Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1686

Westeros Building, in a window restaurant in the top-level super mansion.

The time is seven in the morning.

Angourie Davis placed the tableware in person, and was checking to confirm that the host had arrived.

Simon was accompanied by the two Konavs sisters, and behind them were four waitresses, two of whom each held a little fellow.

Saying good morning, Angouri helped the host to open the seat, while inadvertently swept over the other two women, all of them looking radiant, which made her inexplicably envious.

In the blink of an eye, the housekeeper could feel that her male master was interested in her, but a certain little man always seemed to have a little more restraint towards the people around her, which made her annoyed. She probably understands that this is because she is worried that they will make an inch, but she has never been a woman who has an inch.

The three adults sat down, and the waitress was just about to arrange the two little guys on either side of the man as usual, but one of them stretched out her hand towards her mother.

After confirming with the host, the maid sent the child to the opposite side of Inas.

In fact, I hope that the child can get closer to his father. This is a rare opportunity. However, the little guy is relying on himself, and Inas does not show any impatience, and takes the child gently. On her legs, a certain little guy burrowed into her chest, and two chubby little hands were still grabbing at her restlessly.

After a little tug-of-war with the child, Inas let the little guy do what he did, and waited for the child to crawl into her arms with satisfaction, ooh, ah, then raised her head and looked towards Simon with a blushing face. A different kind of teasing smile: "I was thinking about cutting off the baby, but... heh, Simon, he really looks like you."

Maybe the waitresses in charge of taking care of the children didn't understand this ridicule, but Angouri understood it immediately. However, Angerry also knew that Inas's family-friendly jokes were out of place for a certain man.

Not ashamed to be angry, but annoyed for sure.

Among them, the housekeeper can probably understand the mentality, but of course, she will not casually reveal to any woman around her boss that she has always been very responsible.

Another waitress brought breakfast, and the housekeeper personally served it and helped the host to divide the meal. Sure enough, I heard a little man who seemed to be irrelevant but obviously very related: "You two, since you don't get along well on weekdays, just Don't live together, don't affect the children."

Although they are sisters, since both Inas and Melania have children, the signs of other signs are very obvious, as long as everyone around them can see it.

Simon's words came out, and the two sisters on the opposite side looked at each other immediately, and the smile on the corner of Inas' mouth disappeared in an instant.

In fact, living apart is of course nothing.

In their hearts, they don't want to be with each other anymore.

However, the two sisters are very clear that the two of them, together, are more attractive to men. Once separated, perhaps, who knows whether this man will be like now, at least every two Moon will come to visit them.

Simon didn't give the sister two chances to differentiate, and turned to the housekeeper beside him: "You are responsible for making arrangements."

Angerry nodded slightly.

On the surface, it is impeccable and submissive, but inside it is more or less gloating.

Annoyed...

Gee!

Based on the female housekeeper's understanding of her own boss, after the separation, considering the child's factors, of course he would not neglect the two girls, but, as the two sisters instinctively thought, they would indeed lose some kind of 'advantage of being one'. '.

Simon was too lazy to pay attention to the various twists and turns of the women around him, and started the day's work after breakfast.

Today deals primarily with Daenerys' East Coast TV division.

Entering October, the 2000 U.S. TV autumn season has basically spread out, and the ratings of major platforms, whether it is old dramas or new movies, have been confirmed.

The first is ABC.

This year, the public television network owned by Daenerys, is a small slump, and there is only one main project left, "American Idol".

And it's already the sixth season.

For reality TV, phenomenal works are often the peak around the third season, and the sixth season is usually a turning point. "American Idol" has not escaped this pattern. After hitting a peak of 38 million viewers in the previous fourth season, in the fifth season of last year, the data shrank slightly, but it also held the 35 million threshold.

The latest season, which started on September 13, still has 36 million viewers for the first episode. However, based on the average data of the previous 4 episodes, the average viewership of "American Idol" this season will be around 32 million. .

Maybe next year will turn to the 30 million threshold.

The average audience data of 30 million is still phenomenal, which means that "American Idol" is as easy as it used to be, and it can easily survive ten seasons. However, for the project itself, it is obvious that the peak moment is about to pass. .

Furthermore, the reason why this year is a trough is that, apart from the reality show "American Idol", ABC does not have a phenomenon-level drama that also supports the ratings.

ABC's previous TV series featured "Seinfeld", but unfortunately, after completing the ninth season two years ago, the actor was too tired of this project and did not renew his contract. The other two dramas produced by Daenerys are also phenomenal. This year is the seventh season of "Friends" and "Emergency Room Story". The broadcast rights are on NBC and CBS respectively. Neither party has Letting go means that ABC hasn't been able to cultivate other hit series to follow "Seinfeld" for a while.

Therefore, this year's trough situation has been created.

Having said that, Simon is not too worried about this.

The reason why ABC is like this is due to Daenerys' overall TV operation strategy. To put it simply, in recent years, Daenerys has been more inclined to develop the cable TV business. Of course, she will not ignore the wireless network. As fancy as ever.

At least Simon himself, if he wanted to, could easily give ABC a couple of phenomenal plays.

Simon didn't do this. On the one hand, he wanted the ABC team to play by themselves. After all, everything had to be done by the boss, and so many employees had to do. Simon, on the other hand, doesn't have enough energy after all.

However, let ABC play by itself, and if you want to make a phenomenal project, it depends more on luck.

In the past two years, luck is obviously not very good.

Simon is not in a hurry, he plans to take a look again, but if he can't, he will do it himself.

Mainly, the development of the cable business has given Daenerys, including Simon, enough confidence.

The key, of course, is the paid cable network DHO.

It has only been launched for two years. With its strong content advantages and promotion strength, DHO can almost be said to have exploded. Up to now, only in North America, DHO has 16 million subscribers, almost catching up with the last two years. The 18 million local data of the direct opponent H wave, which is desperately invested.

The current advantage of H-wave is only the huge overseas user base accumulated over the past ten years.

DHO has also begun to deploy overseas.

In general, in addition to the high-quality content resources accumulated over the years, the rapid expansion of DHO is inseparable from the two phenomenal TV series launched at the same time last year, which are naturally "The Sopranos" and "House of Cards".

Speaking of which, the two episodes of "The Sopranos" and "House of Cards" have been discussed almost overwhelmingly since their launch last year, and they are inseparable from the extensive marketing of Daenerys' TV, Internet and newspapers and other platforms. The quality of the series itself is absolutely impeccable.

Whether it is DHO or H wave, most of the content is still a movie.

However, compared to movies, phenomenal TV series with a wide range of topics can obviously attract the attention of more audiences, thereby triggering continuous subscription consumption by the public.

The former H wave, the rapid rise after 2000, a large number of movie content is the foundation, but several phenomenal TV series such as "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" have helped this paid cable network become famous and attract attention. No. After that, Netflix, as a streaming media giant, actually benefited from the same strategy.

This time, DHO is a cut off.

H wave of course also followed up, but unfortunately, whether it is a public television network or a paid cable network, if you want to create a phenomenon-level drama with a super hot topic, you need luck.

Obviously, this time, the H wave is not very lucky.

All in all, with the phenomenon-level topic effect caused by the two dramas, in just two years, at least in the local North American market, DHO will catch up with the H wave, which may be the next year.

After all, the market of pay TV is limited. When DHO achieves the overtake of H wave, then it is likely to be a rapid change. The H wave may not decline completely, after all, it is also backed by the huge General Electric Group, but it is difficult to say whether it will become second-tier like Showtime once did.

There is also Showtime, when Daenerys wanted to acquire this paid cable network as the basis for the development of a paid cable station, but it failed, so she decided to start DHO from scratch.

Now, the two powers are fighting for hegemony, according to various common practices, there is no doubt that the unlucky third is the third.

So is reality.

In the past two years, the most difficult thing in the paid cable field has been Viacom's Showtime TV station.

In other words, the situation for Viacom as a whole is not good.

The Viacom Group controlled by Summer Redstone, under the influence of Simon, the big butterfly, made several consecutive shots in this time and space, but failed to win a major studio after all.

Large studios that mainly produce content often play the role of locomotives in media groups.

In the absence of a strong locomotive, large capital groups under the background of media integration have a natural bias against small and medium-sized capital. Viacom, in recent years, has gone from bad to worse.

After all, just like Showtime, Redstone refused to sell, Daenerys established DHO herself, and the strength is not at the same level, the crushing competition, the impact on Showtime can be imagined, the simplest one is to broadcast movies for the same purpose. Lord, now, it is impossible for Showtime to get the copyright from Daenerys and MGM and Fox in the alliance, and Warner Bros. is obviously the same, which means that most of Hollywood has closed the door to Showtime.

Besides MTV, everyone can't get it, and naturally it won't let Viacom monopolize the music TV market in vain.

Whether it is Time Warner or Daenerys, they have been investing in related fields in recent years. Naturally, this not only divides up the MTV market, but also, whether it is Warner Records or Daenerys Records, as a global ranking The leading music giants, with their own content resources, naturally closed the door to MTV to a certain extent.

For reasons such as marketing, major record companies can still provide enough content to MTV, but it is conceivable that once MTV gradually loses the platform advantage accumulated over the years, it is only a matter of time before the door is completely closed.

This is business competition.

In addition to the rapidly rising DHO, Daenerys' achievements in the field of basic cable stations have also made other media giants envious.

Among them, there are two major TV stations, ESPN and USA.

After reaching an exclusive broadcast deal with the NFL with a huge sum of $9 billion four years ago, ESPN has been soaring in the face of various doubts inside and outside Daenerys, as its share of the cable platform continues to rise. , subscribers are still increasing at an annual rate of more than 20%, and currently there are 110 million subscribers in North America alone.

The solo broadcast effect is so remarkable that ESPN has gradually turned its attention to basketball, baseball and other fields.

What was once the so-called ESPN tax has now taken shape again.

Then there is USA, the basic cable network for female audiences. Last year, it completed a flagship "Desperate Housewives". However, this year, "Project Runway" turned out, plus the series of "Beautiful Wife" and "Desire". "City" and other popular, the attention of the TV station is no less than that of the major public television networks.

In North America, the number of subscribers of USA has also exceeded 100 million, and it has surpassed ESPN, reaching as many as 130 million.

At the same time, USA's share from limited operating platforms has also continued to rise. Compared with the initial 15 cents per user per month, this figure has now risen to 1.25 US dollars, becoming a rare share among many basic cable networks in the United States. Ratio of TV stations over $1.

This means that USA earns $160 million a month just from subscription sharing.

Not only that, the basic cable network, unlike the paid cable network, can also place advertisements, and the subscription share and advertising revenue are about 55%.

Daenerys's 2000 fiscal year financial report has basically been completed. Among them, only the USA TV network, the revenue in the past four quarters has reached 3.79 billion US dollars, and the annual net profit is 530 million US dollars.

Compared with the entire Daenerys, this data does not seem to be too conspicuous. However, to compare the same kind, well, except for ESPN, there is no other basic cable network that can be compared with the USA at the moment, only the public television network can be used. It can be regarded as CBS among the four major TV networks. It is currently under Westinghouse Electric and has gradually stepped out of the adjustment period of being acquired by Westinghouse. In the most recent fiscal year, CBS's annual net profit was only 590 million US dollars.

Although CBS ranks last among the four major public television networks, USA, with the strength of a cable network, can reach the same level of profit as a long-established public television network like CBS. You can imagine how outstanding this basic cable network is. .

And USA, after all, is only a part of Daenerys' huge TV business territory, and at the same time, the TV business is only a part of the many business territories of Daenerys Entertainment.

Daenerys Entertainment has confirmed that it will announce its full-year financial results for the fiscal year just past on October 19.

Even if the outside world already has various high or low expectations, in any case, if you only watch one USA TV station, there is no doubt that this super media giant dominates the same field.