Chapter 429: NBC

Tomorrow is October 20th, and it is also the time for Pokemon animation to be broadcast in the United States.

Although Boss Jia wants to be screened all over the world simultaneously, the problem is that each TV station has its own time point, and it is obviously inappropriate to change the animation before the last animation is broadcast, so Boss Jia can only set the start time of the world as much as possible in October.

Among them, Huaxia will start broadcasting earlier, and it will be broadcast on CCTV on October 12.

Then there is Fuso, and the Pokemon anime will be broadcast on October 18.

The United States is in third place, and it will be broadcast nationwide on October 20.

This time, Boss Jia and NBC TV in the United States reached a cooperation.

Note that it's NBC, not the NBA.

NBC's full name is the National Broadcasting Company of the United States, and it is also one of the three major commercial radio and television companies.

The company is headquartered in New York, and its parent company is the well-known General Electric.

At present, the company has direct TV stations in 7 cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Denver and Miami, and has 208 affiliated TV stations across the country, basically reaching the level of covering the whole country.

It is worth mentioning that the TV station policy of the United States and the TV station policy of Fusang are the same, all of them are private TV stations, and they are all local in nature, and there is no TV station that can cover the whole country.

So they, like Fusang, in addition to setting up a direct TV station in the main cities of the United States, will also take many local television stations in the United States as vassals.

Local broadcasters pay a portion of NBC's annual fees to receive the right to broadcast all of NBC's programming content for free, but they must also broadcast commercials on NBC programs.

These local TV stations can make profits through local TV fees, and there is also a part of their own advertising business.

All in all, the TV stations of the United States are like one large alliance after another, and the three major television stations of the United States have more than 200 affiliated local television stations each, and the two sides are like three countries, competing for ratings from each other.

As the third eldest of the Three Kingdoms, NBC has been a little sad recently, because NBC's third position in the United States is about to be unable to keep.

The offensive against NBC is the fourth-ranked news conglomerate in the country, Fox Broadcasting Company, and the boss behind the scenes is the Australian figure Murdoch, the old man who married an ugly Chinese wife.

Fox has been gaining momentum lately, with national ratings and the number of affiliated TV stations on the verge of reaching NBC's level.

And the reason why it can have such a rapid momentum, Fox has a total of two sharp weapons.

One is Fox's entertainment program, there are not too many entertainment programs in the United States, and the most famous program is just a talk show.

But the boss of Fox is a variety show, and has created a lot of entertainment programs, the most famous is a show named Morrie's Cuckold Show, as well as the rice version of Do Not Disturb, the rice country talent show, etc., these innovative variety shows make it refreshing for the people of the United States who can only see talk shows every day.

The other thing is animation.

It also made the president of NBC very helpless, a Fox animation actually beat them and had no power to fight back, whenever they entered the broadcast time of this animation, countless people would tune in on time and transfer to Fox TV to watch this animation.

And the ratings of this anime can hit new highs every year, such as last year in 1992, when it set a record of 30.92 million simultaneous views.

By the way, it is not popular to count the ratings in the United States, they count the highest number of simultaneous viewers, and any program that can have tens of millions of people watching at the same time can become a generation of legends.

And with the record of 30.92 million people watching at the same time, it is even more of a legendary legend, and it can basically stand in the top 20 positions in the history of the United States.

In fact, the peak viewership of this anime is 45.41 million people, which is definitely a rating record that can definitely rank in the top five.

This animation is the national animation "The Simpsons' Family" of the United States, which has been broadcast for 35 seasons in a row, and has been broadcast since 1989.

Of course, this animation has no popularity in China, because it is all based on the traditional culture of the Chinese people, as well as the animation of politics, for the Chinese people, there is no empathy at all.

NBC's TV series are housekeeping, and have produced films such as "Friends" (which is the American version of "Love Apartment", if "Love Apartment" could have been broadcast since 1993). ), as well as "ER Story" and other well-known American dramas, which are produced by NBC.

But in terms of animation, NBC is absolutely not good, originally NBC didn't care about this, animation can't work, animation can't work, "The Simpsons' Family" This god-like existence is not something that any animation can resist, and the animation that is played at the same time, NBC only has more than 8 million viewers at most.

So NBC wisely chose to give up the competition, and treated it as if its own TV station didn't broadcast animation.

But now, with Fox pressing forward step by step, it looks like they are about to snatch their third place, and NBC is also a little anxious, and they have decided to steal some limelight in animation, at least to suppress "The Simpsons".

But how difficult it is, NBC has tried three animations in succession, and all of them have less than 2 million viewers, which is less than a fraction of "The Simpsons' Family", so that NBC's program directors are planning to give up the stupid idea of challenging "The Simpsons' Family" on animation.

However, just about ten days ago, NBC's program director suddenly received a report from his manager, saying that he had found a super powerful animation, even if it can't compete with "The Simpsons' Family", but with a rating of about 5 million, it shouldn't be a big problem.

The program director became interested, and then asked, which country is this? Which company produced the animation?

Then the subordinate manager reported that it was an animation produced by Huaxia Dynasty Animation.

In this regard, the program director almost didn't choke to death with a sip of salt soda.

What the hell is this, when did Huaxia's animations come to the United States to play?

Now in China, I heard that it is still a country where three people wear a pair of pants together and rely on people as oxen to pull the plough and plough the fields? Such a country actually has the face to produce animation in the United States???

The program director scoffed, wanted to refuse on the spot, and even advised the interest of a glance.

Under the hand, this manager is very loyal and dutiful, he repeatedly reported to the director, and finally even swore to God that this is definitely an animation that can have 5 million ratings.

Well, for God's sake, the program director finally promised the manager to watch an episode of the anime and see how it looks.

"I only have 20 minutes, I'll just watch an episode, my daughter-in-law prepared apple pie for me at home, and I'm going to die if I don't go back!" Before watching this episode of the anime, the program director said to God.

Then I heard that the wife of the program director sent Apple Pie to the company, because the director didn't come home all night, and lied that he worked overtime all night in the company.

In the end, if his wife hadn't really found the program director in the company's screening room with a tired face but extremely high spirits, she would have really thought that her hair was green!