Chapter 842 (1/2)

Snow and Greenwich were received to Los Angeles on September 19. Sophia didn't come to North America, but Jennifer went to Rome. Simon probably can understand the woman's mind and doesn't want to be too reluctant. He just hopes that the two kids can really integrate into the Westeros.

When Jennifer went to pick up, Janet arranged for a small team from Boeing to accompany her.

The other two Boeing 767s ordered by the Westeros family at the beginning of the year are about to start interior decoration. Janet hands over the design work of one of them to Sophia, and asks the female assistant to take a message. Later, this plane is Sophia's exclusive car, and she can often come to Los Angeles to see her children.

It's a kind of default.

Sophia didn't refuse, either.

On the other hand, this weekend, when happy ranch was launched, Simon was in New York. In order to ensure the safety of American Idol, he personally participated in the later work of the first phase of the first season of the reality show.

September 25, a new week.

At the end of September, danielis Entertainment's TV series and reality shows such as survivors, friends, Seinfeld, desperate housewives, Beverly's wife and who will be a millionaire have been launched one after another. The latest season, the last week of this month, as well as American Idol on September 26 and desire on September 28 Two new projects are waiting to be launched.

Meanwhile, on the morning of Tuesday, September 26, after a series of merger and acquisition news this month, Denise entertainment and metropolitan ABC Group held a press conference in New York to announce that the merger of the two companies was officially approved by the US Department of justice, the Federal Communications Commission and other departments, and was about to enter the next stage of the transaction.

Then, at 8 p.m., American Idol was on air.

The first episode lasts 86 minutes, which is actually a two episode broadcast. This is the practice of most newly launched TV programs in order to attract enough popularity and test audience feedback at the first time.

Simon didn't sign his name on the ”American Idol” producer list as usual, but the circle knew that he was highly involved in the reality show, so they all paid close attention to it. Many entertainment media predicted that the number of viewers of the first episode of ”American Idol” would exceed 20 million before the shooting of the show.

It turns out that most people's judgment is too conservative.

Half an hour after the broadcast, Nelson, who monitors the ratings of American TV programs in real time, released the first data on his official website.

34.7 million.

This is the number of viewers of the first episode of American Idol, which has risen directly from the hit series predicted by many media to the phenomenal level.

Igritte portal responded quickly and put the relevant articles on the front page, and there were also popular entries on Facebook, which further promoted many potential audiences to pay attention to the reality show.

Simon arrived in New York last Thursday to finish the first issue of American Idol, but he still couldn't return to the west coast. There is still more work to be done after the federal approval of Denise's merger with metropolitan ABC.

While the long-standing ”American Idol” was broadcast on ABC, Denise and metropolitan ABC were holding a reception at a hotel on the upper west side, mainly to celebrate the approval of the merger. The news that American Idol has made a good start also came for the first time, and everyone in the banquet hall raised their glasses to celebrate.

Because of the early stage publicity, the initial ratings of the just launched series must be relatively high, and some of the subsequent audiences feel that they don't meet the taste and change channels, which will lead to a decline.

However, the initial 34.7 million viewers, even if there is a certain degree of decline, as long as the average number of premiere viewers remains above 30 million, it is an absolute success.

Once the ”American Idol” broadcast, the audience rushed to 30 million, became the ace of fox. This time, Simon's expectation is that the average audience rating of the first season will reach more than 20 million, even if it is successful.

Unexpectedly, I underestimated myself.

I don't know who told me that with the news of the launch of the program, the hotel staff quickly moved a large screen TV and put it in a corner of the banquet hall. Naturally, it was ”American Idol”. The guests knew what a 30 million TV program meant, and many people were curious to watch it.

Simon did not join in the fun, but got together with several senior executives of the two companies to discuss the subsequent merger.

After the merger is approved by the authorities, the first thing to do is to settle accounts.

Because a flexible settlement scheme was given at the beginning, the shareholders of Metro ABC can freely choose the transaction ratio of stock and cash, so it takes two weeks to register and make statistics, which is much more complicated than many mergers and acquisitions that directly deliver a large check after being approved, and the additional accounting cost will be tens of millions of dollars. However, since it has been promised, when But we have to carry it out.

Only after the payment and settlement has been completed can Denise entertainment officially include metropolitan ABC Group.

Then, according to the original plan, personnel adjustment, asset restructuring and other matters will be carried out. Tom Murphy, former chairman and CEO of metropolitan ABC Group, will officially retire after the handover. The TV assets of metropolitan ABC Group and Denise TV Department will be integrated into a new Denise TV company. Robert egger will be the CEO and take charge of ABC TV network and ESPN power TV network, USA TV network, AE TV network, Fashion TV network, ABC Radio and so on are all the TV assets of Denise entertainment group.In addition to the television network, Metro ABC Group has a group of newspapers and magazines worth no less than $1 billion.

Simon initially planned to package and sell this part of the assets, but later decided to cancel the idea.

Danielis entertainment is not short of the $1 billion cash now. On the contrary, more newspapers and magazines will give more media voice. Therefore, it plans to integrate this part of the assets with a group of paper media inherited from MCA. The decline of the paper media industry is an inevitable trend, but even if the value of the last batch of assets depreciates to zero, it doesn't matter relative to the huge volume of Daniels entertainment.

Initially complete the adjustment, and then spend one to two years to achieve the synergy of the entire danilisi entertainment integration.

Synergy is a seemingly simple word.

For many merged enterprises, it is not easy to realize.

When Time Warner Bros. and Time Inc. merged, what they publicized was the hope that the two companies could achieve synergy effect. As a result, Time Warner still has internal strife and disputes, and executives from different mountains vie for power and profit. The synergy effect has not been realized, but internal friction is serious.

If not, Time Warner's share price will not remain depressed.

Simon is full of confidence in the synergy effect of the new danilisi entertainment group, because the company has only one brain. Moreover, at the beginning of danilisi entertainment, Simon has been promoting collaboration among departments, which has become a corporate culture of danilisi entertainment.

In fact, it is inevitable that there will be differences when there are more people.