TV ratings. Apparently, however, the Disney Group is ready to part ways with ABC Broadcasting, and it may not be long before all of the Disney Group's programs will appear on CBS instead of ABC......
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Due to the amount of negative press, coupled with the fact that ABC Broadcaster is in a mess right now, the stock price plummeted. Many shareholders have sold their shares!
Henry didn't expect that not long after the acquisition of ABC Broadcasting, he felt embattled, and there was panic within ABC Broadcasting!
To stabilize morale. Henry promised a 5% to 10% wage increase and announced that the company would launch an equity incentive plan!
"The recent collapse in the stock price of ABC Broadcasting is a good opportunity to buy the bottom! If you believe me, then hurry up and buy ABC Broadcasting shares, I can guarantee you. You're going to make a lot of money in the future!!," Henry said in a televised address to the entire staff at ABC.
Henry spoke of the opportunity to make a fortune, and as for how many people were willing to listen to him, that was their business.
Those who believe in me have a bulging wallet, and those who do not believe in me will regret it!
In Henry's view, the level of ratings is directly linked to the program, as long as there is a good program, the ratings will increase, and Henry is going to make all broadcasters dumbfounded this time!
This time, NBC broadcasters and CBS broadcasters are in alliance. Isn't it because there are more good programs than ABC broadcasters?
And the last thing Henry lacks is good program ideas!
TV series, variety shows, etc., Henry can spit out dozens of classic shows when he opens his mouth!
While the outside world was singing about ABC Broadcasting, Henry sat in front of the computer and typed nine variety shows for ABC: "American Idol" and "The Voice of America" on Saturday night, "Survivor" and "Survival in the Wild" on Sunday night, "The Amazing Race," "running-man" and "America's Got Talent." "National Super Model Rookie Contest" and "Millionaire" are broadcast from 19:30 to 21:00 from Monday to Friday, and after 21 o'clock, it is time to broadcast TV series!
American TV series airs one episode a week. So five different TV series will be shown from Monday to Friday!
For TV stations, in addition to purchasing a small number of excellent works, Henry basically focuses on original programs.
And to do original programs, it is natural to recruit a lot of talents.
ABC Broadcasting has its own production department, but there are a lot of programs that are outsourced! It can't meet Henry's request for the time being.
As a result, Henry decided to inject $2 billion into ABC Broadcasting!
In addition to ABC TV, which needs to shoot a lot of programs, movieTV also needs to shoot a lot of original movies, original TV movies!
In addition, the output value of animation is immeasurable, and it is necessary to recruit more TV animation production talents, launch more excellent children's cartoons, and create an excellent children's channel babyTV.
At the same time, CNN News also needs to recruit more reporters and collect more news around the world!
Henry designed nine variety shows that night, and then went to apply for intellectual copyright! Although the show has no patent rights, it has copyrights. In the United States, programs with a relatively high degree of similarity can be sued for infringement!!
After ABC Broadcasting hired a large number of talents to produce the show, Henry gave the company the program he designed.
Nine programs, all classics!
The program production team was shocked beyond measure, and everyone couldn't help but talk about it.
"The Voice of America and American Idol are two music talent shows, which are new and interesting, highly interactive, and are bound to be very popular after they are launched. I think we can build ABC Records and sign these new talent pickies!!"
"Survivor is very interesting, throwing sixteen participants on an exotic desert island, limiting them to rely on limited tools to survive, and participating in a competition, voting to eliminate their opponents, and the survivor who stays in the end can win a prize of $1 million! The interesting thing about this show is that it strengthens the conflict between man and the natural environment! There is no abundant fruit on the desert island, and the survivors are not allowed to bring their own food, they can only chop wood, light a fire, build a house, and build their own houses like Robinson did back then. Build a raft and live a life of eating insects and mice, being bitten by insects, and being frightened by snakes and scorpions. In order to survive, the participants have to use all kinds of tricks, so that the confrontation between man and nature has reached the **, and the audience will be addicted! In addition, because the vote is an elimination vote, so, there will definitely be no less intrigue between each other, this is simply a big drama, alliance, discord, ****, temptation and other tricks can be used, if there are a few sexy girls in the show, I dare to guarantee that the ratings will not be low!!"
"The show "Survival in the Wilderness" is even more awesome, directly throwing a person into a deserted place, without any tools, and the danger factor is extremely high! Mr. Williams wrote a special sentence on the design draft, which I think is used to describe the warriors who dare to participate in this show, which is indeed very accurate - 'The man at the top of the food chain'!! yes, he will eat anything he can eat in the show!"
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In the face of doubts from the outside world, ABC TV has started the preparations for nine variety shows in full swing!
On the other hand, Henry wrote another TV series "Friends", but only wrote two episodes and a general outline, and the rest of the content was directly handed over to other screenwriters to write in this style. The American screenwriting industry has established an assembly line work model, where screenwriters write according to what they are good at, and even each screenwriter is responsible for describing a character!
So, although "Friends" will be different from the previous life, as long as the style is consistent, it will look good!
"Friends" is also called "Six Walking", the content of the play is six friends living in Manhattan, centered on a series of funny stories that happened in life! This TV series is so classic, once it was launched, it was widely acclaimed, detonated a ratings frenzy, from 1994 to 2004, lasted for 10 seasons, and became one of the most popular dramas in the United States.
Ten seasons of "Friends", Henry can be said to have never left an episode, and he is familiar with the characters and content in the play!
In order to keep "Friends" as it was as it was, Henry asked people to find these six leading actors. The acting skills of these six actors were excellent, which left a deep impression on Henry. Therefore, there is no need to change to another person!
As for these six leading actors, they have all debuted now, but they haven't mixed up, and their contact information can be easily found from the Screen Actors Guild of America!
After Henry told the story to continue, the staff began to contact the six actors.
At this time, Bobby Robin came to Henry's office with a smile on his face.
"Chairman, the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls will hold a friendly game at the Los Angeles Coliseum at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and ESPN TV will broadcast the whole game there, are you going to watch a basketball game?!"
"Michael Jordan is still with the Bulls?!" Henry asked.
"Of course!" Bobby Robin paused, "but there are rumors that Jordan will retire in 1993!"
"Oh......" Henry looked down for a moment, then said to Bobby Robin, "Okay, since we're all about to retire, let's watch his game!"
Bobby Robin nodded and told Henry with a smile, "ESPN will leave at 2 o'clock and get there early, we can go with the film crew, and by the way, we can also meet the Lakers and Bulls in the backstage lounge!"
Henry nodded: "Okay, then we'll go over with the ESPN film crew......"
After lunch, Henry rested for an hour, and Bobby Robin informed Henry that the film crew was ready to go. Henry answered, and walked out of the office to join them. Henry also made a phone call and asked Helen to come over to watch the game together.
By the time we arrived at the Los Angeles Coliseum, it was already 2:20 p.m. The film crew split into two groups and went to the Lakers and Bulls for interviews. And Henry went to the Bulls with the film crew......
(To be continued.) )