"The construction and renovation of the venue will not begin until after an event at the end of October. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info so the time left for us will not be very long, and because of our change of style, the rehearsal of the performing singers will also have special rehearsals and rehearsals. ”

While spending only a few hours in front of the TV for an awards ceremony can take a lot of time just to rehearse and choreograph the performers. What's more, this time, at Sid's request, Dick Clark & Co. and Fire Lion TV also specially advanced the time of the event by a few months.

At the same time, the change in style of the AMA National Music Awards will only make the whole difficulty more difficult than before.

The style has changed, the time has been shorter, and it is the first time that the Lion TV has served as a live broadcast of the grand prize. Whether it's for Fire Lion or Dick Clark, or even for the AMA National Music Awards themselves, it's quite a challenge.

"There's no rush, and we don't need to be completely retrofitted in a year, which is obviously unrealistic. According to the original plan, it will take us 3 to 4 years to push the AMA National Music Awards step by step. Sid's poise and ease is amazing, and it always makes people forget the fact that he is only 18 years old.

“OK。 Old man Charles nodded, and when he was about to close the file, he suddenly thought of something: "By the way, there is one last thing, we signed a one-year purchase with Comcast last year, and the national broadcast rights contract has expired." ”

"Oh. Sid gave an interested expression, "And then?"

"Almost all cable operators have applied to us to broadcast programs. "According to the practice of the industry, from now on, we can charge 15~17 cents per subscriber in the hands of each operator." In this way, we can get more than $200 million in net revenue every year just from the broadcast fee. ”

Unlike a year ago, Lion TV, which had to pay a fee to join the cable network, was supposed to pay a fee. In just one year, Comcast has increased a large number of subscribers in a short period of time.

Seeing that Comcast has eaten alone for a year, several other major operators have long been impatient, including Warner Cable, Satellite Service Dish, and the old American cable TV, etc., all of which can't wait to extend an olive branch to Fire Lion TV.

And the Fire Lion has finally changed from paying fees to collecting broadcast fees from operators.

Based on the principle of killing mistakes and not letting go, after a certain amount of bargaining with a number of operators, the Fire Lion signed contracts with most of the cable companies in the United States. In this way, Fire Lion TV finally officially transformed into Fire Lion TV Network, and the signal really covered all parts of the United States.

"That's really all for So, right?" Sid asked again.

"That's all, nothing else. Old man Charles nodded.

"OK, that last one. Sid said and set his sights on Barry Weiss, CEO of Fire Lion Records, and Max Martin, creative director.

"It's finally us. Max Martin said with a grin.

But Barry Weiss said calmly: "Right now, our main business is focused on Britney's debut single and album. Since its release in January, "Baby One More Time" has sold more than 6.5 million albums and more than 2.3 million singles in North America. After landing in the UK in March, the album has also sold more than 1 million copies. ”

"Oh~~" Sid snapped his fingers, although in the impression that until Britney's debut was miraculous, but now seeing this amazing result in real time, even Sid couldn't help but be amazed.

And others couldn't help but exclaim, whether it was Old Man Charles of the Fire Lion Television Network, or Henry and Sean of Fire Lion Pictures. As the shortest established and weakest foundation of Fire Lion Records, it is indeed commendable that it can have such outstanding results in less than a year.

Seeing everyone's appreciation, Barry Weiss couldn't help but smile slightly, then he looked at Sid, thought about it in his heart, and said: "Although in North America and the United Kingdom, Britney's CDs and singles are selling well, but in other European countries, South America, Asia and other places, because we have no sales channels, we can only use the way of agency release. As a result, we get a much worse profit. ”

"Oh, what exactly?" asked Sid, raising an eyebrow and curious.

To be honest, the business of Fire Lion Records was originally only bought from Sony by Sid on a wit to protect Britney. Although he later set a strategy with Max Martin to disrupt the record industry. But what Sid really meant was clearly the future of digital music that he had teamed up with Steve Jobs.

So Sid himself doesn't know much about the traditional way of playing the record industry.

"The main way to sell in the record industry is through record stores, especially the big chain record stores. They're like a hypermarket like Wal-Mart. Barryvis first gave a brief and clear introduction to the current situation.

"And when it came to Britney's album release, the North American record labels were pretty quick to connect. However, overseas, in addition to the United Kingdom, South America, Asia, Oceania and other places have not really been opened. Barry Weiss's words made Sid suddenly wake up to something.

Before digital music took the world by storm, the importance of brick-and-mortar record stores couldn't be bypassed. And now Britney's popularity is obviously still a little inferior to the "crazy" in "history", the reason is that Jeve Records was originally one of the five major records, a subsidiary of Sony Records.

So "historically", after Britney's craze, Jive Records was able to use Sony Records' global sales network to sell and advertise.

But now the shortcomings of Fire Lion Records in this regard obviously restrict its development.

"Heh, what do you suggest?" asked Sid, after a long time. While digital music is the way of the future, the brick-and-mortar record industry is bound to become a sunset industry like public television networks.

But as a must-have high-quality producer and singer in the music industry, the more the merrier. More importantly, with more high-quality singers and the copyrights of their best-selling songs, then they can also grasp more initiative when deploying digital music in the future.

"The best way now is to buy an existing record label and gain direct access to its production team and sales network. Barry Weiss's words couldn't help but make Sid raise an eyebrow.

Barry Weiss couldn't help but hesitate when he saw Sid's expression, but he still spoke: "We've looked at quite a few medium-sized record labels, both North American and European. ”

Sid thought for a moment, then smiled slightly: "Then you have already collected the information." ”

"Yes. Barry Weiss nodded, then pulled out a few prepared documents.

"Okay, let's take a look. Sid nodded, and motioned for the few people next to him to distribute the information to everyone.

Sid opened it and looked through it, and it was full of record labels he had never heard of, including many local companies in Germany and France, as well as some companies born in North America.

Barry Weiss begins by explaining: "The companies we have here have their own strengths, some have more comprehensive music production capabilities, such as BIS Records in Sweden, and others have a wider range of sales channels, such as DG Records in Germany......"

While listening to Barry Weiss's explanation, Sid casually flipped through the information, and soon he found a question, "Barry (Weiss), I see that the appraisal prices of the record companies marked here are at least around $1 billion?" Sid asked with a raised brow.

Barry Weiss nodded, "Yes, because our goal is to have a sales network that can at least cover Europe, and preferably have some promotional strength." So the prices of these companies are not cheap. ”

"Yes, I see. Sid put his index finger to his lips in thought.

Spending a billion dollars to buy a company in a doomed industry is not a wise choice. Then Sid thought of another, more realistic question.

"Do we have that much money to make an acquisition?" said Sid, turning to Shirley (Sandberg).

Shirley Sandberg, who is obviously very good at business, did not look at any information, but replied directly: "So far, our group, the Fire Lion TV network is the most profitable, and the overall revenue of the three reality shows has reached $1.07 billion." ”

"Fire Lion Pictures is followed by three films so far, including box office share and videotape & The total revenue of DVDs and other peripherals is more than 400 million US dollars. ”

And Fire Lion Records surpassed $160 million in sales on CDs and singles. Of course, this is only the sales, the specific profit margin, and different businesses, are also very different. Shirley Sandberg gave a brief introduction.

"Well, the reality show is really profitable. Sid tapped his chin and muttered.

At present, the three businesses of TV, film and music are very obvious, and the record business with the shortest time can reach more than 100 million US dollars in a short period of time, which is quite amazing. However, compared to other businesses, it is still relatively weak.

However, Fire Lion Pictures is limited by the long cycle of the film industry and the fact that the company is still in the early stage of development. At present, the ability to produce and publicize is still relatively weak. Even in terms of production capacity, it cannot be compared with a medium-sized studio like DreamWorks, which can produce more than 10 films per year.