Westeros Towers, in a window restaurant on the top floor of a super mansion.
The time is seven o'clock in the morning.
Angora Davis personally placed the tableware and was checking to confirm that the host had arrived.
Simon was accompanied by the two Conavus sisters, and behind him were four maids, two of whom each held a little guy.
Saying good morning, Angre helped the male host pull out the seat while inadvertently glancing at the other two women. They both looked radiant, which made her inexplicably envious.
In the blink of an eye, these years have passed, and the housekeeper can feel that her male master is interested in her. However, this certain little man always seems to have a little more restraint towards the people around him, which makes her angry. She probably understands that she is worried that they will push themselves too far, but she has never been a woman who pushes herself too far.
The three adults sat down, and when the waitress was about to place the two little ones on either side of the man as usual, one of them moaned and stretched out his hand towards his mother.
After confirming with the male host, the maid sent the child to Inas on the opposite side.
In fact, she hopes that the child can be closer to her father. This is a rare opportunity. However, when the little guy turned to her, Inas did not show any impatience at all, and took the child gently. She was originally going to put the little guy down. On her legs, a little one was digging towards her chest, with two chubby little hands still grabbing restlessly.
After a brief tug-of-war with the child, Inas let the little guy do what he wanted. When the child was contentedly sobbing in her arms, she raised her head and looked at Simon with a slightly red face, with some disapproval. With such a teasing smile: "I originally considered cutting off the baby, but hey, Simon, he is really like you."
Perhaps the maids responsible for taking care of the children didn't understand this joke, but Angeli understood it immediately. However, Angre also knew that Inas's little teasing, like a close family member, was inappropriate for a certain man.
It won't make you angry, but it will definitely make you angry.
The housekeeper can probably understand the mentality, but of course, she won't reveal it to any woman around her boss. She has always been very responsible.
Another maid served breakfast, and the housekeeper served it herself, helping the host share the meal. Sure enough, she heard the seemingly unrelated but obviously very related words of a certain young man: "Since you two don't get along well on weekdays, let's Don’t live together, don’t affect the children.”
Although they are biological sisters, since Inas and Melania have had children, the signs of estrangement have been very obvious, and anyone around them can see it.
When Simon said these words, the two sisters opposite him immediately looked at each other, and the smile on the corner of Inas's mouth disappeared in an instant.
In fact, it's certainly okay to live separately.
In their hearts, neither of them wants to stay with the other person anymore.
However, both sisters know very well that together, they are more attractive to men. Once they are separated, maybe, who knows whether this man will still be like this, at least every two Yue will come to visit them.
Simon didn't give the two sisters a chance to argue. He turned to the housekeeper beside him and said, "You are responsible for making arrangements."
Angre nodded slightly.
On the surface, he is impeccably respectful, but on the inside, he is more or less gloating.
Are you annoyed
Tsk!
Based on the housekeeper's understanding of her boss, after separation and considering the child, he would certainly not neglect the two women. However, as the two sisters instinctively thought, they would indeed lose some of the advantages of becoming one. '.
Simon was too lazy to pay attention to the various thoughts of the women around him, and started his day's work after breakfast.
Today is mostly dealing with Daenerys' East Coast TV side of things.
Entering October, the 2000 American TV autumn season has basically begun, and the ratings of all major platforms, whether it is old dramas or new movies, have been confirmed.
First is abc.
The public television network owned by Daenerys has experienced a slight trough this year, with only one main program left, American Idol.
And it’s already the sixth season.
For reality shows, the peak of a phenomenal work is usually around the third season, and the sixth season is usually a turning point. American Idol has not escaped this pattern. After reaching a peak of 38 million average viewers in the previous fourth season, the data shrank slightly in last year's fifth season, but it still maintained the 35 million threshold.
The latest season, which was launched on September 13, still had 36 million viewers for the first episode. However, based on the average data from the previous four episodes, the average number of viewers for this season of American Idol will be around 32 million.
Maybe next year we will move to the 30 million threshold.
The average audience rating of 30 million is, of course, still phenomenal, which means that American Idol can easily last ten seasons as it once did. However, for the project itself, it is obvious that the peak moment is about to pass.
Furthermore, the main reason why this year is a low point is that, apart from the reality show American Idol, ABC does not have a phenomenal series that also supports ratings.
ABC's previous main TV series was Seinfeld. Unfortunately, after completing the ninth season two years ago, the leading actor was too tired of the project and did not renew his contract. The other two dramas produced by Daenerys are also phenomenal. This year, they are both Friends and ER in Season 7. The broadcast rights are with NBC and CBS respectively. Neither party has any intention of letting go. Furthermore, ABC has not been able to produce other hit series to succeed Seinfeld for a while.
This has created a low point this year.
Having said that, Simon wasn't 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, but after all, she has not As fancy as ever.
At least Simon himself, if he wanted to, could easily provide ABC with several phenomenal dramas.
Simon didn't do this. On the one hand, he wanted ABC's team to perform on their own. After all, everything had to be done by the boss and what so many employees had to do. Simon, on the other hand, didn’t have enough energy after all.
However, if abc is allowed to develop on its own, if it wants to create a phenomenal project, it depends more on luck.
In the past two years, my luck has obviously been bad.
Simon is not in a hurry and plans to take another look. If it doesn't work, he will take action himself.
Mainly, the development of the cable business has given Daenerys, including Simon, enough confidence to go up and down.
The key is, of course, the paid cable network dho.
Only two years after its launch, dho has almost exploded with its strong content advantages and promotion capabilities. As of now, dho already has 16 million subscribers in North America alone, almost catching up with the number of subscribers in the past two years. In the desperate investment of direct rival hbo's 18 million local data.
HBO's current advantage is the huge overseas user base it has accumulated over the past ten years since it started broadcasting.
dho has also begun to expand overseas.
In general, in addition to its high-quality content resources accumulated over the years, dho's rapid expansion 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 Sopranos and House of Cards dramas have been almost overwhelmingly discussed since their launch last year, which is inseparable from Daenerys’ extensive marketing across all platforms including TV, the Internet, and newspapers. However, the two dramas, The quality itself is absolutely impeccable.
Whether it's DHO or HBO, most of the content is still movies.
However, compared to movies, phenomenal TV series with a wide range of hot topics can obviously attract more viewers' attention, thereby triggering the public's continuous subscription consumption.
In the past, HBO's rapid rise after 2000 was based on a large number of movie content, but several phenomenal TV series such as The Sopranos and Sex and the City that helped this premium cable network become famous and attract attention were indispensable. Later, Netflix, as a streaming media giant, actually benefited from the same strategy.
This time, dho was able to cut him off.
Of course, HBO has also followed up, but unfortunately, whether it is a public television network or a premium cable network, if you want to create a phenomenon-level drama with a hot topic, you need an element of luck.
Obviously, this time, HBO's luck is not very good.
All in all, with the phenomenal topical effect caused by the two dramas, in just two years, at least in the North American local market, DHO has caught up with HBO, and it may be within the next year.
After all, the market for pay TV is limited. When DHO overtakes HBO, there will likely be rapid decline and decline. HBO may not completely decline. After all, it is backed by the huge General Electric Group. However, it is difficult to say whether it will become a second-tier company like Showtime.
There is also Showtime. Daenerys originally wanted to acquire this premium cable network as a basis for developing into a premium cable station, but failed, so she decided to start DHO from scratch.
Now, when two powers compete for hegemony, according to various common practices, there is no doubt that the unlucky one is the third child.
So is reality.
In the past two years, Showtime, a TV station owned by Viacom, has had the worst time in the premium cable industry.
In other words, the entire Viacom situation is not good.
The Viacom Group controlled by Summer Redstone, under the influence of Simon, the big butterfly, made several attempts in this time and space, but ultimately failed to seize a major studio.
Large studios that mainly produce content often play the role of locomotives in media groups.
Without a powerful locomotive, large capital groups under the background of media integration have a natural effect on small and medium-sized capital. The result is that although they hold MTV, a high-quality TV asset that is very coveted by all media giants, the entire Viacom has been going from bad to worse in recent years.
After all, just like Showtime, Redstone refused to sell it, and Daenerys founded DHO on her own, and the strength was not at the same level at all. The impact of crushing competition on Showtime can be imagined. The simplest one is that it also broadcasts movies for Lord, now, it is impossible for Showtime to obtain the copyright from Daenerys and its allies MGM and Fox. The same is obviously true for Warner Brothers. This means that most of Hollywood has closed the door to Showtime.
Let’s talk about MTV. Everyone can’t get it, so Viacom won’t let it monopolize the music TV market in vain.
Both Time Warner and Daenerys have made bets in related fields in recent years. Naturally, this not only carves up MTV's market, but also, whether it is Warner Records or Daenerys Records, as a global ranking The leading music giants and their own content resources have naturally closed the door to MTV to a certain extent.
For marketing and other reasons, major record companies can still provide enough content to MTV. However, it is conceivable that once MTV gradually loses the platform advantage it has accumulated for many years, it will only be a matter of time before the door is completely closed.
This is business competition.
In addition to the rapid rise of DHO, Daenerys's achievements in the basic cable TV field are also the envy of other media giants.
Among them, there are mainly two major TV stations, ESPN and USA.
After reaching an exclusive broadcast agreement with the NFL for a huge amount of US$9 billion four years ago, in the face of various doubts from Daenerys both internally and externally, espn has been soaring, and its share of the cable TV platform continues to rise. , subscribers are still increasing at a rate of more than 20% every year, and currently there are 110 million subscribers in North America alone.
The effect of exclusive broadcasting is so remarkable that ESPN has gradually turned its attention to basketball, baseball and other fields.
What was once called the ESPN tax has now taken shape again.
Then there is USA, a basic cable network specifically targeting female viewers. Last year, it completed a TV series called Desperate Housewives, which was its main feature. However, this year Project Runway came out, plus popular series such as Housewives and Sex and the City. The TV station The attention is no less than that of several major public television networks.
In North America, the number of subscribers of USA has also exceeded 100 million, and has surpassed ESPN, reaching 130 million.
At the same time, USA's share of the limited operating platform continues to rise. Compared with the initial meager 15 cents per user per month, this figure has now risen to $1.25, becoming one of the few shares among many basic cable networks in the United States. TV stations with a ratio of over $1.
This means that USA earns US$160 million every month just from subscription sharing.
Not only that, basic cable networks, unlike paid cable networks, can also place advertisements, and the subscription share and advertising revenue are approximately 50-50.
Daenerys' financial report for fiscal year 2000 has basically been completed. Among them, the USA TV Network alone has revenue of US$3.79 billion in the past four quarters and a net profit of US$530 million for the year.
Compared with Daenerys as a whole, this data does not seem to be too conspicuous. However, if we compare it with similar products, well, except for our own espn, there is currently no other basic cable network that can be compared with usa. We can only use the public television network. At the moment CBS can be regarded as one of the four major television networks. It is currently owned by Westinghouse Electric. After gradually coming out of the adjustment period after being acquired by Westinghouse, CBS's annual net profit in the most recent fiscal year was only US$590 million.
Although CBS ranks last among the current four major public television networks, USA, with its strength as a cable network, is able to reach the same profit level as CBS, a public television network with a long history. You can imagine how outstanding this basic cable network is. .
After all, USA is only part of Daenerys' huge television business territory, and at the same time, the television business is only part of the many business territories of Daenerys Entertainment.
Daenerys Entertainment has confirmed that it will release its full-year financial report for the fiscal year just past on October 19.
Even if the outside world already has various high or low expectations, no matter what, if you only look at one USA TV station, there is no doubt about the dominance of this super media giant in the same field.