America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 330 Marriage Agreement
AMC TV station, originally controlled by the American Rainbow Media Group, is a cable TV station headquartered in New York.

Its full name is American Classic Movies Cable TV.

It can probably be ranked among the top ten in the ratings share of cable TV stations in the United States.

If wireless TV stations are included, they won't even be ranked in the top [-].

AMC was acquired by Smith Media last year, and then invested heavily in new TV series and programs.

There is also the expansion of company personnel, the addition of new advanced shooting equipment, the replacement of company shooting venues, and so on.

It also received support from MGM's film library, and suddenly had the copyright support of nearly 5000 movies and more than [-] episodes of TV series from MGM.

These strengths have made AMC TV station the bottom of the six major cable TV stations all of a sudden.

It has become a strong contender for the top three ratings of cable TV stations in the United States.

Several large-investment TV dramas launched successively after it all achieved very good ratings.

Among them, "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad", their L+ ratings on the day and L+7 ratings are very good.

L+ day ratings and L+7 ratings are a way of calculating the ratings of American TV dramas.

L+ ratings on the day refers to the single-day broadcast rate of each subsequent episode after the first episode.

Generally, more than 40 person-times are regarded as passing, and more than 80 person-times are regarded as excellent.

More than 200 million person-times is considered a hit, and more than 500 million person-times is a phenomenal hit.

"Friends" set a record of 1996 million viewers on January 1, 28.

This is the current record of American TV dramas, and no one can surpass it.

This is also the status symbol of "Friends" in American TV series.

L+7 is the sum of the ratings of a TV series in the following seven days after it is broadcast on the Internet.

The number of "Friends" in this regard is 2.9 million, which is also a record that no one can break.

AMC's "The Sopranos" created L+ with 200 million viewers on the day, and "Breaking Bad" had 280 million viewers.

These data can already be ranked in the top ten in this year's TV series.

It's the hit of the year.

able to come up with such results.

AMC's TV drama department is also worthy of Smith Media's heavy investment.

Except for TV shows.

AMC TV station has also made good achievements in variety shows.

Bear Grist, who was specially invited from England as supported by Abel.

The former special forces retired member, he hosted the reality show "Wilderness Survival", which received good ratings.

As of now, one episode per week has been released, and there have been exactly seven episodes in total.

The total ratings of the seven episodes were 2500 million, with an average of 357 million per episode.

This ratings can already be considered excellent in the big box of variety shows.

Of course, compared with the top variety shows, it is completely incomparable.

After all, talk shows are also considered variety shows.
The talk show has always been the type with the highest ratings among various programs in the United States.

For example, the Oprah talk show, its highest single-episode ratings reached an exaggerated 6000 million people, and the average single-episode ratings were around 2000 million.

If Master Bei eats two more truckloads of blasters, he can't keep up with Oprah's big mouth.

Within a year, Smith Media injected $[-] million into AMC.

The average ratings of AMC TV station has increased by 158.69% compared with when it was first acquired by Smith Media.

The increase in advertising revenue of TV stations is even more exaggerated, from 1456 million U.S. dollars for the whole year last year to 5968 million U.S. dollars in nine months now.

The increase rate is more than 300%.

Although it is not as good as NBC TV, they easily spend hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars in advertising revenue.

But this increase can be regarded as gratifying visible to the naked eye.

In addition, due to the increase in ratings, the increased share of cable membership fees.

In the past nine months, the total revenue of AMC TV has exceeded [-] million US dollars.

You must know that before being acquired by Smith Media, AMC TV had not even had a total revenue of [-] million U.S. dollars for three consecutive years.

Although this year's loss is certain, it can be regarded as a good start.

This is enough to prove that Richard Plepler, the general manager of AMC TV station that Abel hired, is indeed a very good producer of program content.

Under the charge of the director and chief producer, AMC TV station is in good condition.

Even without Abel's capital injection at this time.

It can also maintain a very good development range.

It's just that after Abel failed to buy NBC TV station.

His attention and eyes were on AMC TV station again.

Under his renewed emphasis, AMC TV launched reform and expansion.

Michael Ovitz, who resigned from CAA, is one of the former Hollywood kings.

His new job is to join AMC TV station and start to charge for the laying of AMC TV network.

A few days ago, AMC Television and Bloomberg's seven television stations jointly formed a new company called AMC Television Group.

Bloomberg put his seven TV stations into this group through the franchise model and owns 10% of the group's shares.

Abel and Smith Media jointly injected $50 billion into the company, plus the original AMC TV station.

AMC TV Group's current shareholding ratio is Smith Media 45%, Bloomberg 10%, Abel 25%, and Smith Family Office 20%.

With Michael Ovitz as Chairman and Richard Plepler as CEO.

amc television group started its own expansion plan.

The first step of the plan is to swallow at least 1300 of the more than [-] independent regional TV stations in the East Coast area.

The second step is to develop into the central region and the west coast.

The third is to radiate to the whole United States.

In the end, it is the beginning to go to the world, or to go to the world from the beginning, but the strength will not be great.

According to Abel's vision, AMC TV Group can at least not lose to FOX, which is the TV network under News Corporation.

FOX is currently at the bottom of the four major TV networks, but it already has 29 directly affiliated TV stations and 228 affiliated TV stations, covering 95% of the population in the United States and more than 8 million viewers around the world.

If the amc TV network wants to achieve this goal, Abel estimates that it will cost about 150-250 billion US dollars, and it will take 4-8 years.

After failing to buy NBC TV station, Abel directly put the plan into practice.

Michael Ovitz, the founder of CAA with strong public relations ability.

It's the lobbyist that Abel used to hook up and take down those independent TV stations across the country.

If this step of the plan can be achieved, then even if NBC is not needed in the future.

Of course, if there is an opportunity to acquire at that time, he will actually do it.

But that's all for the future.

Abel spent three days with his mother and Charlize on the Smith farm.

It was three days before he set off and left Smith Farm.

He didn't go to the small town of Sunny Hills, he didn't go to see his PMC company.

Instead, I went to the capital of Texas first, a dark blue in a deep red.

Austin is located in Southwest Central Texas.

Since the middle of the 20th century, Austin's semiconductor and computer industries have developed rapidly.

In addition, the cost of housing is much lower than that of Silicon Valley, attracting a large number of high-tech talents and enterprises, and becoming a well-known high-tech center.

That part of California is known as Silicon Valley.

This part of Texas, namely Austin, is known as "Silicon Hill" or "Silicon Hill".

Famous semiconductor companies like Freescale and Dell have their headquarters here.

In addition, IBM, Intel, Cisco, 3M, etc. also have important local branches.

At the same time, it is also the famous "Live Music Capital of the World" in the United States. There are many famous musicians, music venues and music events. The city's per capita share of music venues ranks first in the United States.

In fact, from the feature behind Austin, we can know why this place is blue.

In the United States, it's literary and artistic.Whether it is Hollywood, Grammy, or other art practitioners, they basically support the donkey party.

Austin, with this kind of cultural atmosphere, naturally favors the donkey party.

It is incompatible with other surrounding areas, and a rebellious psychology appears after a long time.

Even if he didn't want to be blue, he became dark blue under the pressure of the surrounding crimson.

Abel's "Smith" Boeing 747, on October 10th.

Landing at Austin's Bergstrom International Airport.

The airport is 5 miles (8 kilometers) southeast of Austin, the capital of Texas, and is the largest airport in Texas.

Austin isn't even as populous as Fort Worth.

Fort Worth has a population of more than 100 million, but Austin has only six 10,000+ people.

Six to 10,000+ people are distributed in hundreds of square kilometers, how big can such a city be?

Austin is the same as Fort Worth, except for the downtown CBD.

In terms of streetscapes and high-rise buildings, the rest of Austin is similar to some cities outside the fourth tier after China in 2015.

In terms of infrastructure and roads, many places are even inferior.

When he came out of the airport, Abel saw the person who came to pick him up.

It was Marvin Pierce Bush, Herbert's youngest son, whom he had seen last at the White House.

That is, little Laura's only real uncle.

"Hey~ Marvin, good afternoon."

Abel walked over with a smile and hugged the smiling Marvin.

"Good afternoon." Marvin also responded with a smile, "My father and your grandfather have been waiting for you. Let's go quickly!!"

"No problem." Abel smiled.

No need to wait for Abel's Cadillac monster to be transported from the airport.

There was already another brand new Cadillac monster, parked outside, waiting for Abel.

As a retired former U.S. President.

Herbert also enjoys the protection of the US Secret Service, as well as other corresponding benefits.

Including an annual pension of 20 US dollars, as well as life-long top free medical and security services.

As the leader of the world's only superpower, the President of the United States has a very high assassination rate.

As of George took office, the United States has experienced 45 generals.

Six of them had a clear history of being assassinated, and four of them were assassinated to death.

That is to say, almost one out of every eight U.S. generals has been assassinated, and one out of every ten U.S. generals has been assassinated to death, which shows how dangerous this profession is.

In addition, Herbert also has the son of the current Grand Commander.

Protecting his Secret Service staff is no worse than when he was in office.

Naturally, there is also a top security modified car like the Cadillac Monster as his usual travel car.

Like Abel's car, the Stars and Stripes cannot be planted at ordinary times.

But in terms of quality it is the same as George sat.

After sitting in the carriage with Marvin, the two started talking.

"Abe, you've done a good job. You've kept me busy like never before," Marvin Pierce said with a chuckle.

Abel smiled slightly, he roughly knew what Marvin Pierce meant.

"Did Herbert agree?" he asked curiously.

Marvin Pierce shrugged, "Neil has already been persuaded by you. If father disagrees, Neil will definitely be unhappy if he doesn't say anything on the surface. In addition, we all feel that your plan is feasible to a certain extent. "

"That's good."

Abel smiled and said, "Even if Nanier went to California, he helped the shrub family expand their territory. It is good for everyone."

"That's right." Marvin Pierce nodded with a smile.

At the last White House dinner.Abel suggested to the Bush brothers that Neil Bush go to California for development.

Subsequent feedback will be sent back to Herbert.

Herbert held a meeting democratically within the family.

The end result is to support Neil to go to California.

Whether you can succeed is one thing, but whether you can go or not is another.

If Neil can succeed there, it will undoubtedly be a very good thing for the shrub family.

It will give the Texas super rich shrubs a chance to spread their influence to the California area.

Neil was originally in charge of the family business and business with Marvin Pierce.

Among them, Neil is mainly responsible for oil companies, and Marvin Pierce is responsible for the investment field.

Now Neil has to start to get on the right track, and the business part all falls on Marvin Pierce.

It must be tiring to be tired once, but it is also a good thing for Marvin Pierce.

The business of the entire bush family, plus the support of the three older brothers in Zhengzhi.

Even if Marvin Pierce doesn't go into business in the future, he can still live happily.

And in the future, the new generation of the shrub family will grow up, and some business talents will come out.

Then when the time is right, Marvin Pierce can choose the same path as his brothers.

After all, he is the youngest of the four brothers, ten years younger than his elder brother.

So even though he was busy, Marvin Pierce also benefited a lot.

The two chatted for a while, but the vehicle did not drive to downtown Austin.

Instead, when it was three miles away from Austin, it turned a corner and drove onto a small road.

Drove about another half hour.

The convoy came to the outskirts of Austin, on the northwest side of the town of Franklin, at the gate of a manor two miles away.

Through the car window in the car, Abel saw white wooden fences, pointed maroon roofs, green lawns, and various designs full of old European Victorian sentiments.

The convoy stopped in the manor's stone-paved parking lot.

Marvin Pierce got out of the car, and Abel got out of the car.

Under the leadership of the fourth uncle Laura.

Abel entered the Victorian villa through the front courtyard with a large green lawn.

Walking into the front hall filled with various murals and oil paintings, Marvin Pierce led Abel through a long corridor.

Finally behind the villa, in another lawn.

He saw the Herbert couple and Alex couple who were having afternoon tea.

"Hey, good noon. Dear Abel. Hey Alex, look who's coming! Your precious grandson is here."

After seeing Abel, Herbert smiled and raised his hand to greet him from a long distance away, and talked to Alex next to him.

The old shrub looks ruddy, in good spirits, and full of energy.

It doesn't look like it's about to recuperate.

"Don't make excuses, even if Abel comes. We have to wait until we finish this game!" Alex said without raising his head.

Abel smiled and waved to Herbert in response.

He walked quickly to the old people and glanced at the table between Alex and Herbert.

A pair of heavy chess is placed on it, and the chess game is moving at a critical point.

Among them, White seems to be losing, and Herbert takes White.

Abel smiled and hugged and kissed the standing grandma Arya and little Laura's grandma Barbara.

"Crash" sounded.

Herbert "accidentally" bumped into the table, and the pieces on the chessboard overturned the table.

"Flower oil!"

Alex cursed, stood up amidst Herbert's laughter, smiled and hugged Abel.

A servant brought a small table and two chairs.

Abe and Marvin Pierce sat down at a third small table.

Another maid brought afternoon tea, snacks, and parasols.

South Texas is a subtropical region. Austin is in south Texas, and sometimes it doesn’t snow in winter.

In Austin in mid-October, the sun at noon can make people dizzy, and it would be impossible without a parasol.

"Neil has already gone to California." After sitting down, Herbert picked up a coffee cup, sipped gently and said softly.

"The sooner it passes, the better. Time waits for no one, and there is only one year left." Abel smiled.

Everyone around knew what the two were discussing.

At this time, they all quieted down, watching the conversation between the old and the young.

"Is it too hasty?"

"Neil doesn't even know the situation over there."

"It's a bit hasty." Abel picked up a piece of Gorachi pie from the dessert plate on the small table, grabbed it and put it in his mouth.

Gorachi is a dough-based pastry with different fillings.

The filling can be fruit, cheese, etc.

It tastes sweet and sweet. After the standard one is improved, it is very in line with the American super-sweet taste of Americans.

"But even if it is a bit hasty. There is still a certain chance of success next year. Even if it is not successful, I don't think there will be too much loss."

After finishing the dessert, I took a sip of the bitter original coffee.

Abel said again: "We failed in 2002. We can do it again in 2004. Neil is still young, and I am still young. I think we have a lot of opportunities to try. As long as we can succeed once, it will be worth the money!"

Hearing what he said, Herbert nodded in satisfaction.

The founder of the bush family went to glory and looked sideways at his wife.

The old grandmother of the bush family who smiled and didn't speak the whole time.

George's mother, Ms. Barbara Pierce Bush, after she understood what her husband meant.

She smiled and spoke.

"My dear child."

The old woman looked at Abel kindly and tenderly, "What do you think of little Laura?"

Abel thought to himself that the topic was coming.

He glanced at the expressions of everyone around him.

In Grandma Arya's face, Abel saw worry; in Grandpa Alex's face, Abel saw earnestness.

On the faces of the three bushes, Abel saw anticipation.

He thought of little Laura's sweet smile, the face that was extremely gentle in front of him, and always whispered softly.

And when we parted in New York half a month ago, he clutched his little butt and ran into school like a bunny.

Abel smiled and said, "I think she is very good and a good candidate to be a wife. Dear Barbara, and Herbert. Although little Laura is not here, neither are respected Neil and Sunny. But I still want to say, I want to be the husband of little Laura."

As soon as he said these words.

The surrounding air was suddenly filled with joy.

Grandmother Arya's face immediately burst into a smile.

Grandfather Alex also opened his mouth and laughed.

Marvin Pierce beamed, and Herbert beamed.

Barbara also smiled and said, "That's great, that's great."

(End of this chapter)