Chapter 280: The Pattern Must Be Big
Kura Yokozu participated in several interview programs of "Titanic" in Tokyo and took turns to appear in interview programs of several TV stations. However, he is not the protagonist, and he basically watches James Cameron pretending.
The global box office of "Titanic" is sprinting towards $1 billion, which is the current world box office record. Therefore, truck drivers have the capital to blow up a big wave.
Neon's TV stations are mainly NHK plus private stations, namely Fuji, Asahi, Tokyo, TBS and NTV.
If you want to talk about revenue, it probably has to be Fuji TV, one is worth two. Asahi is actually just like that. TV stations are not capable of making money at all. Well, shareholders don’t value money, they value influence.
When Kura Yokozu sent Lingxi back to Yan, he brought Long Ge of the Chinese Football Association and the second daughter of Achu, Lu Zhongying, and Zheng Mengjun contacted Ken Nagamaru, Ken Nagamaru, Shunichiro Okano and Saburo Kawaburi, and seven people gathered together to study the matters of the East Asian Football Super League.
Cang Yaozu was the main speaker of this conference. Who said that this matter was brought up by him? Cang Yaozu congratulated the three East Asian countries on joining hands to enter the finals of the 1998 French World Cup, and then summarized the development of the Three East Asian Football League.
The Neon J League started in 1993 and has been in operation this year for less than five years. South Korea's K League began in 1994. There is no promotion and relegation system for both the K League and the J League now, and they are facing reforms. China's A League also has many problems, and the recent anti-gang campaign has also been booming, and reforms are imperative.
Next, Cang Yaozu proposed the idea of the East Asian Football Super League, from the three East Asian countries joining hands to enter this World Cup, Neon and South Korea jointly host the next World Cup, and talked about the specific teams participating in the East Asian Super League, competition mechanism, foreign aid restrictions, transfer policies, guaranteed places, upper limit places, and four teams relegated and upgraded play-offs.
Finally, Cang Yaozu also talked about the necessity of bringing up East Asia and other Southeast Asian countries and regions. Well, for the market of these countries, so that the advertising value of the East Asian Super League will be higher, and the market value of each club will naturally be higher.
The generous bonuses, fierce confrontations and the introduction of excellent foreign aid will surely benefit the three East Asian football powers. Finally, Cang Yaozu talked about his specific plans, such as the East Asian Football Super League was established in the neutral Lingxi Island Free Trade Zone, which facilitates the radiation of influence to Southeast Asia.
The three Football Associations of China, Neon and South Korea each have three members, and other countries have sent one member to enter the management committee of the East Asian Football Super League and set up a referee committee. The participating teams must pay a fair competition deposit, and Star TV will win the overall broadcast rights of the East Asian Super League for US$500 million.
The 1998-1999 season was the first season of the Eastern Super League, with a season bonus of US$200 million. The title of the Eastern Super League and the title advertisements, jersey advertisements, sneaker advertisements, etc. are all represented by Focus Media and Focus Advertising Platforms to strive to sell at a large price, and so on.
After listening to Cang Yaozu's plan, Zheng Mengzhun, who knew the inside story, was better than Brother Long and Uncle Lu, and the three giants of the Neon Football Association were shocked. This plan is really too big, and it seems that the situation in the past was still too small.
China's huge market, neon-developed economy, South Korea's stronger football strength, and other countries' upgrade play-offs are in chaos. This plan is very feasible and full of gimmicks.
"Mr. Kurakura, right? What should I do if the Asian Club Champions League, Asian Winners Cup, Asian Super Cup and Asian Cup matches are matched? Neither the guys in Xi'an nor the AFC will agree?"
"The Asian Club Champions League, Asian Winners Cup, and Asian Super Cup are all useless. In this way, we form the East Asian Super League and let West Asian and Central Asia form the West Asian Super League.
After the entire season ends, the top four teams in the Eastern Super League and the Western Super League will each compete in the quarterfinals cross-elimination match. The Eastern Super League will be the first to play against the Western Super League, and the Eastern Super League will be the fourth to play against the Western Super League. Then there will be the semi-finals and finals.
It turns out that the Asian Cup is going well. The AFC has to agree, and if it doesn’t agree, we have to agree. If we join forces to win over other countries in Southeast Asia, then no one has to be afraid. When your World Cup venue is built, you don’t have to worry about maintenance and operation issues.”
"Well, Mr. Kura, will you discuss the broadcasting rights and advertising agency matters?"
"The TV stations in your country are good, but they are only very famous in your own country, and they are far from other countries. I just bought Star TV from Mr. Murdoch of News Corporation. In two to three years, I will invest more than US$10 billion to build Star TV into a super TV station in East and South Asia.
For this reason, I am negotiating the acquisition of Hong Kong TVB and Asia TV, Thailand's iTV, and South Korea's SBS. At the same time, I also want to acquire or invest in a Neon TV station, Tokyo Broadcasting or Asahi TV station.
Therefore, the overall broadcasting rights are best in the hands of Star TV. Then the TV stations of each country can purchase the broadcasting rights for individual games. For example, if you Neon has five teams participating in the competition, it will be fine if one TV station buys one. It will be useless for you to buy the matches of teams in other countries. The audiences in the country are not very interested.
As for advertising, it is just an agency right. At most, it can cost 10% of the fee and it has to be paid half of it to the Super League Management Committee. There is no such thing as much money.
The focus network platform connects the upstream and downstream of the advertising industry. From production to delivery, the whole process of assembly line-based intimate service can definitely save a lot of manpower and material resources. This is the company under my name. I have to try something, and I have to get some benefits. I can't do it hard. In the end, you can get all the honors and interests."
"Since that's the case, then okay, but we have to agree first that we will negotiate the renewal of the broadcast fee in 5 years."
"That's sure. We will follow the Premier League in terms of TV broadcasting. We will calculate the bonuses of each team based on the ranking, number of broadcasting games, and the scale of revenue. In the future, these broadcasting fees will only be more or less.
So, when we are in this Super League, we must pay attention to reputation. Don’t do those fake balls and black whistles, as cheating is awesome, so I ask each team to pay a fair competition deposit. Of course, the investment funds under my name can help invest and increase the value.
With the rapid growth of the economic scale of our three countries, the value of our Super League is immeasurable. You Neon has always been the second largest economy in the world. China has another ten years to enter the top three. South Korea is a little worse, but it is almost the top ten. The world's largest economy, the United States' football is not good at all. So, our Eastern Super League will not be much worse than the Premier League or something."
"Okay, we have to have a meeting to study it. Here we will express our opinions first and fully agree with this matter. We will do our best. The guys in Xiya have a lot of tricks every year. It's still far from playing games. You have a good plan. If the value of the Dongchao is high, we will also benefit a lot."
"Then I'll wait for your good news. As long as the three of us reach an agreement, other countries will not have any opinions at all. They have to hold back their opinions." Cang Yaozu said.
"Haha, although Mr. Kurakura is young, he really has his own ideas. This plan for the East Super League is indeed very beneficial to us. It seems that we have to speed up the pace and strive to start the East Super League on time after this year's World Cup."
"By the way, our league time must be adjusted. We have 38 games in a season. I mean to be on par with the Premier League and try to avoid double games a week." Cang Yaozu reminded.
After finalizing the matter of the East Super League with the three old foxes of the Neon Football Association, Cang Yaozu relaxed and operating the East Super League well could also make Cang Yaozu more conveniently enter the interior of Neon and South Korea. Star TV stations, TV networks, and film and television advertising businesses can be quickly deployed.
On this day, Cang Yaozu had another variety show to participate in, an interview program on NHK comprehensive channel. Cang Yaozu rushed to the recording hall and found that the crew of the movie "Midnight Bell" produced by Toho Movie was recorded at the same time.
This movie is a rare and excellent live-action movie in Neon. This movie will be released at the end of January and has a certain intersection with "Titanic", but fortunately, the two are not the same type of film. But speaking of it, horror movies and romance movies are quite suitable for couples to watch together, well, you know.
Kura Yoko also saw the goddess Matsushima Nako on the scene. She is the heroine of this film. Oh, the heroine is not Sadako, but the female reporter.
Matsushima Nako is the current queen of Japanese dramas. Although she has not starred in "Spicy Teacher GTO" with Takashi Omachi, she has watched this drama several times. Well, there is also Shun Oguri.
Cang Yaozu: "Songdao Jiang, I grew up watching your works. You have been living in my memories. Can you hug you?"
Nanako: "Hey, who are you? Why do I live in your memories? I live well in reality. Moreover, I am older than you. You can't call me Songshima Jiang, but you should call me Ou Naisan."
Cang Yaozu: "Ah, I'm not used to calling you something like Sang. I always feel like I'll call women old. In my heart, Songdo Jiang will always be 18 years old, and I'm already twenty-one, so you are Songdo Jiang."
Nanako: "Hmph, you can talk. Are you an actor on the crew of "Titanic"? I've watched this movie and I don't remember you."
Cang Yaozu: "Songdao Jiang, I am the investor of this movie. Well, recently I have acquired and built some theaters on Neon and formed a theater chain, so Director Cameron asked me to come and stand for him. Actually, I feel like I'm just here to make some soy sauce."
Nanako: "Wow, you're quite funny? Are you a movie investor? What money can you have at such a young age? How much did you invest in this shipwreck film?"
Cang Yaozu: "What's wrong with being young? Can't you be rich? I invested $50 million in this shipwreck film."
Nanako: "How much? 50 million? US dollars? Do you have so much money? Are you losing money?"
Cang Yaozu: "How can I lose? The movie distribution rights of the United States and China are mine. I can make almost $200 million. I spent $100 million to win the DVD distribution rights and 3D movie reproduction rights of this movie. I can make more money in the future."
Nanako: "How could you make so much money? You are not bragging at such a young age."
Cang Yaozu: "My dear teacher Dongyue, although I am young, I never lie to women."
Nanako: "What kind of teacher Dongyue? What kind of the hell is this?"
Cang Yaozu: "Have you ever seen the comic "Spicy Teacher GTO"? I think you are very suitable to play Dong Yuezi in it."
Nanako: "I rarely read comics. Dong Yuezuki Azusa? What kind of character is he?"
"It's afternoon now, I'll take you to find Hiroshi Fujisawa. He should be in Tokyo. I'll ask someone to ask him for his address. I'll take you to find him and ask you to take over the role of Dongyuezu." After that, Kura Yokozu pulled Naoko Matsushima to the outside of the TV station. Their program had been recorded.
Nanako Matsushima shook her arm, broke free from Kura Yokozu's claws, raised her volume a little, and said, "Why are you crazy? How can I decide what role I want to take on so casually? My current movie "Midnight Bell" will definitely be a big hit at the box office. I still lack roles at that time?"
"It's okay, if you don't accept it, you won't accept it. Anyway, I'm definitely not the one I regret. Whether you accept this role or not, let's go and have fun with Hiroshi Fujisawa. You won't forget that I'm a movie investor, right? If the film and television adaptation rights of "Spicy Teacher GTO" are still there, then I'll buy it. If it's not in his hands, let's just regard it as acquaintance."
Kura Yokoto had people who collected information from some cartoonists in the neon comics industry very early on, including those who had not yet drawn a hot work, and Fujisawa Yuki is naturally also collected.
Some time ago, Cang Yaozu asked the hexahedral agency to invest in the acquisition of animation or film adaptation rights for some comic works, but because hexahedral is a foreign company, it has no foundation in Neon, and has not made much progress.
Cang Yaozu took out the phone number, found the phone number of the person in charge of Neon Hexahedral Company, and dialed it directly. Cang Yaozu asked about the acquisition of the film and television adaptation rights of "Spicy Teachers GTO". As a result, the person in charge of the Neon Hexahedral agency said that although Fujisawa was the author, the copyright was not in his hands, and he could only share the royalties.
"Mao Spicy Teacher GTO" was serialized on "Weekly Boy Magazine", so the copyright is all in the hands of Kotanshe. Kotanshe has sold the animation adaptation rights of "Mao Spicy Teacher GTO", and the film and television adaptation rights are still under negotiation. Now there is another buyer, namely Kansai TV Station, and the other party has a strong intention to buy.
Kotanshe seems to have used the hexahedral company as a tool to raise prices, and has been using the hexahedral company's quotations to increase the price of film and television adaptation rights. Kurao Yuzu asked him what the quotation was now, and the other party told him it was 250 million yen.
Kura Yokoto said to Matsushima Nanako: "The copyright has not been sold yet, Kotanshe is still waiting to be sold, so I have opened 250 million yen here."
"What are you going to do?" asked Matsushima Nanako.
Cang Yaozu: "Let's go together and just offer a price to smash the copyright. However, I have a concern. Can you help me think of a way?"
Matsuda Naiko asked, "What are the concerns? You don't have enough cash?"
Kura Yoshizu: "Of course the cash is enough, it's okay for you to play Dongyuezumi. I like Takashi Omachi, the actor who plays the male lead Eiki Hiroshi, but this person is a bad person and is very popular with girls.
And you are very good at having a teacher-student relationship. I am afraid that you will fall in love with him and cannot extricate yourself. Then I will become a sucker. I spent money to invite you to film, but I lost my wife and my army."
Nanako: "Haha, I'm not someone you, what you think about is too unreliable. The first thing you need to consider in investment should be risks and returns. I think, according to your investment method, it will sooner or later go bankrupt.
Besides, are you still afraid of competition? If Takashi Omachi is so outstanding, then I will have to contact him even more. Maybe he is my true destiny."
Cang Yaozu: "Oh, look, look, I'm really afraid of anything I'm going to do. It seems that I have to change the actors."
Nanako: "Wow, look at your stingyness. You are too unconfident. Can't you compare with Takashi Omachi?"
Kura Yokotozu: "Matsushima, are you very proud now? Humph, what's the point? Amamachi Takashi is not as young as me, nor as handsome as me, nor as rich as me, and has no comparison at all. Unless you promise to be my woman, I can let you star in this comic adaptation drama together."
Nanako: "Haha, how is that possible? I'm not a casual woman."
Cang Yaozu: "Then I can only star with you. If that happens, I can't film this year. I have to participate in the World Cup this summer. I am the main player of the national team."
Nanako: "Wow, you are still a football player. What is your identity? You are not a treasure boy, right?"
Cang Yaozu: "That's necessary. I have a lot of identities. In a few months, I will be the husband of a princess in a country."
Nanako: "Do you know why Wagyu is so expensive? Because Wagyu is blown to death by you."
Cang Yaozu: "I said that I will not lie to girls."
Nanako: "I can't verify what you said. Actually, I'm not young anymore and want to get married, but I haven't acted enough, so I want to act in a few more movies and TV."
Cang Yaozu: "You can also act after getting married, but no matter how you act, you can't do fake roles or have bed and kissing scenes. If you do these, you can act as you like. I can also give you a script and invest in it."
Nanako: "I didn't agree to be your woman, why did you discuss life after marriage with me? It's really inexplicable."
"Songdao Jiang, I love you, I can't live without you, so I decided that I will always follow you." Cang Yaozu said confidently.
Chapter completed!