For Li Xiaole, the success of "Life Remote Control" can be said to be inevitable or accidental. Without Jobs' support, if the iPhone had been released now... Then the box office of "Life Remote Control" is definitely not likely to exceed 100 million. To put it bluntly, the result was a result of the convergence of many factors, including the right time, place, and people.

However, from the release of this movie, Li Xiaole still felt that the six major dominance over Hollywood made him feel suffocated. When the other party put in full force with a truly first-class blockbuster like "X-Men 3", he could only lose his armor...

This is actually very normal. Just like when American companies go to China, they have to nod and bow to China Film Group. The industries in each country are controlled by a large 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 depend on Sony. However, as a director, if he wants to have absolute voice in his movies, he cannot be bound by any force. This is what Spielberg and James Cameron have always done...

Li Xiaole himself also knew that he had no ten years to accumulate and become a Spielberger, and working hard was equivalent to giving his destiny to others, so now there is only one way before him... he is independent.

Over the past few years, as he struggled in the industry, his understanding of what industry has continued to deepen, which has made Li Xiaole have a more macro idea of ​​his increasingly plan.

The advantages he has are not only the memory of future films, the advantages in director films, and the direction of the climate. He has every hope of establishing his own film and television kingdom and competing with the six majors in all aspects, just like the future Lions Gate did.

Now he has his own film production company in the United States, backed by the powerful comic company, Marvel and the screenwriter's Republic, so he doesn't have to worry too much about the content of the work.

The real problem lies in the publicity channel... Li Xiaole understands that if you want to become a strong independent company, you need a lot of resources in the channel. Only when he has his own powerful media as a propaganda support can he be invincible. Otherwise, he will be abandoned by Sony at any time like Tom Cruise encountered at Paramount. He will always turn against Sony. He doesn't want to wait until that day is caught off guard.

At present, he has only publicity resources, which is the support for the mobile Internet in his ten-year plan by Jobs. When the iPhone is spread all over the world, his publicity and influence will increase in a geometric multiple. However, 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 a few years later, the mobile Internet will be truly mature, and everyone uses smartphones to surf the Internet and deal with various things in life. That is the day when his iPhone publicity is in full swing.

And even if he owns the mobile Internet resources of the iPhone, it will inevitably seem a bit thin if it depends on this alone. Think about it, such as the American Online behind Time Warner, which has television, the Internet, publishing, music, and even the Hilton Hotel... let alone the News Group behind Twentieth Century Fox.

The iPhone card alone is obviously unable to compete with these media giant groups that look at various fields. He also needs some media carriers 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 TV as his next target. This is natural, because not only because American dramas are a puzzle for his director's dream, but more importantly, TV is the most influential media in people's lives now.

You can not read newspapers, magazines, or video websites, but you always have to watch TV... Acquisition of a TV station is undoubtedly the best choice to expand your media influence.

And taking advantage of the current summer season, I definitely have nothing to do, so I can do this. Thinking of this, Li Xiaole also picked up the iPhone and called Lei Ting:

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

"All of it?" Lei Ting said coldly from the other end of the phone.

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

Although Lei Ting was surprised, she hung up the phone without saying anything. In just one day, all the information from American TV stations was transmitted to Li Xiaole's computer.

It surprised Li Xiaole again at her amazing efficiency. You must know... Li Xiaole spent three days just by classifying these huge data on TV stations...

In the past three days, he also found out that the general honest officials of the American television media are now. There are now 1,340 commercial TV stations in the United States, of which 172 are covered nationwide. Among these more than 100, almost the vast majority are controlled by six major companies.

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

Some of the remaining small TV stations with various business, news, and pornographic themes are there.

The information provided by Lei Ting is very detailed, including basic information from these TV stations, such as which TV programs have been produced and which TV series have been released; and the current situation information and analysis of these companies, which companies have launched a bad TV series with poor ratings, resulting in a large loss; which companies have made another deal, and are probably in a debt crisis at present; which companies have the intention to sell the company.

Li Xiaole held the mouse and scrolled the screen, carefully checking the information, and couldn't help but sigh. No wonder the Six Majors have been standing in Hollywood for nearly a hundred years. You can understand it by looking at these information. Six Majors simply control the public opinion voice in most of the United States... When their movies are released, they can carry out various preheating publicity through their own TV stations at any time, and they don't have to try their best to attract people's attention.

Even many companies on this list that seem to have nothing to do with the six major companies are actually controlled by them... It seems that it is not unreasonable that the popularity king Michael Jackson was forced into a desperate situation by them...

But the good news is that not every TV station under the six major groups is living a very comfortable life. A considerable number of them are losing money, and many are losing money in huge losses, all looking for buyers to prepare for the move.

"You can't need a cable TV station..." Li Xiaole thought softly in his heart, and manually removed all the cable TV stations. What he wanted was the influence of public opinion. Although cable TV stations benefited from income from paid users, their communication channels seemed too closed. Even if they were acquired, they would not have any influence in the short term.

There are many cable TV stations left, some of which only have a screening system and do not have a production department, and make a living by buying programs and playing them;

Some TV companies have their own production departments and are capable of producing programs and TV series, but their quality is average. They often cannot compete with large TV stations and cannot sell any playback rights. They can only play on their own TV stations. The ratings are extremely bleak and they cannot make ends meet.

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

Generally, TV stations tend to buy programs and TV series from independent production companies, which will be much less burdensome. Even if they have their own production department, it will be very simple.

Of course, Li Xiaole tends to acquire a TV station that has a mature production department. He has the resources for programs and TV series in his mind, and what he needs is an experienced production team to make them realistic.

He dragged his mouse and searched for information, but in the end he only found a suitable target-upn TV station

This upn TV station is one of the 39 TV stations under Sony and Viacom TV Group. It was founded in 1995. It was founded by Sony and Paramount on the premise of cooperation with the "Star Trek Voyager" series.

However, it seems that the two giants have cooperated together and have not brought any good results. Since Sony only wants to profit from the "Star Trek" series, and its own TV station CBS is at its peak, he has not invested much energy in this small TV station called Upn, and even quietly transferred the broadcast rights of "Star Trek Voyager" to CBS...

Paramount invested huge amounts of money in "Star Trek Voyager" and discovered Sony's little thoughts. In anger, he took the initiative to remove the TV series with good ratings to avoid damage to the brand of "Star Trek".

Under such complex circumstances, after 2000, the upn TV station, which grandma doesn't love and uncle doesn't love, has been declining in quality, both TV programs and TV series, resulting in a significant reduction in advertising revenue.

Although Sony has a strong TV network and installing an additional TV station is not a burden for them to operate, the annual loss of upn has reached US$ 1 million by supporting this large number of producers and producing third-rate TV series.
Chapter completed!