Ted Turner was disappointed that no one had partnered with him to build CNN.
At this moment, he is hesitating in his heart, should he sell all the valuable things and invest in the construction of CNN
It's a big gamble!
If you win, your value will skyrocket; if you lose, you will have nothing.
It's also a tough choice!
Ted Turner hesitated for a long time and still couldn't make a decision!
Ring Ring Ring! ! !
At this time, the phone rang.
Ted Turner was suddenly awakened by the ringing of the phone. He walked over to answer the phone, but it was a pleasant surprise.
"Hello, Mr. Ted Turner, I'm Chronos Li's secretary. Do you have time?" Dongfang Yuqin said unhurriedly.
Hearing this, Ted Turner was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "I have time, anytime!!!" He paused and asked, "When can Mr. Li meet?"
"Mr. Li invites you to have lunch at his house at noon tomorrow!"
"Okay, please tell Mr. Li, I am honored that he can invite me to lunch, and I must rush over in time!"
"Okay, Mr. Turner!"
At this point, the two ended the call.
Ted Turner was so excited that he almost jumped up. In the case that all the media were not optimistic about him, the most dazzling talent in America agreed with him and offered to meet him, which undoubtedly gave him great confidence, which was far better than Money brought him the role!
"The major TV networks are doing their best to ridicule, waiting to see my failure! Well, I will prove it to you, whether I, Ted Turner, will succeed or fail!!!" De Turner shouted out, venting his resentment.
The whole world is turbid but I am alone, everyone is drunk but I am alone awake!
Ted Turner was alone before, but at this moment, he feels that he has like-minded people, he is no longer fighting alone, and there is a genius fighting alongside him!
"Alice, help me book a plane ticket to Los Angeles immediately, the sooner the better!" Ted Turner immediately called the female secretary, and he was looking forward to the lunch at noon tomorrow!
"Okay, Mr. Turner."
So, that afternoon, Ted Turner flew from Atlanta, a city in the eastern United States to Los Angeles in the western United States.
Before getting on the plane, he picked up a newspaper that happened to read about him: "The days of Ted Turner's sober sailing are over!"
After reading the report, he laughed disdainfully.
Immediately, he put away the newspaper, and when he succeeded in the future, he took it out to humiliate these media!
…
The next day at noon, Beverly Hills.
Ted Turner came to Li Zetian's house and received a warm welcome.
In the restaurant, Ted Turner smiled: "Mr. Li, it's a great honor for you to invite me to lunch!"
Li Zetian smiled and said, "It is also my honor that you can come to participate! Let's chat while eating!"
"Um."
Li Zetian then had a drink with him and said straight to the point: "I heard that Mr. Turner planned to establish CNN, although the major media were not optimistic, but I was very interested in this. However, I am afraid that the establishment of CNN It's not easy, Mr. Turner must have encountered a lot of difficulties, right?"
Ted Turner nodded, "Yes, it is difficult! Because CNN needs to broadcast live news 24 hours a day, which requires the establishment of press offices in major cities in the United States and around the world, with a number of A very large team of reporters and editors! In order to allow CNN to cover farther places, it must obtain the right to launch satellites, so I had to go to court with the Communications Commission to win this lawsuit! In addition, in order to interview the most important , The most attractive news must enter the White House, but at present only the first-class mass media have the opportunity to join the White House press corps, and this privilege has been monopolized by the three major TV networks for many years!"
Ted Turner was frank and brought up all the difficulties.
Li Zetian smiled bitterly in his heart. He didn't expect that building CNN was more difficult than he thought. However, Ted Turner dared to challenge authority and charge into battle, which is good.
"These difficulties, I believe, will be solved easily!" Li Zetian said, "Mr. Turner, you must be very clear about what I mean by asking you to meet. However, I hope that I can absolutely control, that is to say, I must hold at least 51 More than % of the shares! But don’t worry, I will support your work!”
When Ted Turner heard the words, he was silent for a moment, thinking about this question.
After a minute or two, he replied, "Mr. Li, if you can invest $30 million, I promise to give you 51% of the shares!"
Although this price is a bit high, it is still within the acceptable range of Li Zetian.
"Okay, I accept! But I have one more condition!" He nodded and replied.
"What conditions?" Ted Turner asked.
"If you want to sell your shares in the future, I have the right of first refusal!" Li Zetian said.
"That's fine!"
So, after lunch, the two sides reached an agreement and signed the contract that day!
Ted Turner owns a company called Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of CNN, which broadcasts movies, television, and sports events, including professional wrestling, baseball, basketball, and hockey. In order to ensure that his TV station can always broadcast live games, he has successively bought the Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Atlanta Hawks (basketball team), the Atlanta Flames (hockey) and so on.
This trick was later learned by Li Zetian and carried forward. But these are all things to talk about later.
At present, Li Zetian has registered a broadcasting company, called Chronos Broadcasting Company (Cronos = Chronos), as the parent company of the TV industry. The parent company of Kronos Broadcasting Corporation is the umbrella company.
With Ted Turner at CNN, Li Zetian doesn't have to worry about it.
The immediate priority is to build the MTV music television network, and then create the "Voice of America" program!
Time is pressing, and Li Zetian doesn't know when the MTV in his previous life was established, and it's probably coming soon. In short, we must get ahead and occupy the market.
Li Zetian learned from Ted Turner the experience of the rapid development of TV stations. First, he bought a bankrupt TV station, obtained TV channels, and then provided all-weather music programs to cable network and satellite TV users through satellite.
At this stage, Li Zetian is busy developing games in the morning, building the MTV network in the afternoon, and paying attention to the development of various companies under his name in the evening. He is busy all day and only sleeps 6 hours a day. Even meal time is working.
God rewards hard work!
Li Zetian acquired several bankrupt TV stations, and through integration, he quickly established the MTV TV network, but the coverage in the United States is very small. The program team began to select excellent songs, and then invited record companies and singers to cooperate to make MVs. For record companies and singers, it is also a good thing to be able to appear on TV stations for publicity, and few people refuse. It's just a bit more depressing, the record company is reluctant to spend a lot of money to make a well-made MV. Basically, the singer sings a song in front of the camera and it's done. Well, even so, it is also very attractive to the audience, not only listening to songs but also seeing their favorite singers.
The MTV network began broadcasting music videos across the country, becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
However, Li Zetian was not very satisfied with this. He was used to watching the wonderful MVs in his previous life, and when he saw the boring MVs now, he felt the same taste.
"It seems that we still have to wait for Jingqiu and Michael Jackson's MVs to be completed, and then detonate the world!!!" Li Zetian murmured, then looked at Dongfang Yuqin and asked, "Michael Jackson promised to come to Violet Records. ?"
"Li Xueyu is communicating with him, I will call and ask now."
"Um."
Dongfang Yuqin called Li Xueyu at this time. After a while, she hung up the phone and said to Li Zetian: "Michael Jackson learned that the Violet Records company was founded by Mr. Li, so he was very interested. It's two o'clock this afternoon. Get ready to visit the record company."
"Well, then let's go in the afternoon too."
"OK."
…
Michael Jackson came to Violet Records. The company is small, but the equipment inside is all top-notch, and the employees are all elites in the industry. Michael Jackson and Li Xueyu met and chatted for a while. He was a little shocked when he learned that the company has only signed one singer, and he was Li Zetian's wife.
"Chronos Li's wife is also on this record company, it's incredible!"
"So, you should know that Chronos Li will definitely spend a lot of money to develop this record company. Besides Mrs Li, you will be the second singer signed by Violet Records, if you join..." Li Xueyu smiled He added, "You are the person who was personally named and invited by Chronos Li, which shows that he takes you very seriously, and he also promised to write a few songs for you!"
"He can write songs?!" Michael Jackson was surprised.
Li Xueyu smiled and said: "Yes, he is talented and a musical genius. In fact, at first, like you, I didn't believe it, but when I listened to the songs he wrote for Mrs Li, I was completely convinced! Frankly speaking, I've never seen a man as amazing and talented as him, he's really different!"
Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!
Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin came to Violet Records at this time. When they learned that Michael Jackson was in Li Xueyu's office, they rushed over.
dong dong dong!
Li Zetian knocked on the door a few times as a courtesy, then pushed the door open.
Michael Jackson's fame is not small, but he is still far from the Uranus superstar. When he saw Li Zetian, he was slightly excited.
And the first impression he brought to Li Zetian was, damn, the dark and young Michael Jackson is younger than me, I am 56 years old, he is 58 years old, he wants to call me brother! ! !
Michael Jackson looks so much better now than the scary face with white skin in his previous life...
Li Zetian looked at him and asked, "Jackson, are you willing to come to Violet Records?"
Michael Jackson also has a business acumen. He knows that when the world's top richest people establish a record company, they will definitely develop vigorously, and they will obtain more resources than other record companies.
"Mr. Li, I am very willing, this is my honor! It's just that I signed a contract with the previous record company... "
"The contract break fee is all paid by Violet Records, you don't have to worry about it!"
Li Zetian said with a smile in his heart, how much is it to break the contract, Michael Jackson is the cash cow, and his joining will definitely make the Violet Records fame and fortune, because people will think that the Violet Records made Michael Jackson, thus attracting countless singers to join Record company!
Michael Jackson was moved when he saw that Li Zetian agreed to pay the contract break fee without even thinking about it!