Chapter 573 The Dispute over the Right to Broadcast
"Jiyao, you haven't announced this matter yet, have you?" King asked.
"Not yet, but negotiations are about to begin, and everyone's intentions are clear."
King shook his head, "So is it Tianlong Entertainment or other companies that are playing globally?" ”
"I brought it up," Liu Jiyao said, "but their interest is very high, and they all agree in principle, I don't think there's a problem, right?" ”
"Jiyao, our entertainment is too limited to the Asian region, and Tianlong Entertainment is the natural boss in the Asian region, so you don't need to conduct any special negotiations, as long as you show up your requirements, you can achieve your goal. But these European and American fellows have always regarded us as barbarians, and have always felt that the Orientals can fool around at will, and that what they have agreed to verbally now may not be fulfilled in the end. Japan and South Korea like to follow the trend the most, if Europe and the United States say that they want a unified global simulcast, then how can they have a way to do this, but if Europe and the United States talk back, I'm afraid it will change. ”
Liu Jiyao really didn't think about this problem, as the crown prince of the black gold family, no one dared to set him up before the negotiation when conducting business negotiations, but it was not surprising that those Americans and Europeans would do that, "It is indeed to restrict them, so what should be done?" ”
"Then that's my job," King laughs, "and I'm going to take full responsibility for this business negotiation." ”
Liu Jiyao wished he said this, saying this would be equivalent to a closer integration between King and himself, where is the possibility of disagreeing?
Although King is the star of this TV series, the ownership of this TV series belongs to Tianlong Entertainment, so it would be good for him to have a seat during the negotiation, and now he is placed in the deputy position, which is already considered an exceptional treatment. There are many TV stations from all over the world, and there are three or four competitors in the same place, all hoping to win the show through guò or something, because they know that in China, it may be much more important to talk about relationship than about strength, and everyone is staring at King.
However, although sitting in this position, waiting for Liu Jiyao to talk, this made the visitor feel a little regretful.
"In fact, we don't plan to make any huge profits from this drama," he finally spoke up when everyone thought he would no longer be able to speak, "But since everyone has agreed to a request from Tianlong Entertainment, then we will use this request as a benchmark to choose the right TV station, and this benchmark is the broadcast time." Tianlong Entertainment's request for global unified broadcasting is to follow China's broadcast schedule, starting from August, five episodes per week, a total of 16 weeks, Tianlong Entertainment will promise not to change the broadcast time, and the TV stations that buy the broadcast rights must also broadcast according to such a time, I think everyone has no problem, right? ”
"Oh, King, that's not going to work." The assistant director of British TV said, "The British TV series is broadcast twice a week, and it is impossible to schedule five episodes a week, but we can promise that the premiere will be synchronized, and I think the impact will be enough, what do you think?" ”
"Not good enough, Mr. Smith," King looked at his badge, "the concept of global simultaneous broadcast is different from global simultaneous premiere, and we have synthesized the opinions of most people and proposed global simultaneous broadcast instead of premiere, which is the starting point. ”
"What?! King, I heard you right, did I? The assistant director shouted, "You should know that the current source of the film is a buyer's market, not a seller's, and the conditions we gave are already very generous." ”
"Well, but I didn't deliberately sell it to the UK," King laughed, "We also have another feature of the overseas rights to this TV series: what we sell is a one-time copyright, which means that the TV station only buys the one-time broadcast rights, and has no other rights." ”
"What?! Can we only show it once? The whole venue was boiling, "What does a one-time copy mean?" It's not just the TV stations that limit it, it's the audience. ”
"It does include the audience," King said quietly, "and then we'll release a CD version of the TV series, which will be sold by the stations that have bought the one-time rights." ”
"Oh!" At this time, some people applauded, "This is a good way, I like it, I personally support it, and at the same time, on behalf of NDK TV in the United States, I expressed my intention to buy this one-time broadcast rights." ”
"NDK?" Smith of the British company said, "Are you so confident in this film? 5 days a week for 16 weeks, unless this is a miracle movie, no one in the United States, not even us in the United Kingdom, will hold on. ”
"Faith? If I don't have such confidence in Brother Zhenwu, who else will I have this confidence in? If British Television is not going to buy it, I can buy it on behalf of Scottish Television. ”
King looked at the man, "It's Mr. Moore, I really didn't expect you to come." ”
At this time, the representatives of the TV station in the audience were divided into two groups, one of them were dissatisfied with Tianlong Entertainment's decision, and the other part felt that this novel promotion method could be tried.
"Of course I'll come, I really admire Brother Zhenwu's martial arts, and they can all be regarded as fans of Brother Zhenwu, so I support everything that Brother Zhenwu shoots related to martial arts, and I want to insist on just one thing, that is, the exclusive broadcast rights of the United States."
"But we're against it," one of the participants stood up, it was the bar manager next to Gianna, "King, I'm here on behalf of John Smith to buy Chuhan's exclusive rights to broadcast in the United States, Mr. More, if I'm not mistaken, you're not a TV station, when will you be able to represent NDK?" ”
Moore took out a stack of texts from his arms, "This morning, we just bought NDK TV, and to be honest, I bought it just to broadcast this TV series." ”
When he said this, everyone present was a little dizzy, they are not all Americans, but they know the business environment in the United States very well. Who is Mohr? The heir of the Kevin Tutt family, the world's arms giant, has indeed not been involved in the film and television industry before, but this does not mean that he will not be able to achieve good results if he suddenly enters the film and television industry, the power behind him is too strong. However, just because you want to broadcast this TV series, you go to buy a TV station? The Kevin Tutts are too rich, right?
As for John Smith, it is also a big theater company now, and it is said that it has also cooperated with King's DES company to fight for this year's Oscars. And the Smith of the British TV station, when he heard that it was Moore from the United States, immediately fell silent, a British TV station may be nothing to a world-class top giant, oh, didn't you just say it? Kevin Tutt just bought NDK TV.
"So King will definitely sell us the broadcasting rights in the United States to NDK, right?" "As far as I know, there has been a rift in the collaboration between DES and John Smith, and they will part ways after the Oscars, right?" He suddenly broke a shocking revelation that surprised the others even more.
"There may be a little misunderstanding," said the bar manager, "but it shouldn't affect the cooperation." He didn't have enough confidence to say this, and I don't know how King would react.
"Maybe you can consider not having any exclusive broadcasting rights, just independent broadcasting rights, right?" Liu Jiyao made a round, but King immediately said, "Forget it, I decided to give the exclusive broadcast rights to John Smith this time, so it was decided, right?" ”
Everyone's eyes were focused on Mohr, but the latter didn't look unhappy at all, just applauded, "Then let's congratulate you on the success of your cooperation, right?" "It doesn't seem to matter.
(Chu Han's TV series is about to be broadcast globally, but the concept of world premiere and global simulcast is different, many European and American TV stations are looking forward to the world premiere, but King's insistence is a global simulcast.) )