Global Tycoon: You Call This A Small Achievement?

Television stations are the absolute core of the media industry. All the top media groups in the world have their own television stations. This has almost become one of the most important indicators to measure whether a media company has the ability to become a media hegemon.

Without TV stations, even if we achieve the ultimate in the field of print media such as magazines and newspapers and achieve dominance in the industry, we will simply not be able to compete with the international media stars who control the hegemony of public opinion.

It's like the kind of people who dare to name themselves "media" just to make movies and online dramas, just to entertain themselves. If they really think so in their hearts, they can only be said to be ignorant and fearless. It’s just for people to laugh.

Simply speaking, Oriental Culture Media Group is considered to be on the front line in Yazhou, and it is also the leader among private media companies.

But this also depends on who you compare with. If you look at the world, it may only be barely considered a third-tier company.

The real front line should be like the later News Group. In North America, it controls more than 40% of the TV stations in Amerika and America. In Europe, there is also Sky TV station in the UK but radiating throughout Europe. In the Peacock Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific, there is also EEV.

Even in China, hundreds of millions of people can watch satellite TV stations owned by News Corporation.

A company's influence radiates to billions of people around the world, and it naturally controls the right to speak in the world. It confuses right and wrong, and treats deer as horse.

No matter how arrogant and arrogant He Zhou is, he will not think that the public opinion machine he created can be compared with these entities standing in the world's media pyramid.

There is an issue of capital size, but there are also other factors that are more important than capital.

All in all, the current Oriental Culture Media Group must win a TV station that truly belongs to it as soon as possible.

Then use this as a springboard to find ways to enter countries around the world, buy and merge newspapers, periodicals, magazines and even TV stations, exert influence in various media fields, and win a ticket for Oriental Culture Media to enter the world's first-tier media giants.

For now, attention needs to be focused on Xiangjiang itself.

There are three TV stations in Xiangjiang, which is almost the limit for Xiangjiang, a small place with a population of only more than two million.

If more TV stations are added on this basis, then several TV stations will simultaneously enter a stage of serious losses.

There are only so many viewers, and the pool is so big, and everyone is competing with each other. The more fierce the competition, the more serious the involution, and the more difficult the Yin family's life will be.

In fact, the competition between the three major TV stations in Hong Kong is similar to the relationship between the three online long-form video platforms of Penguin Video, iQiyi, and Youku in later generations. On the surface, they are competing for exclusive copyrights, but in fact they are competing for rivals. user resources.

Fierce industry competition has caused the transaction price of exclusive copyrights to rise repeatedly. In the end, there is no real winner among the three. Even if the price of membership business is repeatedly raised to cut off leeks, the financial statements of each platform are still very ugly.

The competition among the three TV stations in Xiangjiang in terms of content production costs is not too fierce. The most important problem is that the population of Xiangjiang is only over two million and the market capacity is limited.

This is the most deadly!

Self-broadcasting, a model that seems advanced in later generations, has been popular from the beginning.

In fact, Xiangjiang's entertainment tycoons have almost completed the closed loop of the entire industry chain, from selecting star artist seeds for talent shows, to cultivating artists through brokerage business, film and television production, record sales, etc.

Among them, the most thorough implementation is Shao Yifu's entertainment empire.

Simply looking at this era, this is a fairly advanced model, and it quite means concentrating efforts on doing big things.

But with the advent of the big film industry and the era of standardized and streamlined production, even Aramco’s six companies can no longer achieve a closed loop, let alone a company that started in Hong Kong?

The competition was ultimately doomed, almost doomed from the start.

There is no limit to the involution. If you don’t bravely choose to involute, you will end up in a dead end!

Aramco's big company can spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to make a movie. After Xiangjiang closed the loop, the leading film and television company has a total revenue of less than a few hundred million dollars a year, and its profits are only 20 to 30 million US dollars in good years. If you invest in bad movies in a bad year and suffer serious losses, how can you compete?

Back to business.

Among the three major TV stations in Hong Kong, TVB is impossible to buy. As Lijia slowly retreats behind the scenes, Shao Yifu continues to increase his stake in TVB. TVB is even regarded by Shao Yifu as the most critical and most important part of his entertainment empire. Core stuff.

On the contrary, the film industry where he started is regarded by everyone in Hong Kong as an infinitely brilliant Hong Kong film. Capital is pouring in crazily, but he vaguely smells the smell of death and plans to gradually withdraw and rush to the limit.

In order to completely control TVB, Shao Yifu even became less enthusiastic about the film industry. It can be seen how important TVB is as far as he and his entire entertainment empire are concerned.

This is simply the lifeblood of wireless!

Unless the infinite entertainment empire completely collapses, it will be impossible for Shao Yifu to sell TVB.

But with Shao Yifu's steady and steady style, Infinite's film business may be brain-dead, and TVB's huge size will gradually shrink, but it will never collapse overnight.

As for the second-ranked Jiayi TV station, there is also a wave of tycoons behind it. The financial backers behind it include even the gambling kings of Haohai, the He family, and the Xiangjiang banking family, the Lin family, etc.

If He Zhou simply wanted to get a piece of the pie and use Jiayi TV to expand the cooperation between its newspapers and even Oriental News Agency and the TV station, it would not be too difficult.

Even if he wants to get a small share of the shares, I believe those tycoons will sell him a little face.

But if you want to hold a controlling shareholding and achieve complete privatization, it is simply impossible to achieve the goal, and it is just a dream!

At a certain level, the role of money may become less important, and more focused on the exchange of interests.

For example, no matter how hard he tried, he didn't know what kind of benefits he could get out of doing this deal with the gambling king He family in Haohai.

Money? The He family is not short of money. It is no joke that the gambling king is making money every day. The real situation may even be more exaggerated.

For the He family, the investment in Jiayi TV is not a simple investment, but a reflection of the He family's influence in Hong Kong. Once the investment is withdrawn, what will the He family do to influence Hong Kong?

Simply harvesting investment costs and obtaining negligible gains are simply insignificant compared with invisible losses.

By then, you can't expect your own casino to have any influence, right? Haohai is even worse than Xiangjiang. No matter how Xiangjiang can produce several industries, Haohai can no longer produce any industry except gambling.

Not to mention industry. In a place with a big nose, there are no raw materials, and there are more than 200,000 people including the old, weak, sick and disabled. It is simply a fantasy to expect Haohai to stand up with its industrial wealth. It is better to concentrate on gambling. After becoming bigger and stronger, it will be enough for the citizens of Yinghai to live a nourishing life.

If it were in later generations, tourism could barely be considered an industry in Haohai, but compared with the tourism industry in Xiangjiang, it is completely incomparable. It can only be said that besides the gaming industry, it has opened up another source of income for Haohai. Like chicken ribs, they are tasteless when eaten and a pity to throw away.

Therefore, in this era, the reason why Haohai is close to Xiangjiang and is willing to advance and retreat with Xiangjiang on many issues. Apart from political factors and the traditional sentiment that blood is thicker than water, the main reason is that Haohai needs Haohai more than Xiangjiang. The sea needs Hong Kong more!

Even in Haohai's gaming industry, 683 Xiangjiang's contribution once exceeded 40%.

Among the rich and upper-class people in Xiangjiang, it is almost a suggestion that they can go to the casino in Haohai that day and come back by boat the next day.

Haohai can't expect wealthy people from European and American countries thousands of miles away to come to Haohai to have fun, right?

Even if cultural barriers are not taken into account, the frequency of European and American wealthy people coming to play and have fun is not too high, and it is not like there are no similar places to play in Europe and the United States.

Even people in Europe and the United States are better at playing. The cruise ship sails directly to the high seas and opens tables. The laws of various countries have no control. Even if they play for three days and three nights, no one will care...

Therefore, as the gambling king said, Haohai's large and small casinos are not afraid of you winning, but afraid that you will not come. Talent is the foundation of everything.

Losing more and losing less, winning more and winning less are secondary. The most important thing is the frequency. It is best to develop a habit, then Haohai's financial resources will roll in on the east wind.

Of course, there is another reason why He Zhou did not choose Jiayi TV Station, and that is that this TV station is inherently a trap.

Because according to Hong Kong government regulations, Jiayi TV must broadcast 8 hours of educational programs every day

Just thinking about it, you can imagine how terrifying it is!

As long as the Hong Kong government's regulations are not revoked, he is not willing to take over this hot potato, let alone pay for it, even if it is for free.

For TV stations, advertising business will always be their main source of income. Unless the Hong Kong government agrees to put all 8 hours of educational programs in late night and early morning, it will never make ends meet.

However, the original intention of the Hong Kong government in promulgating this regulation is to improve the quality of education in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong and expand the horizons of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.

Let me ask, whose child gets up late at night and early in the morning every day to watch educational programs? Doesn’t he have to go to school the next day?

TVB Shao Yifu cannot let go, Jiayi TV Station is a sinkhole, so the only option is the last option, Li’s TV Station!