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For Li Xiaole, the success of "Life Remote Control" can be said to be an inevitability or an accident, if it were not for the support of Jobs, if the iPhone has been released now...... So now the box office of "Life Remote Control" is absolutely impossible to exceed 100 million, to put it bluntly, this result is the result of a convergence of many factors, the time, the place, and the people are all together.

But from the release of this movie, Li Xiaole still felt that the dominance of the six major Hollywood made him feel suffocated, and when the other party came with a truly first-class blockbuster like "X-Men 3", he could only lose his armor......

This is actually normal, just like American companies going to China to nod to China Film Group, each country's industry is controlled by a big dealer.

Anyone who wants to play this game needs to play with the dealer, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable, Li Xiaole can of course choose to let Lianmei as a production company attached to Sony, but as a director, if he wants to have an absolute say in his own movie, he can't be bound by any liliang, which is what Spielberg and James Cameron have always done......

Li Xiaole himself knows that he doesn't have ten years to accumulate and become Spielbergs, and hard work is equivalent to handing over his fate to others, so there is only one way in front of him now...... Be independent on your own.

In the past few years, as he has been in the industry, his understanding of what kind of industry has been deepened, which has made Li Xiaole have a more macro idea of his future planning.

He has the advantage of not only the memory of the future film, the advantage of directing the film, but also the grasp of the direction of the general climate, he has every hope to establish his own film and television kingdom, and compete with the Big Six in an all-round way, just like the future Lionsgate will do.

Now that he has his own film production company in the United States, backed by Marvel, a powerful comic book company, and the combination of Screenwriters' Republic, he doesn't have to worry too much about the content of his works.

The real problem lies in the channels of publicity...... Li Xiaole understands that if you want to become a strong independent company, you need a lot of resources on the channel, and only if he has his own strong media as a propaganda backing, will he be invincible, otherwise he will be like Tom Cruise in Paramount, abandoned by Sony at any time, he will always have the day when he will turn his face with Sony, and he doesn't want to wait until that day to be caught off guard.

At present, he has only publicity resources in his hands, that is, he gave Jobs the support of the mobile Internet in the ten years of jihua, and so on until the day when the iPhone spreads all over the world, then his publicity power and influence will increase geometrically, but at present, it seems that it will take time, the iPhone has just been released, and it will take a long time to eliminate the mobile phone industry now, at least after a few years, the mobile Internet will really mature, and everyone will use smartphones to access the Internet, Dealing with all kinds of things in life, that was the day when his iPhone propaganda was launched.

And even if he owns the mobile Internet resources of the iPhone, it is inevitable that it will be a little thin by relying on this alone, think about it, like AOL behind Time Warner, which has TV, Internet, publishing, music, and even a Hilton hotel... Not to mention the News Corp. behind Twentieth Century Fox.

Relying on the iPhone alone, it is obviously impossible to compete with these media giants in various fields, and he also needs some media carriers that are closer to ordinary people, such as video websites, magazines, newspapers, and TV stations......

Among the various media, Li Xiaole almost didn't have to think about it, and quickly chose the TV station as his next target, which is a matter of course, because not only because American dramas are a piece of the puzzle of his director's dream, but more importantly, TV is the most influential media in people's lives now.

You don't read newspapers, you don't read magazines, you don't read video sites, but you always have to watch TV...... The acquisition of a TV station is undoubtedly the most important choice to expand one's media influence.

And taking advantage of the fact that there must be nothing to do in the summer file now, it is just right to carry out this matter, thinking of this, Li Xiaole also picked up the iphone and called Lei Ting:

"Sister Tingting, please help me collect the information of all TV stations in the United States."

"All of them?" Lei Ting said coldly on the other end of the phone.

"Well, all of them." Li Xiaole replied with a smile.

Although Lei Ting was surprised, she hung up the phone without saying anything, and it only took a day for all the American TV materials to be transmitted to Li Xiaole's computer.

Let Li Xiaole be surprised by her amazing efficiency again, you know...... Just to classify the huge data of these TV stations, Li Xiaole spent three whole days......

In the past three days, he has also figured out the general purge of the current television media in the United States, and there are now 1,340 commercial television stations in the United States, of which 172 cover the whole country, and among these more than 100, almost the vast majority are controlled by the six major ones.

Among them, Sony Columbia, Viacom Paramount jointly controls 39 television stations, Fox Television Network controls 37 television stations, Warner's NBC owns 29 television stations, and Walt Disney Holdings' ABC owns 10 television stations......

There are a few small TV stations with commercial, news, and pornographic themes.

The information provided by Lei Ting is very detailed, including the basic information of these TV stations, such as which TV programs have been produced and which TV series have been released; There is also the current situation data and analysis of these companies, what company launched a bad TV series, and the ratings were dismal, resulting in a large loss; What company has done another bad deal, and it is estimated that it is currently in a debt crisis; What is the chairman of the company who has the will to sell the company.

Li Xiaole held the mouse and scrolled the screen, carefully checked this information, and couldn't help but sigh a little, no wonder the Big Six have stood in Hollywood for nearly a hundred years, just look at these materials to understand, the Big Six simply control most of the public opinion in the United States...... When their movies are released, they can carry out various warm-up promotions through their own TV stations at any time, and they don't have to try their best to attract people's attention.

Even many of the companies in this list that seem to have nothing to do with the Big Six are actually controlled by them...... It seems that it is not for nothing that Michael Jackson, the king of pop, has been cornered by them......

However, the good news is that not every TV station under the six major groups is doing well, and a considerable number of them are losing money, and many are losing money, and they are all looking for buyers to prepare for a sale.

"You can't have cable TV stations...... Li Xiaole said softly in his heart, manually removing those cable TV stations, what he wants is the influence of public opinion, although cable TV stations are profitable to earn income from paid users, but the communication channels are too closed, even if they are acquired, they will not have any influence in the short term.

There are more than 20 cable TV stations left, some of which only have a projection system and do not have a production department, and simply rely on buying programs to broadcast for a living;

Some TV companies have their own production departments and have the strength to produce programs and TV series, but the quality is average, they often can't compete with big TV stations, can't sell any broadcast rights, and can only broadcast in their own TV stations, and many times the ratings are extremely bleak, and they can't make ends meet.

In fact, it is not difficult for a TV station to establish its own production department, but an additional production department means that the company has many more departments and many more employees, and the production cost is not only a huge expenditure, but also the consumption of personnel and equipment is also very large.

Generally, TV stations are more inclined to buy programs and dramas from independent production companies, so the burden will be much smaller, and even if they have their own production department, it is very simple.

Li Xiaole is of course inclined to buy a TV station that has a mature production department itself, and he has the resources of programs and TV series in his head, and what he needs is an experienced production team to bring them to life.

He dragged the mouse and searched through the information, and finally found only one suitable target - UPN TV

This UPN TV station, one of the 39 TV stations owned by Sony, Viacom TV Group, was founded in 1995 by Sony and Paramount