Waking up naturally after a good night's sleep, lying comfortably on the big bed, with his hands touching the wall at the head of the bed, Candice Bushnell realized that this was not because he was familiar with the bedroom.
The door of the room was pushed open at this moment, and she quickly shrank back into bed, but was still noticed by the man who entered the door.
"Morning," Eric greeted the woman on the big bed with a smile, put the evening dress in his hand at the end of the bed, and turned to draw the curtains.
Candice Bushnell's eyes followed Eric's figure to the window, watched him open the curtains, and his bright eyes spilled into the bedroom, finally fully awake.
My God, it turned out that all this was not a dream, I actually slept with this little man in front of me, my God!
Thinking that she had slept with this man who was thirteen years younger than her, Candace Bushnell felt a burst of heat on her face, a little embarrassed, a little shy, and even a little bit excited.
Seeing Eric coming over and sitting down on the chair beside the big bed, Candice Bushnell pulled the quilt to cover his face with some embarrassment. After thinking about it, he felt a little inappropriate, and greeted slowly: " Good morning... Mr. Big."
Eric looked at Candice Bushnell's little girl-like reaction, nodded, and said jokingly, "Oh, I understand, this should be considered a compliment."
Candice Bushnell was stunned for a moment, and when he realized it, he couldn't help giggling a few times, but he didn't have the nerve to respond.
Seeing that Candice Bushnell was silent and unwilling, Eric said, "Candice, I have had your dress washed and ironed last night, um... That's it, I have it at nine o'clock A meeting."
Candace Bushnell poked her head out from under the covers and asked, "What time is it?"
Eric looked at his watch and said, "At eight thirty, the car is already waiting for me below."
"Ah, it's so late, then I..."
Candace Bushnell was about to sit up, Eric reached out and pressed her shoulder, and said, "No, you can sleep for a while, you can get up anytime you want, I just say goodbye to you."
Last night, he didn't rest until more than two o'clock in the morning. Although he had woken up, Candace Bushnell only felt weak, but he didn't want to get up at this time. Hearing Eric's words, he didn't hold on. After lying down Turning his body sideways, he felt a little curious about Eric, and tentatively asked, "Is it an important meeting?"
"If you pay attention to recent media news, you should know that ESPN is about to sign a new contract with the National Football League," Eric explained, then smiled, and said: "I almost forgot that women should treat sports as men should." I'm not too interested in fashion, are I?"
Candice Bushnell shook her head: "Of course not. I was a cheerleader for my school football team when I was a kid."
Eric knew she was being polite, smiled, took out a card from his suit pocket and put it on the bedside table, and said: "I made some breakfast, you can eat some after you get up, if you don't like it, there are still some in the refrigerator Others, the driver's number is on the card, you can call this number if you need a car later."
Candice Bushnell was a little disappointed when she saw that Eric didn't give her his personal business card, but she didn't ask for it. Both parties knew it was just an ordinary one-night stand, and she wouldn't be so stupid as to go further. luxury.
Seeing the woman nodded, Eric continued: "Also, regarding the heroine of "Sex and the City", I discussed it with Annie on the phone this morning. Since Liz is not suitable, let's look for another candidate. But hurry up and don't delay too long."
Candace Bushnell knew that since Eric had appointed Elizabeth Hurley as the heroine, the relationship between the two must be unusual. Hearing his words, he asked, "So, where is Miss Hurley?"
"You don't have to worry about it, I will arrange it," Eric finished, got up and said, "Then, goodbye."
"Goodbye," Candice Bushnell reached out from under the quilt and waved to Eric.
When the door was closed, Candice Bushnell turned around and lay on her back on the big bed, staring at the ceiling for a while, feeling that she could no longer fall asleep, so she had to get up.
She fumbled to find Neiyi to put it on, walked into the room barefoot, and saw the brand-new toothbrush in the cup with a sticky note on the washstand, and her somewhat empty mood suddenly improved a lot. He tore off the note and looked at it. It turned out that his words were like this. Thinking in his heart, he subconsciously put the note under his nose and sniffed it, and then secretly laughed at his nympho behavior. Putting down the note, I noticed the large bathtub in the bathroom, and suddenly became interested again.
After soaking comfortably in a hot bath, she wrapped herself in a bathrobe and went downstairs. There were a few simple breakfasts on the coffee table in the living room. As usual, it was a very considerate note, with her bag and mobile phone beside her. In the past, she turned on the mobile phone that was turned off last night, looked around, and saw a round table by the French window not far away, she picked up her breakfast and walked over.
There is still a stack of newspapers on the table, it is estimated that he should eat here in the morning and read the newspapers by the way.
Remembering the cooperation between ESPN and the National Football League that Eric casually mentioned when he left, Candice Bushnell curiously flipped through today's newspapers while eating breakfast, although he really had no interest in sports games.
The "New York Times" really used a lot of space to report the cooperation negotiations between ESPN and the National Football League (NFL).
In the past, ESPN’s NFL broadcast rights contracts were negotiated on an annual or seasonal basis, but this time, ESPN is ambitious and wants to sign an eight-year contract with the NFL at one time, and it is a completely exclusive exclusive contract. Once the deal is reached, ESPN will have exclusive rights to broadcast the NFL's weekly league.
Candice Bushnell didn't know much about the various professional analyzes in the newspaper articles, but she was secretly stunned when she saw the total contract amount of 9 billion US dollars, which had already been separated from her In the realm of imagination, the eight-year contract is 9 billion US dollars. Is the broadcasting rights of NFL games really worth so much money? ESPN is a TV station owned by Firefly, so he won’t lose money because of it, right
Thinking wildly, the phone rang suddenly, and just as she picked it up, a female voice came out of the microphone.
"..."
Listening to the bombardment of a series of questions from her best friend, without any intention of stopping, Candice Bushnell had to take the initiative to interrupt the other party: "Okay, okay, Sonia, I admit that I slept with him, so don't stop Long-winded."
There was another exclamation from the opposite side, and Candice Bushnell reluctantly moved the receiver away from his ear, and when the other party finished speaking, he said, "Please, Sonia, I hope to find my Mr.Big, but This one is Mr.Biggest, a delicate and frail little woman like me will be crushed to powder if I pounce on it, this is just a one-night stand."
"..."
"I don't know why, anyway, I was brought back by him in such a daze, and, you said so, I also remembered, those women with shining eyes at the party last night must hate me to death, um, It seems that I have to be careful these days to prevent being calculated."
"..."
"Oh, now," Candice Bushnell heard another question from her best friend, looked out of the glass window, and her vision fell on the Central Park shrouded in sunlight. Central Park in late autumn lacked the vibrant greenery of summer. However, the red maple and yellow leaves add radiance to each other, which still gives people a sense of colorful dream: "I am sitting in the penthouse apartment at the entrance of Sixth Avenue, eating the breakfast made by Mr.Biggest himself, and enjoying the whole central The scenery of the park and the upper city, I have to say that the view here is really amazing, I want to stay here, even if I live here as a maid."
"..."
"He, he has already gone to work, how could he be so leisurely like us little girls... what, don't even think about it, let you in, who knows what kind of trouble you, an unreasonable guy, will make, no— Yes, absolutely-yes-no-ok."
"..."
The other side didn't know what to say, Candice Bushnell spat blushingly, but the voice in the microphone chased after her.
"Oh, you shameless woman," Candice Bushnell yelled with a ruddy face and a smile on the corner of her mouth. After a while, she seemed to be unable to withstand the fierce pursuit of her best friend, and she faltered After a while, he gestured unconsciously with his fingers, and replied: "He is probably a little strong, you know, the kind on the bed, and then, um, very comfortable, definitely able to send you to the sky and float for a night, but It doesn't prevent you from getting out of bed the next day and walking back by yourself... Ah bah, you bad guy, you actually said that I was slutty, obviously you asked such an obscene question first, oh, I see, you are jealous, yes, jealous ,snort."
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Eric's residence is less than two kilometers away from the ABC headquarters on Sixty-seventh Street on the Upper West Side. When Candice Bushnell was talking about him privately with his best friend, Eric had already arrived at the ABC headquarters.
Today will discuss a very important topic for ESPN TV and even for Firefly's TV business, about the $9 billion contract between EPSN and the National Football League.
Among the hundreds of cable TV stations that have appeared in the United States, ESPN is undoubtedly the most dazzling one. Since the late 1980s, with a large number of sports broadcast contracts in hand, ESPN has become the first choice for all sports fans in North America. TV station. What's more, ESPN is still the highest broadcasting fee among all the current TV stations in North America, and it is also the only basic cable TV station whose average subscriber share breaks through one dollar. 68 cents, and the average subscription fee of all cable TV stations in North America is only 20 cents, which shows how powerful ESPN is.
In my memory, the market value of Disney, which annexed ABC, was only about 200 billion U.S. dollars at its highest point, but the market value of a single ESPN TV station reached 50 billion. After the decline of the public television network, ESPN’s profits and revenue even occupied Disney TV. More than half of the total business revenue.
Although he didn't pay much attention to sports in his previous life, Eric also remembers that after the new century, when various sports TV stations are vying to catch up, the main reason why EPSN can maintain its strong industry position is that it holds A large number of monopoly sports broadcasting rights.
As the most popular sport in the United States, the NFL's rugby league broadcast rights must also be within the grasp of ESPN.
Eric didn't know the development trajectory of EPSN before. It wasn't until a few days ago that the president of ESPN came up with an ambitious plan to monopolize the broadcasting rights of the NFL league. He didn't understand how ESPN has risen strongly.
ESPN currently has about 90 million subscribers, with an average subscription fee of US$1.3, and the total annual broadcast rights share and advertising revenue are about US$2 billion. Robert Iger, who had just disbanded Tom Murphy and was in charge of the TV business, was taken aback. Robert Iger was very excited about the prospect described by Steve Bernstein, but felt that the possibility of implementing this plan was very slim. I had too much expectation, but I still submitted the plan to Katzenberg.
Katzenberg's vision is also very sharp. Of course, he also saw the huge potential hidden in this plan, but he also saw the greater risk in the plan. Once the contract is won with 9 billion US dollars, but the plan But if it fails, the consequences will be unimaginable, and this plan has another disadvantage, because it wants to monopolize all event broadcasters, the price of 9 billion US dollars has exceeded 50% of the original broadcasting rights price, then, since ESPN is interested in If the price of the NFL league increases, then other competition leagues will definitely ask for a price increase. Once ESPN's revenue growth does not meet expectations, not to mention the gradually increasing copyright licensing prices of other prices, just paying the NFL's annual copyright fee of 1.125 billion US dollars is enough. Enough to drag ESPN down slowly.
In the end, Katzenberg couldn't make a decision, so he had to submit the plan to Eric himself.
Katzenberg's vision is also very sharp. Of course, he also saw the huge potential hidden in this plan, but he also saw the greater risk in the plan. Once the contract is won with 9 billion US dollars, but the plan But if it fails, the consequences will be unimaginable, and this plan has another disadvantage, because it wants to monopolize all event broadcasters, the price of 9 billion US dollars has exceeded 50% of the original broadcasting rights price, then, since ESPN is interested in If the price of the NFL league increases, then other competition leagues will definitely ask for a price increase. Once ESPN's revenue growth does not meet expectations, not to mention the gradually increasing copyright licensing prices of other prices, just paying the NFL's annual copyright fee of 1.125 billion US dollars is enough. Enough to drag ESPN down slowly.
In the end, Katzenberg couldn't make a decision, so he had to submit the plan to Eric himself. (To be continued.)