Chapter Seventy-Six: Television Network
After the finale banquet, Lester returned to Bird Film and Television with the finished film to edit, in addition to him, Bruckheimer and Simpson followed over to supervise.
While Lester was editing in the editing room with Bruckheimer and Simpson, the two superhero comics of Asuka Comics had not yet been printed, and Fields' acquisition of the television network was completed first.
In the earliest television field in North America, the national television network was carried out through radio signal transmission, and the earliest television stations CBS, NBC, and abc were all derived from radio signals.
As we all know, the transmission of radio signals is limited by refusal, if you want to establish a national television network, you need to establish transmission base stations in different regions, and now the wired and wireless network is rapidly spreading in North America, and in the early 90s, the Clinton administration came to power and issued the information superhighway plan, and cable TV operators have been vigorously developed.
The team led by Fields and Wells Fargo embarked on an operation to buy the television network.
After investigating, the two teams decided that KCEF and the remaining five local stations in California, which had been serving the central and southern regions, were the most suitable acquisition, and set their sights on there.
Launched in 1964, the KCEF television network has produced less popular televisions, with an annual budget of more than $15 million, 66 percent of which is sponsored by viewers.
When the executives of KCEF TV and the other five TV stations received that someone wanted to buy their TV station, they couldn't believe that someone would buy their TV station, until they officially received the acquisition letter, they had to believe that they were bought by Nok Bird Films.
After receiving the news brought by Fields, Lester was halfway through the editing of "Top Gun", so he could only put down the work at hand and walked out of the editing room.
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"The TV station has been acquired, and the next step is whether we should go for a wireless network or a cable network. โ
Lester walked into the office, and as soon as he sat down in his chair, Fields gave Lester two questions to choose from.
The restrictions of the times, so that Leicester is not easy to choose, now is still the era of wireless television network, although the cable network is in rapid development, but not as fast as the mid-90s, as far as he knows, the cable network in the 80s still belongs to the HBO television network and the ANC television network will be transferred to the cable network in 87.
Lester thought about it, but still wanted to see what Fields thought, and said, "What do you think?"
Since Fields was asked to buy the TV station, he naturally also looked up wired and wireless materials.
Fields groaned and said with a solemn expression: " If you choose the wireless TV network, we will spend 2 billion US dollars, of course, under your leadership, the company's total assets miraculously reached 2.2 billion, the current 2 billion may not be difficult for us to fly bird film and television, but spend 2 billion US dollars, bird film and television will become the same as last year, there are many things we will be restricted, the company's operation can not allow you to build a wireless TV network base station like this, will make the next plan shelved, we are neither the five families, nor Rupert ยท Murdoch, there is no capital that can be squandered for us. โ
With that in Fields' words, Lester already understands that he's more bullish on cable networks.
Fields took a sip of the water handed over by the assistant, and then said analytically: "Maybe the cable network is not as big as the wireless network now, but the data from the team's investigation of the HBO TV network shows that although they have not produced many popular TV movies, the number of people who order every day is slowly increasing, especially when it has received good reviews, when the number increases, the energy generated is no less than that of the wireless TV network, I think we can join the camp of the cable TV network." โ
Listening to Fields' analysis, Lester's eyes lit up, and he had already decided to use the cable network.
And the so-called cable network is the cable network operator, by them to provide services.
Cable networks are divided into two categories, one is the premium cable channel, which is on the basic cable, and the other channel can only be watched after paying a fee, just like HBO, which only relies on (family subscription fees exacerbate DVD sales), that is, they have no ads.
Unlike HBO, Lester opted for Basic Cable, which has (a family subscription plus commercial breaks and episode DVD sales), which means they will roll commercials.
After Phil finished talking about cable networks, he analyzed the cable network operators with Lester.
After listening to Fields's words, Leicester clapped and said: "Then go to the cable network, and the operator chooses Comcast's basic Cable." โ
"I'll go right away. Fields got up and walked out of the office and took the team to talk to the cable network operator.
Lester turned to Deems, who had been listening to them, and said, "Help me set up the TV department, this is the TV script I wrote for "ER Story", you help me prepare the crew, and the main male protagonists in it are George Clooney and Anthony Edwards. With that, Lester took a script from a drawer and placed it on the table.
"It seems to be for George Clooney. As soon as Dimes heard it, he understood that Lester was prepared for his own team of artists, and picked up "The Story of the Emergency Room" to read it, which tells the story of an emergency room in Chicago, USA, where patients in need of emergency are admitted every day, and each medical staff uses their superb medical skills and benevolent love to help every patient.
In the plot!
If the hospital is a life-and-death battleground, then the emergency room doctors and nurses are at the vanguard of this war. At a hospital in Chicago, these emergency room doctors on the ground floor of the hospital do some of the hardest jobs in the hospital for a relatively low salary, working 36 hours straight, racing against death and dealing with all the contingencies before the doctor on duty takes over. And they treat not only illness and pain, every day someone leaves healthily, there are also people here forever close their eyes, facing different attitudes towards health and life and death, a variety of different patients and their families This special stage exposes their true inner good and evil, beauty and ugliness, in addition to busy and intense work, the doctors in the emergency room must also face the tribulations of their own lives, and even face the life, old age, sickness and death of colleagues who get along day and night......
End of plot.
"Very good script, I'll go for it. Dimes picked up the script and said with a smile, turning to prepare the TV crew.
Seeing Dimes out, Lester got up to go to the editing room, when Chris pushed open the door and walked in.
"What's the matter. Lester asked, looking at Chris.
"Two comics have been completed. Chris said with a smile on his face;