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   Chapter 335 Fragrant Pastry

   "ICQ must be listed within two years, and America Telecom's users and revenue must also meet the requirements!"

  Song Yang and Immelt came to the open-air balcony on the top floor of the hotel. After sitting down, the two talked about the merger.

Immelt asked Song Yang to list at least one of ICQ and Inter-American Telecom in the market within two years, and the best is to list both at the same time. By then, ICQ, Inter-American Telecom, NBC, and Comcast will be listed. The merger of listed companies will definitely be a feast for the entire American investment industry!

   Anyway, no matter what method is used, it is the key to the merger to paint the performance of ICQ and America Telecom.

   "You don't have to worry about President Immelt. As long as it goes public, ICQ's stock price doesn't have to worry you."

   Immelt glanced at Song Yang suspiciously, not knowing why Song Yang was so sure, but nodded, "It's better."

It's not that Song Yang has many means, but a year or two later, almost the biggest frenzy of the Internet is coming. By then, Yahoo will have a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars. points? !

  If America Telecom can also make a surprise listing, then ICQ plus America Telecom, merged with NBC, Comcast TV network, plus INCN TV and other industries, is this an inappropriate sweet pastry?

   Immelt, who was only here for a trip, stayed in San Jose for two days and discussed with Song Yang for two days before leaving to return to the General Electric headquarters.

   Then, ICNC, the world's first TV website with cable channels, officially announced its establishment!

   As soon as the news came out, it attracted the attention of the entire Wall Street and Silicon Valley. There had been news before, but the announcement of the establishment of a TV station so quickly showed the attitude of the two major shareholders behind it!

ICNC TV station, the investment amount exceeded 400 million US dollars, ICQ and NBC each accounted for 40% of the equity, Microsoft, Comcast, Enron also announced investment, Microsoft and Comcast each invested 50 million US dollars, occupying The 7.5% equity of ICNC TV station, Enron has invested 35 million US dollars to occupy 5% of INCN's equity, that is, the newly established ICNC has not even a single hair, and its valuation has reached nearly 700 million US dollars...

   No matter what tricks ICNC TV can play, it can be regarded as creating a new history. It integrates the Internet and traditional media, and can be called the "rich second generation" of TV stations!

As soon as he was born, he has the full support of the old TV station NBC, 8 million users of Comcast TV network, broadband technical support of America Telecom, 30 million Internet users of ICQ, and 400 million US dollars in funds. Let ICNC burn casually, this kind of treatment, I wonder when TV stations have been treated like this for so many years? !

"ICNC TV station is expected to be piloted around October, American time. The new TV station will use offline and online dual broadcast methods. At present, it is established that a news channel will be established first, and fashion, entertainment, sports channels, cable channels will be opened in the future. Movie channels, pay TV, etc.”

  NBC TV was the first to report the news of the "Brother" TV station to the outside world. On the news page, the ICNC logo appeared, but the logo was still the classic rainbow peacock logo of NBC TV.

"ICNC will launch the "StayTuned" program, which will be broadcast every day at 7:00 am and 4:00 pm, according to incoming ICNC TV president Andy Lake, to make this program the best news program in America! "

   "In addition, ICNC announced that it will invite Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Kerber and others to join ICNC TV to produce programs.

Western Pictures, which has hired Jerry Bruckheimer, David Kelly, David Chase, Mark Cherry, Shonda Rhimes and others, announced that it will shoot "The Sopranos", "The Internship" in the future. "Doctor Grey", "Crisis Scene Investigation" and other TV series, supply content for ICNC! "

   Seeing this news, whether it is true or not, makes people feel that ICNC is really going to make a big fight. Looking at these reports through the screen, you can feel the beautiful knife burning.

   After the news, ICNC also officially raised a banner, announcing the start of recruiting. The offline ICNC TV headquarters is temporarily placed at the NBC headquarters, sharing an office building with NBC, and the online headquarters is in San Jose.

  ICNC TV station, this time directly recruited more than 500 staff, including editors, reporters, producers, makeup artists, logistics, hosts, etc. San Jose recruited about 200 people, and the rest belonged to NBC.

   In addition to spending money, ICNC has also made a big splash, announced and the "Chicago Tribune"

, "Chicago Observer", "New York News", "Houston Chronicle", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Time", "People" and other newspapers and magazines, can cite the resources of these newspapers, and get access to America at any time State news.

   Of course, this is definitely not for nothing. For this reason, ICNC TV station spends more than 40 million dollars in "cooperation fees" every year, but it also directly gives ICNC the strength to broadcast news from the entire American state.

If you see the rich and powerful ICNC TV station, if you say that your peers are not envious, it is absolutely false. Fox News TV and CNN, which are defined as the targets of competitors, see ICNC, which is madly throwing beautiful knives. If you want to say that you are not worried, it is absolutely true is fake.

   "Invite me to ICNC?"

   Ellen DeGeneres, who just came out of the ABC TV studio, was stunned when she heard the invitation from the headhunter from ICNC.

Ellen DeGeneres has not been famous for a long time. She dropped out of school in her freshman year, worked as a clerk in a law firm, sold clothes, worked as a waiter, a foreman, bartender, sales, etc. All the same, did a tour in America with a talk show crew.

A few years ago, she was known to the outside world as a guest on the "Today Show" program. In recent years, she has been starring in the TV series of the same name filmed by ABC TV station. When I heard that ICNC TV station wanted to invite her to do a talk show, Ellen. DeGeneres was stunned for a moment, and then her heart skipped a beat. She did not expect that the opportunity would fall on her head like this.

"I'm willing to try!" Ellen DeGeneres said directly to the headhunting company without thinking much. She understands that ICNC TV station has just been established, and they are poaching people to test the water. Once the program list is established, she will I'm afraid there may not be a chance.

Just like Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and others who received the invitation had no reason to refuse. They had been in the industry for so long, but they all knew that it was necessary to How difficult is it to wait for a chance to get ahead? To get a TV station to launch a TV program that focuses on them requires not only strength, but also a bit of luck...

  ICNC TV station soon announced the list of programs that were launched in the program list, including "The Ellen Show", "The Jimmy Feather Show", "The Colbert Report" and other lists.

   "ICNC has created a program for Wei Mi?!"

  Eric, who was busy negotiating with the Rugby League and wanted Victoria's Secret to show off in the Super Bowl, was stunned when he received Song Yang's call.

He knew that Song Yang would be rehabilitated, but he gave Wei Mi a TV channel directly, which was beyond Eric's expectations. If he didn't see Wei Mi, he would be on the TV station and appeared on the show for American users, like this Treatment, the entire fashion industry, which one has it, who will dare to say that Wei Mi Bigger is not enough in the future? !

"We can let Victoria's Secret hold a Victoria's Secret fashion show on ICNC's fashion channel, as well as the America's Supermodel Contest, a week in Hollywood, Dancing with the Stars and other programs, whether it is to invite the stars and directors of the Hollywood film and television industry, Or other sports or even serious people, anyway, RICK company should invite celebrities as soon as possible and organize fashion channels!"

On the phone, Song Yang explained to Eric that RICK should be involved. In addition to establishing ICNC's fashion channel as soon as possible, he also wanted to start promoting Victoria's Secret, and advertising on other media would take a long time. Money, on ICNC's own TV station, it's going to be a lot of tossing, anyway, it doesn't cost anything, it's just for training those Victoria's Secret models...

   "The launch of ICNC requires an explosive news. We want America and the world to know that a TV station called ICNC has appeared!"

  Andy Lake, who came from the NBC headquarters in New York, was talking to Song Yang impassively, asking ICNC to make a big move as the first show on the TV station.

   ICNC News Editor-in-Chief Williams, who came with Andy Lake, also glanced at Song Yang reluctantly.

Andy Lake and Williams first met Immelt, and then ran over to see Song Yang, the new owner. In comparison, Andy Lake was a relatively pure journalist, while Williams was a relatively pure journalist. To have more eyesight, of course, the most mind.

  Williams is a veteran media person who used to be a reporter specializing in interviewing major leaders. He has a deep relationship in the field of journalism. Like Andy Lake, he transferred from NBC to ICNC.

   Now he is not only the news editor-in-chief of ICNC TV, but also the news host of ICNC TV, including the "ICNC Evening News" in preparation, and he will also be the host.

Song Yang glanced at the time. Today he has other people to meet. The crew of "The Matrix" will come to see Song Yang today. After Song Yang nods his head to confirm the final star, the big production of the trilogy, will officially start shooting.

   But Andy Lake in front of him has no plans to leave, and is still telling Song Yang about his philosophy, that is, to create a sensation and attract everyone's attention, as the news of ICNC's launch.

   (end of this chapter)