Chapter 1203 A Talk Show Full of Promise
Larry King, who had been thinking about it for a long time, did not directly agree to Robert Iger.
However, he also felt Disney's sincerity and said that he would think about it.
But in Robert Iger's opinion, Larry King would definitely be willing to switch ship to the Disney TV channel unless he was a.
No matter how influential the radio station is, can it compare with the TV station?
Especially for a super upstart like Disney TV channel, others would love to be able to get close, let alone a brand new program in charge of everything.
There are two reasons why Larry King didn't immediately agree, and Robert Iger analyzed.
The first is that he still needs to seriously consider how to produce the show after changing jobs, and more realistically, how to form a team, who to poach, and who to hire, all of which must be considered and tested before he can decide.
The second, more important, is Larry King's consideration of Disney's restrictions.
Now everyone knows what contract Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Eddie Murphy, and the stars of "Happy Hotel" signed, which has been strongly criticized by the American media as "the most demanding filmmaker contract", but because Kirin Culture has done a thoughtful job in details and avoided all legal issues, everyone can only condemn it morally and can't find trouble.
As for the media making a fuss, Disney and United Arts Pictures are not too worried.
Yin Jun has long told them very bluntly, the most powerful weapon of a film company is to constantly make good works, with movies, there is everything, and the rest is nothing.
After the previous difficulties, the two companies now agree with the boss's concept, and what those media people say should be regarded as farts.
No, it's not a fart, it's also a way to increase the topic, increase the visibility of the two companies, and advertise for us.
Don't look at the media people making a lot of trouble, but in fact, there are many people in Hollywood who are eager to sign such a demanding contract.
Why?
Because people who can sign this kind of contract will be able to become popular immediately.
In the United States, you can't have an agent contract to tie me up for five years, ten years, that is, 20 years, 10 movies, or 15 years of a TV series contract, and the rest will not interfere, what's wrong with that?
If you look at Schwarzenegger, after he starred in "The Terminator", he was worth $10 million after receiving three commercials, and then at least five or six movies rushed to ask him to be the protagonist, didn't this bring back the loss in Kirin Culture and make a lot of money?
It just so happens that Robert Iger gave Larry King exactly this kind of harsh contract.
If Larry King jumps to the Disney TV channel, although he can get a good treatment and has no limited budget, his annual salary will rise from the current $150,000 to $500,000 in one go, and it will increase year by year, but correspondingly, the Disney TV channel gives him a lot of restrictions.
First of all, the copyright of this talk show belongs to the Disney TV channel, and if Larry King wants to change jobs in the future, this show can't go with him.
Larry Kim has no opinion on this, he is not well-known now, and he doesn't have to say whether the show is good or not, and he has no bargaining capital at all.
But the next conditions are what make Larry King cry and laugh.
Because the Disney TV channel wants to sign him to a 20-year contract.
In the TV industry in the United States, the host is generally a 5-year contract at most, and there are 10-year contracts, but there are absolutely no 20-year contracts.
Disney TV channels will not be so stupid, it is impossible to sign a contract together for 20 years, but first for ten years, and then there is a supplementary contract that stipulates the right to renew the contract for ten years under the same conditions as the previous one.
It's actually been twenty years.
Larry King is 39 years old this year, and if he signs a contract for 20 years, he will be 59 years old, and his career will basically be over.
Although the conditions given by the Disney TV channel are good, the salary is very good, the program production is also done by Larry King himself, and their platform is big enough, it should be said that there is nothing better than here.
But everyone is full of uncertainty about the future, whether it is Europe, the United States, or Asia.
Twenty years, I don't know what happened in the middle, how could he easily tie his entire career to such a place?
Normal people don't.
Especially people who are confident in their talents.
Larry King is not yet developed, but he has never doubted his talent and has been working hard.
So he needs to think about it and weigh the gains and losses carefully.
But Robert Iger was not worried, he had previously reviewed Larry King's information, and had been observing Larry King when he was talking to him.
In Larry King's eyes, Robert Iger could see ambition.
As long as he is looking forward to going further in his career, then Larry King can't refuse Disney's terms.
To be honest, by now, it can't be said that Disney and United Arts movies have come to life, but the Disney TV channel is definitely ushering in a spring and is climbing up very quickly.
As a Disney TV channel, it is really a bit overkill to attract a talk show host with such generous and demanding conditions.
But Robert Egger believes in Yin Jun's vision more than Larry King, Robert Iger believes that there are geniuses in this world, and Yin Jun is a genius in terms of knowing and employing people.
Yin Jun was optimistic about so many people before, but he didn't look away, so this Larikin will definitely not be wrong.
Robert Iger wants to see what kind of achievement the "best talk show master" in Yin Jun's eyes will be in the future.
If you can really become the best talk show master, then the Disney TV channel will really go to heaven!
He came out of the ABC television network, and of course he knows how much wealth and momentum a good talk show will bring to a television station.
It would be an exaggeration to say that a good talk show can represent a third of the TV stations.
But if it can represent one-fifth of the TV stations, then Robert Iger thinks that it should be not much different.
Think about it!
How great is it that a self-directed and self-starred talk show can be on par with American dramas?
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Yin Jun, like Robert Iger, is not worried about Larry King's problems in the slightest.
It's not that he thinks Larry Kim will definitely come, but Yin Jun still has a lot of cards in his hand.
It's a very simple one, in a small town in the eastern part of the United States, a woman named Oprah has made her own deep mark in that city.
The following year, she would join ABC's Chicago branch and begin her life's legacy.
What is the concept that a woman can make $400 million a year just by virtue of a talk show?
In this world, I'm afraid only Queen Oprah can do it, right?
The reason why Yin Jun chose Larry King instead of Oprah is that the scale of the current Disney TV channel is too small, just a channel, and it can't accommodate so many programs.
When Xiangjiang's side stabilized, he bought ABC a few years later, and after integrating the entire TV network, he had a broader development prospect, and that was the time to give Oprah a bigger stage.
Oprah and Larry King are not quite the same.
Larry King's talk show is a weekday stand-up, while Oprah's talk show is more of an interview show and airs once a week.
So the two did not conflict.
If Larry Kim doesn't come, then Yin Jun can consider David Lightman, who made his talk show debut on NBC in February.
David Letterman is a talk show master of the same generation who became famous a few years before Larry King, and he is also sharp and full of wisdom and humor, and the other first person in the future talk show - Jon Stewart, is deeply influenced by him.
Embarrassed Situ, the superman who won the 9th Emmy Award for Best TV Variety Show in one go, is only 20 years old this year, but he doesn't need to be in a hurry to find him, but if he meets him, Yin Jun will still not let it go, sign it first.
Others, in the future, Chinese audiences will like button bears, fat Lun, Conan, etc., are almost all children now, so there is no need to think about it.
Anyway, with Yi Situ, a master who is good at cultivating and discovering new people, his disciples who are buckle bears can't escape from Yin Jun's palm.
On the other hand, the host of another interview show that Yin Jun likes very much, the second sister of the American hostess, second only to Queen Oprah, Ellen Dejaniss, Yin Jun feels that it is necessary to take her under his command in the next two years.
The older sister began to make a name for herself this year as a host on a comedy club show, but she would go on to enter the television industry and star in TV series, and it wasn't until she was 45 years old that the beloved "Ellen Show" was born and became a popular talk show for audiences around the world.
Although there are meat jokes and ridicule in the Allen show, most of these are warm and not ironic, so that more people will accept them.
Then again, don't look at Allen in the Allen show, she is dressed intellectually, but when Yin Jun watched her show in the United States a few months ago, he found that when this sister was young, she was really beautiful, blonde and blue-eyed - if you don't know that she actually likes women.
In contrast, Yin Jun has never talked about the gentleness of a few male talk show hosts, and they are almost all in the same vein of all kinds of ridicule and sharpness.
In the future, Yin Jun's TV network, the male talk show host, will naturally be responsible for all kinds of complaints and comments, attracting the attention of young people who are not afraid of heaven and earth, and the female talk show host will be responsible for warmth and care, so that housewives, as well as older people, will also like it.
A good talk show is definitely one of the most cost-effective programs.
Because they simply don't grab the prime time slot.
The talk shows of the male hosts usually add words like "tonight" and "late at night", which are generally broadcast around 11 o'clock, and this time period will not delay the broadcast of TV series or variety shows.
And if you get it right, you can completely attract the audience to start watching TV dramas and variety shows, and finally end the day's ratings with a late-night talk show, which greatly increases the audience's viscosity to the TV station.
This is a great thing for the TV network of Kirin Group!
The most important thing is that the talk show masters in the next forty years will all exist in Yin Jun's memory, and he is not afraid that they will run away.
When the host recruits enough, Yin Jun will also reduce their weekly appearance time, one person can broadcast two or three episodes a week, and let them rest and recharge the rest of the time.
lest he retire at the age of 53 like Situ, who is only 53 years old, and people can't wait to tie him back to the studio and continue to host for ten years!