The more the times develop, the greater the challenges faced by all walks of life.

Looking at the development history of Hollywood, its first stage was of course the period when several founders were founded. Chaplin, Hitchcock, Chaplin, Garbo and other movie stars made a brilliant debut. At that time, there was not even Audrey Hepburn. The world belonged to silent films and early audio films.

The second stage of Hollywood's development was from the post-World War II to the Reagan administration. Around 1948, Hollywood's vertical integration system entered its heyday, and the box office of theaters reached its historical high. Two-thirds of the country's population, namely 90 million people, frequently went to and from cinemas. The studio produced nearly 500 films every year, signed solid contracts with all the big stars, and hired more than 300,000 employees. The success was powerful.

But this situation quickly went downhill. With the acceleration of the suburbanization process after World War II, film companies that had no time to build more theaters naturally felt embarrassed. It was at this time that the rise of the television industry made broadcasters make a fortune and further suppressed the industrial system of the old Hollywood. The film industry in the 1960s and 1970s had a reason for the depression. Looking at the past twenty years, there are only a handful of classics that can be used.

In the early stages, several major Hollywood giants looked down on the TV industry, but the audience voted with their feet and slapped them hard. The improvement of manufacturing industry opened up a high-speed growth channel for the TV industry. The number of TVs owned by Americans increased rapidly from 170,000 in 1946 to more than 40 million in 1957, almost equivalent to the total number of all American families. By 1960, American residents had a total of 85 million TVs - an average of two per family.

With such a high penetration rate, it is no wonder that the number of movie viewings in the United States has dropped sharply from 31 million in 1945 to 19 million in 1950, and even 8 million in 1960. By the time the 1980s arrived, this data dropped to a sad level of 4.5 million.

Faced with this situation, Hollywood giants certainly won’t sit still and wait for death. Fortunately, those broadcasters do need the rich strength accumulated by Hollywood over the years, so cooperative operations have become a general trend.

After the introduction of the Paramount Act, the disintegration of the film industry played a role in promoting the development of the television industry. After the film industry moved towards the split of theaters and poor box office, the production of TV programs naturally became a new direction for Hollywood studios to break through, and this happened to quickly open up the bottleneck of program production that restricted the popularity of TVs. The two sides hit it off, and the acquisition operation immediately unfolded.

At present, the strongest one in the single-wheel broadcasting industry is NBC, namely NBC. This is a giant founded in 1926, headquartered in the Rockefeller Center in New York. It was acquired by General Electric in 1986 and has the ability to provide programs to more than 200 American TV stations.

CBS, founded in 1927, is also very powerful and is also established in New York. Considering that its audience with ABC TV station has always been mainly the elderly, and it has also been affectionately become the "elderly station" by everyone. From Alice's perspective, it is generally equivalent to "cctv8" and the housewife station, and it is the same nature as the "cctv8" and the housewife station!

As for ABC, although it is one of the three largest commercial broadcasting and television companies in the United States, it is independent of the first two and divides its headquarters into two. One is undoubtedly in Times Square in New York, but the other happens to be in Burbank, Los Angeles, not far from DreamWorks!

"It costs a lot of money to swallow ABC. Even if I can barely buy it, it will not be easy for DreamWorks to drive it." Alice told Lawrence: "And this will also touch on the changes in the entire Hollywood landscape. After all, ABC has been in a state of unemployment over the past few years, and no one else has spoken, but we swallowed it...tsk tsk."

Lawrence silently considered Alice's proposal. When it comes to development prospects, DreamWorks is of course not worried about it. Alice's average movie can always be kept popular every year, and it has sufficient reserve funding. Roger Lawrence's connections in Hollywood are not bad, so as long as it develops steadily, it will only be a matter of time before the company can win the "Eighth Big" - unless it is rash to die.

Cooperation between large film companies and radio and television is indeed the current mainstream trend, but as Alice mentioned, DreamWorks, a newcomer king, seized food from companies such as Paramount, Universal and Disney. Even if they can buy the controlling stake in ABC, they will probably be in trouble in the future. For example, the theater distribution of movies in the future, and even the joint shooting of individual movies, DreamWorks may be in a difficult position.

"So you took advantage of the stock market crash and bought a small broadcaster to use it as a stepping stone for DreamWorks."

Lawrence chuckled softly, and pointed out Alice's finger tapping on the stock market. This was not something any businessman could do, especially during the stock market crash, he used less than one-third of the price to win the target. This courage was not even something ordinary venture capitalists dared to play. After all, who can guarantee how long will the stock price fall back?

But now it is obvious that since the "87" stock market crash, Yu Lang has gradually faded, and the small TV network company has returned to its former grandeur. Calculate the time, since it has been in charge for so long, it is indeed time to make some moves.

Drinking black tea in a big gulp, Lawrence frowned and said, "By the way, I have forgotten for so long. What is the name of the TV station I intend to acquire?"

"amc, American Classic Movie Cable TV, was originally owned by Rainbow Media Holdings Group." Alice said calmly. At that time, Sophie happened to pass by the living room and water the potted plants on the windowsill.

"The establishment date of this company was October 1, 1984. That's right, Uncle Roger, it was China's National Day, so I'm very optimistic about it~" A bubble broke out in his mouth again, and Alice immediately smiled: "Two years ago, before the '87' stock market crash, it had just established a basic cable TV channel. In other words, viewers only need to pay a certain fee to the cable TV system service provider, and they can see the amc cable TV program without paying additional fees."

Lawrence is quite familiar with the TV industry and nodded with a smile: "When he was about to make great achievements, he suddenly suffered a stock market crash. I can completely think of what kind of depression would be like in Rainbow Media. Since it is a small company that has only been established for three years, just abandon it quickly. No wonder you can get a big advantage, but I know that until now, Rainbow Media is still dragging on several of its subsidiaries."

After investing a large amount of money, I suddenly encountered a trough, and I didn’t make a profit but lost a lot first. I could even think of the grand occasion of the board of directors’ vegetable market.

Alice smiled silently: "Amc uses cable TV systems, so it can directly allow people across the country to see its programs without having to set up their own infrastructure. As of this year, it has about 40 million order users, but the source of films is still a problem. So, as long as we go through the legal procedures and incorporate Amc into DreamWorks, we can immediately use the power of the film company to shoot TV series for it on a large scale."

The project that hit it off is a small development level of DreamWorks, and filming TV series while filming movies, can be fully affordable. Of course, the root of everything lies in the amount of money. Not to mention that after five years of continuous development, the company itself has already possessed this strength. If necessary, Alice, who made a fortune, can also directly serve as the producer. With her financial support, even if it is burning money like "Friends" for 10 million US dollars, what is it?

Well, of course, the pay is proportional to the income.

The merger matter is easy to handle. Just leave it to Lawrence himself. The TV station's own development can also be directly handed over to the TV station's people themselves. So the key issue is what TV series to launch, which is what Alice needs to think about personally.

Remember, it is April 1989 now.

So when selecting the material of TV series, what Alice needs to consider is the masterpiece that could be produced in the early 1990s. After all, a true classic is not only a script, but also a special effect that can be supported by enough support. It also requires the aesthetic cooperation of the audience in the entire market and the appropriate cooperation of the actors.

Without Keanu Levitra's "The Matrix" and Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible", is it still something that people can watch? Similarly, "24 Hours of Counter-Terrorism" and "Homeland Security" were filmed before 9/11, who would buy it?

At the same time, when shooting TV series in advance, we need to consider that the characters cannot be "too young", just like Alice must not film "Harry Potter" in 1997 and 1998. At this moment, Emma Watson and the others are still playing in low-level elementary school.

So, what are the protagonists of American dramas in the 1990s who are mainly middle-aged people? At the same time, it is best to meet Alice's inherent label?

I believe no one will believe that Alice Wang, a Silicon Valley girl, would write something like "The Desperate Housewife"?

"It's "X Files."

Saying Lawrence away and returning to her bedroom, Alice thought of this classic play without any pressure.

Well, f-force searches for the possibility of aliens, this kind of subject is quite loving~

No doubt, the entire Silicon Valley geeks will love her to death~

Moreover, the two starring actors were born in the 1960s. There was no pressure to shoot three years ago~

"Oh, why am I so genius~"

If you say you act, you will act. Someone then turned on the computer and was ready to start her typing career!

"Ah, why are you going to work again??"

Then, the door was opened just right, and Oscar, who had a bandage on his head, walked in with a look of depression.

"I said, sister, I'm injured by your brother! Don't sue me, you crossed half of the earth and went home. Visiting me is just by the way!"

Alice blinked her eyes and looked back at her brother.

Oh, hey, the guy is lonely?
Chapter completed!