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Chapter 647 Spending 120 Billion Dollars a Year! ([-] updates per day, please subscribe~)

Hearing that Wu Jianye wanted a loan, Linda and Johnson breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, so that they would not have to dilute their shares in Phantom Entertainment.

It's just that they didn't notice what Wu Jianye said was to get a loan from the bank first.
"Then which TV network do you like?" Linda asked, since Phantom Entertainment is going to get a loan now, then Wu Jianye must already have the TV network he likes!
Wu Jianye said surprisingly: "Contact ABC, if possible, I hope that after one year, Phantom Entertainment can become the owner of ABC!"

ABC, CBS, and NBC synthesize the three major North American commercial broadcasts.

In the spring of 1941, the FCC decided that NBC could not own both the Red and Blue networks.

1943年10月，爱德华诺布尔以800万元买下蓝色广播网(拥有116座附属广播电台)，1945年6月15日正式使用美国广播公司的名称。

In February 1953, it was purchased by the United Paramount Theater Company for US$2 million to form the ABC-Paramount Theater Company. Leonard Gordonson, the former chairman of the United Paramount Theater Company, served as the chairman of the new company.

In April 1965, it was renamed the American Broadcasting Corporation.

In March 1985, Metropolitan Communications was acquired for $3 billion, and the company was changed to Metropolitan American Broadcasting Corporation, but generally still uses its original name.

In the late 70s, the ratings ranked first among the three major broadcasting companies for several consecutive years.

The company is headquartered in New York.

The company operates 8 stations in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Fresno and San Francisco, and has 220 affiliated stations.

The company also operates AM and FM radio stations and has several affiliated radio stations.

At the same time, ESPN, a well-known sports channel in North America, also belongs to the ABC TV network.

If there is no Wu Jianye, by 1995, it will be acquired by Disney
Linda looked at Wu Jianye in surprise. She didn't expect Wu Jianye to have such a big appetite, and he fell in love with ABC as soon as he made a move.

"Wanting to win ABC is not an easy task. Now ABC's valuation is definitely close to tens of billions of dollars. Even Phantom Entertainment and bank loans, it is impossible to get so many loans!" Linda endured Can't stop talking.

Wu Jianye chuckled, and said: "If the bank can't get it out, it doesn't mean that I can't get it out personally, and we don't have to take full control of ABC at the beginning, we can slowly infiltrate it. If you don't want to lose your shares in Phantom Entertainment Dilution, we have to work hard on the acquisition!"

Can Wu Jianye come up with tens of billions of dollars in cash now?
In fact, if Wu Jianye gave up the unification of East and West Germany and the layout of the oil crisis, he could really take it out, but it was impossible for Wu Jianye to give up these two projects that could bring him huge benefits.

However, the reunification of East and West Germany and the oil crisis happened this year, and the acquisition of ABC was not a simple matter. It is impossible to negotiate all of them without a year and a half of negotiations. Wu Jianye is not in a hurry at all.

Moreover, Phantom Entertainment not only wants to acquire the North American TV network, but also has four other acquisitions and two constructions at the same time!

Linda and Johnson's expressions became a little ugly. Just now they thought that Wu Jianye would not continue to inject capital into Phantom Entertainment, but now Wu Jianye still wanted to inject capital into Phantom Entertainment.

Wu Jianye glanced at them and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't choose to invest in Phantom Entertainment unless it is absolutely necessary. Now let's study how to acquire ABC!"

Linda and Johnson nodded. Wu Jianye understood that the acquisition of ABC would not be resolved in a short period of time. They naturally understood that the negotiation with ABC was destined to take a long time. Among them, if Phantom Entertainment's Develop all good words.

For example, Phantom Entertainment's movies continue to sell well. At that time, Phantom's market valuation will rise again. When Phantom wants to borrow money, it will definitely be able to borrow more funds.

"According to the data, if you want to buy ABC in the hands of Metropolitan Communications, the most critical person is that the major shareholder of Metropolis Communications is Buffett, who holds 15% of the shares in Metropolis Communications!" Linda After sorting out his emotions, he said.

When Metropolitan Communications acquired ABC, its assets were only a quarter of that of ABC. The reason why it was able to acquire ABC was the help of Buffett.

So now if Phantom Entertainment wants to win ABC, it has to negotiate with Buffett!
Wu Jianye nodded and said, "I know about this, so let's talk to Buffett first!"

There is no need to go into too much detail about Buffett, who is known as the stock god.

However, for Phantom Entertainment, there are actually some advantages, that is, Buffett's focus will never be on entertainment.

Otherwise, Buffett will not sell ABC to Disney in the future, and in the later period, he will slowly sell Disney's shares and completely withdraw from Disney.

second acquisition.
In fact, it's not just the second acquisition, but the remaining four acquisitions are all related to the acquisition of sports projects. Since Wu Jianye wants to build Phantom Entertainment into a large-scale media group, how can he let go of sports projects? Acquisition.

This is not only related to Phantom Entertainment, but also cold water drinks in the later stage, LUCK Sports plans to enter the European and American markets!
It is precisely because of this that the subsequent acquisition will not be just the acquisition of Phantom Entertainment, but the joint acquisition of Cold Water Drinks, LUCK Sports and Phantom Entertainment.

As the world's largest sports football, Wu Jianye definitely cannot give up.

In the information that Linda handed over, Wu Jianye identified Manchester United in League One!

At this time, England has not officially established the Premier League, so now the top league in England is the League One!

In fact, compared to Manchester United, Wu Jianye wants to buy Fiorentina in Serie A!
After all, Florence once owned Zhang Jun (a big tribute to Lin Hai Tingtao here, it was the first football novel Huangshan read, and Zhang Jun cried when he retired!)!

But Wu Jianye is still a businessman after all, so he set his sights on Manchester United. In another time and space, Manchester United's net worth has reached 40 billion pounds!

After all, the Premier League is the commercial league with the highest commercial value!
And buying Manchester United now is definitely a situation where you can make money without losing money. Even if you don’t know football, you still know the glory of Manchester United. Now Ferguson has joined Manchester United, but Manchester United’s performance this season is not very good. At the beginning of this year, Manchester United even wanted to fire Ferguson.
The most important thing is that Manchester United is not worth much now. According to the purchase price given by Linda, the market value of Manchester United at this time is only tens of millions of dollars.

So now is a very suitable time to acquire Manchester United!
In fact, for the Phantom, it is difficult to acquire the remaining three projects, namely the football team, baseball team and basketball team that have great influence in North America!

In particular, the basketball club that Wu Jianye designated to acquire is the Los Angeles Lakers!
After all, Old Buss regards the Lakers as his own family business, and the difficulty of buying the Lakers in their hands is no less than buying the ABC TV network!
"It's not easy to buy the Lakers!" Linda said.

Wu Jianye nodded and said: "Of course I know this, but as long as the price is in place, I believe that Old Buss will not be tempted, even if he likes the Lakers again!"

Although the acquisition of the Lakers is very difficult, it does not mean that there is no room for maneuverability. Regarding the funds involved in the acquisition of ABC, the money involved in the acquisition of the Lakers can almost be ignored.

Although some data show that in 1979, the old Bass bought the Lakers for $6750 million, in fact, this is not simply the funds used to buy the Lakers. There are three targets in this acquisition, namely Los Angeles Home of the Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings (ice hockey team), and the Lakers at the time!
Among them, only $1800 million was spent on the Lakers!

Although it has been nearly 79 years since 11, and the market value of the Lakers must have doubled several times, according to the latest NBA team market value rankings, the market value of the Lakers is only about 3500 million US dollars.

Of course, if Wu Jianye really wants to buy the Lakers, this price is definitely impossible. If the Lakers' home court is added, the price will exceed 1.5 million US dollars!
Money is not a problem for Wu Jianye, the main thing is how to win the old Bass!
"Communicate with Old Buss first and ask him if he has any intention of selling the Lakers!" Wu Jianye said.

Wu Jianye's idea of ​​buying the Lakers is to give courtesy first and then soldiers. If the old Bass can agree to sell the Lakers, then there is nothing to say. If he does not agree, then he can only use means.

The current net worth of Old Buss is only about 10 billion US dollars. What he is most famous in Los Angeles is not his sports business, but his real estate business.

Wu Jianye on Buffett's side couldn't use capital means to suppress it, but that doesn't mean Old Buss couldn't!

Johnson nodded beside him and said, "Leave this matter to me. My father has some business cooperation with Old Bath!"

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Okay then, the negotiation team from Cold Water Beverage and LUCK Sports will come over to join you!"

As for the acquisition of the football team and the baseball team, Wu Jianye also handed over to Johnson to be in charge!

Finally, there are two constructions about Phantom Entertainment!
"First of all, Phantom Entertainment, as one of the seven major studios in Hollywood, is imminent in building its own studio, and this matter must start in the second half of this year!" Wu Jianye ordered.

Although Phantom Entertainment has signed contracts with Universal and [-]th Century Fox to use the studio, it doesn't mean that they can sit back and relax. Having their own studio is almost a sign of a large studio.

With the development of Phantom Entertainment, in the next few years, it is bound to become a thorn in the side of several major studios, and Wu Jianye is not at ease if this lifeline is handed over to others!
What's more, with the development of film technology in the future, studio shooting will also become the mainstream. In particular, Phantom Entertainment holds several major IP series, which requires a huge studio support. It can be said that the construction of a studio has become a part of Phantom The most important means of development!
Linda naturally had no objection to this decision, and he naturally knew the importance of building his own studio.

"This matter is already in preparation. In the early stage, 25 studios will be built first, and it is expected to be completed in two years. The overall plan is a total of 45 studios, with a total investment of more than 5 million US dollars!" Linda replied !

Then Linda handed the specific plan to Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye only took a cursory glance and agreed to Linda's plan. It was impossible for him to follow up on this kind of thing.

"The last one is about the construction of Phantom Studios!" Wu Jianye said
Compared with the model of Disneyland, the future development of Phantom is more suitable for the model of Universal Studios. Several major IPs in hand will become the main sightseeing park of Phantom Studios in the future.

"Actually, we don't need to be so anxious about the construction of Phantom Studios!" Linda suggested.

Although Wu Jianye repeatedly emphasized to her the importance of Phantom Studios, in Linda's view, the construction of Phantom Studios needs a theme park to set it off, but the shortcoming of Phantom Entertainment today is that It turns out that the movie theme parks they can build are still very scarce.

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Don't worry now, you should worry in the future, so let's enclose the land first, and then we will build the "Jurassic Park" theme park and "Terminator" theme park first!"

"As for the rest, with the development of Phantom Entertainment, just build it slowly!"

Wu Jianye naturally knew about Linda's shortcomings, so he didn't object to Linda's suggestion across the board.

But even so, Linda still hesitated: "Wu, you have to know that neither "Jurassic Park" nor "Terminator 2" has been released yet. If we start building these two movies now If there is a problem with the box office of these two films in the future, then our losses will not only be due to the investment in the two films!"

Wu Jianye did not show displeasure because of Linda's different opinions, and was even a little relieved, because Linda considered the issue from the position of the president of Phantom Entertainment.

But what has to be built has to be built.

"Don't worry about this, don't you forget that when "The Love of Ghosts" was released, didn't everyone not like this movie?"

Linda said in embarrassment: "Even so, I think what we are doing now is a bit too radical. You have to know that if you add our acquisition of the ABC TV network, the investment of Phantom Entertainment this year will exceed 120 billion US dollars. , With such a huge income, we have to be more cautious!"

Wu Jianye thought about it for a while, and knew that Linda would not let go easily if he did not come up with some fundamental solutions, and Wu Jianye also did not want to use his power to overwhelm others and ask Linda to do something wrong. Very good investment!

"How about this, Xiangjiang's Fengge Media will guarantee a loan of 3 million US dollars from Standard Chartered Bank for Phantom Entertainment, as the start-up capital of Phantom Studios, and at the same time, you and I will sign a contract on the box office of "Jurassic Park" The gambling agreement, if "Jurassic Park" does not get a box office of more than 3 million U.S. dollars in North America, the investment in Phantom Studios will be borne by me alone, and it has nothing to do with Phantom Entertainment!"

(End of this chapter)