Hollywood Starts with Animation

May 26.

UPN Television Network.

At 9:00 this morning, Zhu Ke, the chairman of Jinshuguang Entertainment Group, and representatives of Time Warner and Columbia, the owners of the WB TV network, formally announced the full acquisition of the WB TV network by the UPN TV network under the witness of the media. Sign a sale contract.

That is to say, starting today, there will be two TV networks under the Jinshuguang Entertainment Group.

UPN TV network and WE TV network respectively!

UPN television network, which focuses on cable television networks (users pay for subscriptions);

Its future development goal will be to benchmark HBO TV network and make every effort to create high-cost, high-quality boutique TV series and movies.

And will cancel advertising to get more user subscriptions and better user experience.

WB TV network, focusing on public TV networks (similar to the major TV stations of the Great China Dynasty);

After the acquisition of the WB TV network, the variety shows originally owned by the UPN TV network, including "The Talent Show", "WWE Wrestling Entertainment" and other programs, will be moved to the public TV network of WE.

A clear program classification will enable the two TV networks under the Jinshuguang Entertainment Group to have more

The professionalism also has a stronger competitiveness!

From today, Jinshuguang Entertainment Group, which owns two TV networks, UPN and WB, is enough to rank in the top ten of American TV networks.

All the media reporters under the stage frantically pressed the shutter, trying to grab the headlines.

"Little man wins!"

"Jankford, what do you think the above thought?"

"The WB TV network jointly owned by Time Warner Group and Columbia Group has only been established for two years. Although it is not comparable to the major TV networks of ABC and NBC, its development momentum is not bad. Why sell it?"

"And, it was sold to the damned Zucker Wald?!"

In the crowd under the stage,

One man was outraged.

Full of anger!

His name is Sealed Lawson, a middle-level manager of Time Warner Group, and he is a firm anti-Zhu faction in Warner Group. You must know that last year's "Talent Show" program was born, but it took away a lot of viewership share, so that Sealed Lawson's bonus was more than half less than in previous years.

So Sealed Lawson hates Zucker to death!

"I agree with you, Lawson!"

Zhankford, who is also a member of Time Warner Group, is also indignant at the moment: "In the past two years, the group has set up dozens of signal towers in the east coast, west coast and central regions for the development of WB TV network. , costing more than 200 million US dollars! The shareholders of the board of directors of the group, if they say sell it, sell it now, let the people below us have no time to react.”

Sealed Lawson and Jankford of Warner Group are unhappy!

In fact, there are many people in the entire Time Warner Group who are dissatisfied with the decision of the board of directors of the group, especially the executives of the subsidiary Warner Pictures, the most dissatisfied!

The whole of Hollywood knows that there is a lot of filth between Warner Pictures and Wald Pictures!

The two sides do not say that they are eternal enemies, but they are definitely not friends!

Under such circumstances, no one expected that Time Warner Group, the parent company, would sell its WB TV network to Golden Dawn Entertainment Group, the parent company of Wald Pictures.

the day before signing the contract.

Kevin Feige, vice president of Wald Pictures, asked Zucker, "Boss, how did you do it?"

Bill McNick, the newly appointed president of Wald Pictures, also asked curiously: "It stands to reason that the Warner Group and the Columbia Group are both wealthy existences, they will never lack your money, just Selling the WB TV network that took two years of hard work to build."

hehe~

"What if I'm willing to sell ICQ shares to them?" Zucker asked rhetorically.

"Boss, if what you said is true, then they are really likely to let go." Kevin Feige said firmly.

"It's not just that, is it?" Bill McNick asked in disbelief.

Zucker laughed: "What about the ICQ shares in the hands of Amazon President Jeff Bezos?"

What the hell!

For a time, Bill and Kevin were shocked and stopped talking.

Zhu Ke sent a special person on the acquisition of the WB TV network. When they first discussed with the Time Warner Group, they immediately refused.

Well, the kind without hesitation.

There are even shareholders of Time Warner who scoffed and thought that Zucker was imagining it!

But!

When Zhu Ke's representatives offered to sell the ICQ shares in their hands and Bei Guangtou's hands, they couldn't calm down.

Everyone in the United States knows that Time Warner Group has the ambition to make a difference on the Internet. They have invested in 7 or 8 Internet companies before and after, but the results are not very good.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have merged with America Online, one of the Internet's hegemons, around 2000.

What are they for?

Isn't it just greedy for the high yield and high market value of the Internet!

Now, Zucker is almost handing delicious cakes to their lips, how can they refuse? Moreover, they also took the initiative to contact Sony Columbia, and together they sold the shares of WB to Zucker.

When the Colombian shareholders heard about this, they were not calm on the spot.

"Murdoch's News Corporation owns the shares of ICQ, so we have to take it too, otherwise doesn't it mean that we are lower than 20th Century Fox?"

A shareholder of Sony Columbia clapped in favor of the matter on the spot.

As a result, Zucker took over the WB TV network with ease and joy, completing an unimaginable transaction!

"Boss, that's the ICQ that is so powerful now, you are really willing to give up!"

Kevin Feige couldn't help feeling distressed for Zucker.

The WB television network is good. Since its establishment two years ago, it has built a public television network covering the entire United States, a new force in the field of public television.

But compared with ICQ, it is really far behind!

ICQ is currently a giant with as many as 200 million users around the world!

In the current Internet boom, many people want a share of ICQ but can't get it, but Zhu Ke sold the shares, which is completely incomprehensible.

"Ha ha!"

Of course Zucker wouldn't tell them that the dot-com bubble is not far away!

Besides, whether it is Zhu Ke or Bei Baldtou, they originally planned to gradually release the shares of ICQ. Now that they can sell it and exchange for the WB TV network they need, why not do it?

......

In the morning, after finalizing the acquisition contract of the WB public television network;

In the afternoon, Ms. Donna Langlei, on behalf of the "Talent Show" program team, formally signed the advertising contract of the "Talent Show" program with the cooperative merchants who had already reached the intention of placing advertisements.

The total price of the advertising contract is as high as 180 million US dollars!

Compared with the $120 million in advertising for the first season of the show last year, it is a full $60 million higher!

The $60 million higher is due to the popularity of Got Talent, but also because of the WB Public Television Network as a new broadcast platform.

After all, the advantages of public television in winning household ratings are not comparable to those of cable networks.

In the evening of the same day, major American media reported this series of news under the headline of "The New Emperor of Television, Zucker Wald".

The second update of "" was sent, and the minister continued to open the third update to make up for what he owed yesterday.