The elevator where Jeremy Dallock was sitting slowly rising.

Looking ahead, the elevator door was as bright as a mirror, which could reflect his expression at this moment.

Nervous, nervous, uneasy, and pretending to be calm.

He held a document tightly in his hand, which was the request of his immediate boss.

With a tingling sound, the elevator arrived.

His heart also got gripped.

Walk out of the elevator and into a spacious and bright office.

There are signs hanging at the gates of all offices in the entire building, but this one is not.

But this office is the largest and the best.

Outside the office gate is a front desk secretary.

"Hello, Mr. Dallock"

The front desk secretary saw Jeremy O Dallock and stood up, "He is already waiting for you."

The secretary walked to the office door, knocked lightly for a few times, and then she opened the door until a sound came from inside.

"James, Mr. Dallock is here"

There is a glasses guy who is about forty years old and looks very gentle and gentle.

He is the youngest son of News Corp Chairman Murdoch, James Murdoch, former chairman of the board of directors of Sky Television.

At the beginning of this year, he was forced to apologize and resign due to the eavesdropping incident, but he was still in charge of Sky TV's affairs.

Everyone also knows that once Old Murdoch goes, the successor is this prince.

"Oh, Jeremy, here it's here"

James Murdoch was playing golf in the office. When he saw Jeremy Dallock coming in, he just made a hole and put it away and walked over with a smile.

"James" Jeremy Dallock greeted him tremblingly.

He knew that the rumored number one heir to the Murdoch family actually had a very bad relationship with his father.

He even didn't like others to call him Mr. Murdoch, but liked others to call him James.

However, no one will deny the future of this prince.

That's taking over the entire huge news group

Since he took over Sky TV, everyone has concluded that all this has been decided.

Because Sky TV is News Corporation's core business

"He called early in the morning to ask, what was going on in Southampton?" James asked as soon as he sat down.

Only those who often come into contact with James can understand that he refers to Old Murdoch.

Chairman of News Corporation, a world-renowned media tycoon

In fact, Old Murdoch calls to ask about Sky TV almost every day, because this is too important for News Corp.

It is so important that he calls at least one phone every day to ask about the company's situation, and every major decision must be implemented with his consent.

In Jeremy Dallock's view, James Murdoch was lucky.

His predecessor, Donnie, created a very good situation for him. He took advantage of the exclusive operation of Premier League broadcast rights and won seven million users, each user paying an annual fee of 400 pounds per year, and the income is nearly 3 billion pounds.

What James needs to do after he comes to power is very simple, and it is enough to maintain this core business.

As Murdoch's son, although everyone knows that James and Murdoch have a bad relationship, he is at least not a playboy who accomplished nothing, so he quickly took advantage of the influence of Murdoch to settle the position in the company.

But all of this is still inseparable from the guidance and supervision of Old Murdoch behind the scenes.

Jeremy Dallock is also used to having such conversations with James.

They have done this in the past, and they have not known how many times.

"This is the information I collected in the morning." Jeremy Dallock handed over the documents in his hand.

James took it and flipped it open, from top to bottom, page by page, looking very carefully and seriously.

This is also his usual style of doing things.

I believe it is also what Old Murdoch values ​​him the most

"So, is Southampton planning to coerce the Premier League to compromise?" James smiled slightly.

This is interesting

In the past so many years, I have never seen such a powerful promotion

Jeremy O Dallock smiled bitterly, "Do they have such courage?"

"Haha, Jeremy, never underestimate other people's ambitions"

James smiled and pointed to one of the paragraphs in the report, "Look at this."

Jeremy Dallock immediately took it, which was Yang Huan's speech in an interview with the media at the hotel gate.

"This is a diplomatic rhetoric. In-depth exchange of opinions means that the two sides are quarreling very hard, but each has their own thoughts and failed to reach an agreement. He also affirmed the role of the roundtable and the Premier League, which is to show an attitude."

Jeremy Dallock immediately raised his head and looked at the prince.

"My bottom line has been opened. If you have sincerity, we can talk again."

Speaking of this, James couldn't help laughing, "This Yang Huan is really interesting. The Chinese people like to talk like this invisible."

Jeremy Dallock suddenly realized this time and clapped his hands hard, "Yes, I was still wondering before."

"What's up?"

"Yesterday afternoon, Southampton CEO Peter Neon spoke to me about the renovation of the St. Mary's Stadium broadcasting system and called the engineering department to urge people, saying that construction must start today."

James nodded constantly, "That's right. If you really want to withdraw from the competition, what else can you change?"

When she said this, James couldn't help but frown again, as if he was thinking of something.

When Jeremy Dallock left the report, stood up and said goodbye, James Murdoch picked up the cell phone on the desktop and made a phone call.

"Daddy"

There is no doubt that across the phone is the world-famous media tycoon, News Corp. Chairman Murdoch

This is a powerful person who can cause a major earthquake in the field of news and media.

James Murdoch talked about his discovery on the phone.

The conversation between the father and son is very interesting.

The English they speak has a very complex tone.

It has a bit of Australian accent, but it has a Boston accent that is obviously American English and has a bit of Indian flavor.

The difference is that James is also mixed with some Hong Kong accents.

Murdoch, who is nearly 80 years old, has been silently controlling News Corporation behind the scenes and has no intention of retirement yet.

When he heard about this from his young son, he couldn't help but smile on the other side of the phone.

"What a cunning little devil"

James couldn't help but frown. It didn't sound derogatory, but praise.

"The reason why England's top teams had the courage to leave the First Division and set up the Premier League was because our Sky TV station supported it and even fueled the fire. At that time, we urgently needed to gain a foothold in the UK with the help of football."

James is very clear about this history.

If News Corp's core business is Sky TV, then Sky TV's core business is the Premier League.

Even though Sky TV has made countless efforts over the past few years, it has not been able to get rid of its dependence on the Premier League.

Who made Britain almost always regard football as a belief?

Football is no longer just a sport in the UK, it has been integrated into all areas of British society and cannot be separated.

"We are interdependent and indispensable to the Premier League, but in the past twenty years since the establishment of the Premier League, the broadcast fee has been rising steadily. The single broadcast fee has increased rapidly from 630,000 pounds from 1992 to 1997 to 4.3 million pounds, which is nearly seven times."

James listened silently, that in this regard, he was not as clear as his father.

Because my father is the witness and even the creator of all this.

"For us, although this has the benefit of scaring away potential competitors and building copyright barriers, it is also constantly increasing our operating costs. As early as 2003, we already had enough understanding of this."

The first Premier League broadcast contract was from 1992 to 1997, and the broadcast fee for a single game was 630,000 pounds.

It is this contract that established Sky TV's leading position in the UK's paid TV field.

When the second contract was reached, from 1997 to 2001, with the rapid growth of Sky TV, the single broadcast fee of the Premier League was quickly increased to 2.79 million pounds.

The third contract from 2001 to 2004 was once again increased to 3.64 million pounds.

In 2003, the fourth Premier League broadcast contract was started, which was the first from 2004 to 2007. Sky TV realized that this could not continue, and the EU's antitrust forced the Premier League broadcast rights to be divided.

In the fourth contract, the number of live broadcasts in the Premier League in a single season quickly increased from 106 games to 138 games, and it was divided into three packages in total, but the single broadcast fee dropped rapidly, only 2.47 million pounds.
To be continued...