On May 10, 1960, a voice resounded through the world and shook the entire American people.

"As long as you are an American, you are eligible to participate in the American Idol Auditions! Show your talents, show your true self, and let the audience enjoy your singing voice! ”

ABC's promotional video was immediately broadcast on many stations, and even NBC's efforts to boycott it didn't keep anyone else from making money.

Soon, the ad attracted an active number of applicants from Americans, who were dressed in different attire and had different statuses near the registration points in each city.

The queue for registration was long, long, and even the local police were alarmed and had to send people to maintain law and order. For this entertainment phenomenon with the participation of the whole people, all major media have followed up and reported, and have repeatedly explained this phenomenon with experts.

Time Magazine, one of the world's two major publications, covered the entire cover with American fanaticism and violated convention, with a large article introducing: "Almost all Americans have signed up, and even those small places that are not very well-informed have rushed to many people. They are all attracted by this show, and they must know that the top ten contestants will be able to get rich overnight! ”

That's right, Alex took out a huge bonus in order to do a good job in this talent show. If it weren't for the difference in time, he even planned to let the first place win a million dollars, the second place win half a million dollars, and so on.

In the end, they were denied by Rudy: "Million dollars? It's crazy! ”

"If you really come up with a million dollars. It is estimated that people from all over the world will come over and ask to participate in the competition! Even if they are not Americans, they will try their best to smuggle them over and apply to become Americans! ”

"If there's a million dollars, I'll be part of it!"

"Alex, reduce it a little, at least you can't give such a huge bonus!"

In the end, Alex was so good that he lowered the prize money for first place to $200,000, then $100,000 for second place, $50,000 for third place, and the remaining seven places were all $30,000! In addition to the top 10, as long as the players who have made it to the semi-finals. You can get a $10,000 bonus!

That looks like a good fit. At least not so exaggerated in Rudy's eyes.

Even so, such bonuses are enough to drive people crazy. In terms of purchasing power, $200,000 is definitely more than $2 million in the 21st century. In the bank robbery cases of this era, more than $10,000 is considered a big case. If only I could grab a hundred thousand dollars and go back. Those robbers dreamed of dying of laughter.

Since the total prize money for the entire show also adds up to millions of dollars. So they advertised: "American Idol prize money is as high as one million dollars!" ”

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, not to mention that participating in this show is not to send people to death, when everyone hears that there is such a good thing. Hula all pounced on it all at once. Regardless of the people who don't know, they all follow the people next to them to sign up for the competition.

In New York! In Washington! In Chicago! ...... in Seattle Countless poor Americans wept with joy! Excited to go crazy, they rushed to tell each other: "ABC TV has launched a million grand show, as long as you sign up, you have a chance to win, everyone can participate!" ”

If this money is smashed, it will be like a bomb, tugging at the heartstrings of countless Americans.

When the news was released, almost all the top media outlets, including the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse, were involved in the follow-up coverage. Immediately afterwards, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Sun, the Chicago Tribune and other serial articles introduced this talent show, introduced the specific entry process of "American Idol", and the information of the judges.

Among the judges invited by ABC TV, only Elvis Presley is from Carpenter Records, and the rest are the famous hosts of ABC TV, and another is a respected musician.

These three judges have high popularity in their respective fields, and their participation has further driven the audience to pay attention to this show.

When an American was interviewed by reporters on the street, he said excitedly: "I also signed up for this show, although I didn't go for the prize money, I just wanted to see Elvis Presley, he is my idol!" ”

A black man also told reporters: "It's not for the sake of money, we don't have so much time to compete." At most, just watch the show and perform on stage? Mmmmmm......mm

Even the already famous singers are paying attention to this show and saying angrily: "It's so unfair that we professionals are banned from participating in this competition!" This will reduce the level of the program a lot, and you will know the Tao when you watch it! ”

"And will you watch the show?" The journalist asked.

"Huh? Why don't you look at it? It's nice to go and see those amateur competitions, so you can have fun! ”

All in all, not only people from all walks of life in the United States are paying attention to this draft competition, but even people abroad are paying attention. There were even British, French, and Germans who came to ask why they were not allowed to sign up.

Soon, when it was time for the first episode of American Idol, the major TV stations, outside of ABC TV, found that their program ratings were declining every minute. Especially NBC, which collided with ABC, found that the popular variety show they were broadcasting suddenly became a lot colder.

The show has one episode a week, and every time it airs, the ratings go up a lot. This has been the case for weeks, and the ratings have risen like a rocket.

The sensational effect of American Idol also excited the people of ABC TV and the record company, and these employees were already holding back their energy and devoting all their time and energy to their work. When you see the results of your work, the sense of accomplishment in your heart cannot be measured by money.

Many viewers switched to ABC TV halfway through, and they only glanced at the American Idol show, and they were attracted by this very new and exciting variety show, and never thought about changing the channel until the show was finished.

How can those gag variety shows compare to this kind of talent show from the 21st century, which is known as national entertainment.

Even if it appears in European and American countries where the entertainment industry is extremely developed, it can cause a long-lasting draft frenzy. Not to mention appearing in this era, the United States in the early sixties of the twentieth century is like China in the 21st century, a small copycat program can attract the attention of the people across the country.

After all, social development has not yet reached that height, and it is natural to be attracted by this type of entertainment program, in the case of that copycat talent show, the most fanatical to the relevant departments of the national government had to order a ban on broadcasting, so that super X fast X became a glorious term in the past.

There are many excuses for being banned, such as being vulgar, tasteless, canvassing to promote bad practices, and so on. In fact, the most important thing is that it has become a program that has swept the whole country, firmly occupying the eyes of more than one billion people, so that other TV stations have complained bitterly, and the last ones have to be blocked.

It can be seen from this that how influential this kind of program is, once the snowball is formed, even if other TV stations launch similar programs, there is no way to compete, as long as their own programs do not have directional errors, they will definitely be able to knock down the programs of other TV stations in one fell swoop.

In addition, Americans are keen on voting activities, and when they see that this show can be affected by voting, they naturally can't wait to pick up the phone and vote for their favorite singers.

Alex's copycat American idol show draws on many excellent settings, in which the power of the judges is there, but the audience can also choose their favorite singers. In this way, it is possible to balance the views of all parties well, and not let some judges' ideas deviate too far from the mainstream, resulting in the loss of audiences.

ABC TV, whose morale was greatly boosted, hurriedly took advantage of the victory to pursue and recover the lost ground in the ratings of other programs little by little. Advertisers naturally followed, and advertising revenue gradually returned to its original level.

Except for those who were promoted, the rest of the employees quickly settled down and worked honestly. Even if there was something else in mind, it has now vanished and become a thing of the past.

Of course, the success of the show means that their future is brighter, and the money is immeasurable. Unless they can find something else to do better, they have to work hard.

In fact, Alex's biggest concern is not the TV station and record company, but the CPT company, which is the largest source of income for the Carpenter family. CPT is responsible for a lot of business, as long as it involves the production of the electronics industry, the largest of which is radio, water heater, refrigerator, air conditioner and other electronic products, and the other is the most high-end technology artifact - computer!

Electronics account for only one-third of CPT's total revenue, while computers are a huge asset, with CPT making more than $1 billion in net profits from computers every year. Of course, the computers produced by CPT are not the personal computer PCs of later generations, but supercomputers, so the investment in research is also very high.

According to the information received by Alex, General Electric and IBM have joined forces, and it is not known how to join forces. Since the opponent's attack to dig into the wall was broken up by Alex, he has been standing still, and there seems to be no reaction.

For this situation, Alex is the most worried, without follow-up, it is impossible. It can only be said that the other party is brewing some conspiracy, so that the CPT company can plant a big fight. (To be continued......)