Chapter 752

After waking up naturally after a good night's sleep, very comfortable in the big bed, and touching the wall at the head of the bed, Candace Bushnell realized that this was not the bedroom he was familiar with.

The door happened to be pushed open at this time, and she quickly retracted the bed, but was still noticed by the man who entered the door.

"Morning," Eric greeted the woman on the bed with a smile, placing the women's evening dress at the end of the bed and turning to draw the curtains.

Candace Bushnell followed Eric's figure to the window, watched him open the curtains, his bright eyes spilled into the bedroom, and finally came to his senses.

Oh my God, it turns out that all this is not a dream, I really slept with the little man in front of me, oh my God!

Thinking that she had slept with this man thirteen years younger than her, Candace Bushnell felt a burst of heat on her face, a little confused, a little shy, and a little faintly excited.

Seeing Eric coming over and sitting down on the chair next to the big bed, Candace Bushnell pulled the quilt to cover his face with some embarrassment, thought about it and felt a little inappropriate, and greeted him slowly: "Good morning...... Mr.Big。 ”

Eric looked at Candace Bushnell's girl-like reaction, nodded, and teased, "Oh, I see, this should be considered a compliment." ”

Candace Bushnell was stunned, reacted, and couldn't help but eat and laugh a few times, but he was embarrassed to respond.

Seeing that Candace Bushnell didn't speak, Eric didn't force it, and said, "Candace, I've already had your dress washed and ironed last night, huh...... It's like this, I have a meeting at nine o'clock. ”

Candace Bushnell poked his head out from under the covers and asked, "What time is it?"

Eric looked at his watch and said, "Eight-thirty, the car is already waiting for me below." ”

"Ah, it's so late, then I'm ......"

Candace Bushnell was about to sit up, but Eric reached out and pressed her shoulder, and said, "No, you can sleep a little longer, you can get up whenever you want, I'm just saying goodbye to you." ”

Last night, he didn't rest until more than two o'clock in the morning, although he had woken up, Candace Bushnell only felt weak, but he didn't want to get up at this time, and when he heard Eric's words, he didn't brace himself, he lay down and turned his body sideways, and he had some curiosity about Eric in his heart, and tentatively said, "Is it an important meeting?"

"If you've been following the news lately, you know that ESPN is about to sign a new contract with the National Football League," Eric explained, then laughing, "I almost forgot that women should be as interested in sports as men are in fashion, right?"

Candace Bushnell shook his head: "Of course not, I was a cheerleader on the school football team when I was a kid." ”

Eric knew that she was being polite, smiled, took out a card from his suit pocket and put it on the bedside table, and said, "I made some breakfast, you can eat some when you get up, if you don't like it, there are others in the refrigerator, the card is the driver's number, you can call this if you need a car later." ”

Candace Bushnell was a little disappointed when he saw that Eric didn't give him his personal business card, but he didn't take the initiative to ask for it, both parties knew very well that this was just an ordinary one-night stand, and she wouldn't be stupid enough to ask for anything further.

Seeing the woman nodding, Eric continued: "Also, about the heroine of "Lust City", I discussed it with Anne on the phone in the morning, since Liz is not very suitable, let's look for a new candidate, but it should be faster, not too long." ”

Candace Bushnell knew that since Eric had appointed Elizabeth Hurley as the heroine, the relationship between the two must have been unusual, and when he heard him, he asked, "What about Miss Hurley?"

"Then you don't have to worry about it, I'll arrange it," Eric said, getting up and saying, "Goodbye, then." ”

"Goodbye," Candace Bushnell reached out from under the covers, waving toward Eric.

When the door closed, Candace Bushnell turned around and lay on his back on the big bed, staring at the ceiling for a moment, feeling that he could no longer sleep, so he had to get up.

Groping around to find Neyi to put it on, she walked into Yumuro barefoot, and saw the brand-new toothbrush in a cup with a sticky note on the washstand, and her somewhat empty mood suddenly improved. Tearing off the sticky note and looking at it, it turned out that his handwriting was like this, thinking to himself, he subconsciously put the sticky note under his nose and sniffed it, and then secretly laughed at his nymphomaniac behavior. I put down the sticky notes and noticed the large bathtub in the bathroom, and I was immediately interested again.

Comfortably took a hot bath, wrapped in a bathrobe and went downstairs, there were a few simple breakfasts on the coffee table in the living room, as usual a very considerate note paper, next to her bag and mobile phone, walked over and turned on the mobile phone that was turned off last night, looked around, and saw a round table by the floor-to-ceiling window not far away, she picked up breakfast and walked over.

There was also a stack of newspapers on the table, and it was estimated that he should have eaten here in the morning and read the newspaper by the way.

Remembering the casual mention of ESPN's partnership with the National Football League when Eric left, Candace Bushnell, though he really had little interest in sports, curiously flipped through several newspapers of the day while eating breakfast.

The New York Times did a lot of work in the talks between ESPN and the National Football League (NFL).

Historically, ESPN's broadcast rights contracts for NFL games have been negotiated on an annual or season-by-season basis, but this time, ESPN is ambitious to sign an eight-year one-time deal with the NFL on a completely exclusive and exclusive contract, which will see ESPN receive exclusive rights to broadcast the NFL's weekly leagues.

Candace Bushnell doesn't know much about the various professional analyses in the newspaper article, but after seeing that the total contract amount will reach $9 billion, the amount of $9 billion has been out of her imagination, the eight-year contract is $9 billion, is the broadcast rights of NFL games really worth so much money, ESPN is a TV station owned by Fireflies, he won't lose money because of this, right?

Thinking wildly, the mobile phone rang suddenly, and as soon as she picked it up, a somewhat babbling female voice came out of the microphone.

“……”

Listening to the bombardment of his girlfriend's series of questions, Candace Bushnell had no intention of stopping, and Candace Bushnell had to take the initiative to interrupt the other party: "Okay, Sonia, I admit that I slept with him, so you don't have to be verbose." ”

There was another exclamation on the other side, Candace Bushnell reluctantly moved the earpiece away from his ear, waited for the other party to finish, and said: "Please, Sonia, I hope to find my own Mr. Big, but this is Mr. Biggest, a delicate and frail little woman like me will be crushed into powder if she pounces on it, this is just a one-night stand." ”

“……”

"I don't know why, but he brought it back in such a daze, and besides, I remember when you say that, the women with bright eyes at last night's party must have hated me to death, well, it seems that I have to be careful these days to avoid being calculated. ”

“……”

"Oh, now," Candace Bushnell heard another question from his girlfriend, and looked out of the glass window, and his vision fell on Central Park, which was shrouded in sunlight, and Central Park in late autumn did not have the vibrant greenery of summer, but the red maple and yellow leaves complemented each other, still giving people a colorful and dreamy feeling:" I'm sitting in the penthouse at the entrance to Sixth Avenue now, eating Mr. Biggest's own breakfast, and enjoying the view of Central Park and Uptown, and I have to say that the view is so amazing that I want to stay here and stay here, even if I live here as a maid. ”

“……”

"He, he's already gone to work, how can people be so laid-back like us little women...... What, don't even think about it, let you in, who knows what kind of mess you're going to make with this guy with no score, no-okay, never-right-no-okay. ”

“……”

The other side didn't know what to say, Candace Bushnell blushed and spat out, but the voice in the microphone was relentless.

"Ahh......h Ahh ”

……

Eric's home is less than two kilometers from the ABC headquarters on Sixty-seventh Street on the Upper West Side, and Candace Bushnell was at the ABC headquarters when he talked privately with his girlfriends.

An issue of great importance to ESPN and even Firefly's TV business will be discussed today regarding EPSN's $9 billion contract with the National Football League.

Of the hundreds of cable television stations that have emerged in the United States, ESPN is undoubtedly the most dazzling one, and since the late 80s, ESPN has become the number one television station for all sports fans in North America with a large number of game broadcast contracts in its hands. What's more, ESPN is also the only basic cable TV station with the highest broadcast cost among all TV stations in North America, and the average subscriber share exceeds one dollar, even CNN, which is also in the limelight under Turner Broadcasting, has an average subscriber subscription fee of only 68 cents, while the average subscriber subscription fee of all cable TV stations in North America is only 20 cents, which shows how powerful ESPN is.

In my memory, the market value of Disney, which annexed ABC, was only about $200 billion at its peak, but the market value of ESPN alone reached 50 billion, and after the decline of the public television network, ESPN's profits and revenues accounted for more than half of the total revenue of Disney's TV business.

Although he didn't pay much attention to sports in his previous life, Eric also remembers that after the new century, when various sports TV stations were vying to catch up, the main reason why EPSN was able to maintain its strong position in the industry was that it held a large number of monopoly sports event broadcast rights.

As the most popular sport in the United States, the NFL's football league broadcast rights are certainly within ESPN's control.

Eric didn't know the trajectory of EPSN until a few days ago, when the president of ESPN came up with an ambitious plan to monopolize the broadcast rights of the NFL league, and he understood how ESPN had risen strongly.

ESPN currently has about 90 million subscribers, an average subscription cost of $1.3, and a total of about $2 billion in annual broadcast rights and advertising revenue. Bernstein described the prospect very excitingly, but felt that the possibility of the implementation of the plan was very slim, and although he did not have much hope, he submitted the proposal to Katzenberg.

Katzenberg is also very sharp-eyed, of course, he also sees the huge potential of this plan, but he also sees the greater risk in the plan, once the contract is won with $9 billion, but the plan fails, the consequences will be unimaginable, and this plan has another disadvantage, because if you want to monopolize all the game broadcasters, the price of $9 billion has exceeded the original broadcast rights price by 50% Once ESPN's revenue growth does not meet expectations, not to mention the gradually increasing copyright licensing price of other prices, just paying the NFL's $1.125 billion annual copyright fee is enough to slowly drag ESPN down.

In the end, Katzenberg was unable to make a decision, so he had to submit the proposal to Eric himself.

Katzenberg is also very sharp-eyed, of course, he also sees the huge potential of this plan, but he also sees the greater risk in the plan, once the contract is won with $9 billion, but the plan fails, the consequences will be unimaginable, and this plan has another disadvantage, because if you want to monopolize all the game broadcasters, the price of $9 billion has exceeded the original broadcast rights price by 50% Once ESPN's revenue growth does not meet expectations, not to mention the gradually increasing copyright licensing price of other prices, just paying the NFL's $1.125 billion annual copyright fee is enough to slowly drag ESPN down.

In the end, Katzenberg was unable to make a decision, so he had to submit the proposal to Eric himself. (To be continued.) )