giants of the era

Chapter 173 Meeting Michael Jackson for the First Time

Ted Turner was frustrated that no one was working with him to build CNN.

At this moment, he is hesitating in his heart, whether to sell all valuable things and invest in the construction of CNN?
It's a big gamble!
If you win, your value will skyrocket; if you lose, you will lose everything.

It's also a tough choice!

Ted Turner hesitated for a long time, still unable to make a decision!

Ring Ring Ring! ! !
At this time, the phone rang.

Ted Turner was suddenly awakened by the ringing of the phone. He walked over to answer the phone, but unexpectedly it was a pleasant surprise.

"Mr. Ted Turner, hello, I'm Chronos Li's secretary. Do you have time? Mr. Li wants to talk to you about CNN." Dongfang Yuqin said unhurriedly.

Ted Turner was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "I have time, I have time anytime!!!" He paused and asked, "When can Mr. Li meet?"

"Mr. Li invites you to have lunch at his house at noon tomorrow!"

"Okay, please tell Mr. Li, I am very honored that he invited me to lunch, and I will make sure to go there in time!"

"Yes, Mr. Turner!"

At this time, the two ended the call.

Ted Turner was so excited that he almost jumped up. When all the media were not optimistic about him, the most dazzling talent in the United States agreed with him and asked him to meet. This undoubtedly gave him great confidence, which is far better than What money does to him!
"The major TV networks are trying their best to mock me, waiting to see my failure! Well, I will prove to you whether I, Ted Turner, will succeed or fail!!!" Special De Turner yelled out, venting his frustration.

The whole world is turbid but I am pure alone, everyone is drunk but I am sober!

Ted Turner was lonely before, but at this moment, he felt that he had a like-minded person, he was no longer fighting alone, and there was a genius fighting side by side with him!
"Alice, help me book a ticket to Los Angeles immediately, the sooner the better!" Ted Turner immediately called the female secretary, and he was looking forward to the lunch at noon tomorrow!
"Yes, Mr. Turner."

So, that afternoon, Ted Turner flew from Atlanta, a city in the eastern United States, to Los Angeles in the western United States.

He bought a newspaper before boarding the plane, and it happened to be written about him: "The era of Ted Turner's sober flight is over!"

After reading the report, he laughed disdainfully.

Immediately, he put away the newspaper, and when he succeeds in the future, he will use it to humiliate these media!
……

Noon the next day, Beverly Hills.

Ted Turner came to Li Zetian's home and received a warm welcome.

In the restaurant, Ted Turner smiled and said, "Mr. Li, it's a great honor for you to invite me to lunch!"

Li Zetian smiled and said, "It is my honor for you to participate! Let's chat while eating!"

"Ah."

Li Zetian then drank a glass of wine with him, and said straight to the point: "I heard that Mr. Turner plans to establish CNN American Cable News Network. Although the major media are not optimistic about it, I am very interested in this. However, the establishment of CNN may It's not easy, Mr. Turner must have encountered a lot of difficulties, right?"

Ted Turner nodded, "Yes, it is very difficult! Because CNN needs to broadcast live news 24 hours a day, which requires the establishment of news offices in major cities in the United States and around the world. A very large team of reporters and editors! In order for CNN to cover farther places, it must obtain the right to launch satellites, so it had to go to court with the Communications Commission and win this lawsuit! In addition, in order to interview the most important , The most attractive news must enter the White House, but currently only the first-class mass media have the opportunity to join the White House press corps, this privilege has been monopolized by the three major TV networks for many years!"

Ted Turner was candid and brought up the difficulties.

Li Zetian smiled wryly in his heart. He did not expect that the establishment of CNN would be more difficult than he imagined. However, Ted Turner dared to challenge authority and charged forward, which is very good.

"I believe all these difficulties will be solved!" Li Zetian said, "Mr. Turner, I think you should be very clear about what I mean by asking you to meet. However, I hope that I can have an absolute holding, that is to say, I must hold at least 51 More than % of the shares! But don't worry, I will support your work!"

Ted Turner was silent when he heard the words, thinking about this question.

After one or two minutes, he replied: "Mr. Li, if you can invest 2 million US dollars, I promise to give you 3000% of the shares!"

Although the price was a bit high, it was still within Li Zetian's acceptable range.

"Okay, I accept! But I still have one condition!" He nodded and replied.

"On what terms?" Ted Turner asked.

"If you want to sell your shares in the future, I have the right of first refusal!" Li Zetian said.

"That's fine!"

So, after lunch, the two parties reached an agreement, and the contract was signed on the same day!

Ted Turner has a company called Turner Broadcasting Company, which is the parent company of CNN, and broadcasts movies, television, and sports events, including professional wrestling, baseball, basketball, and hockey.In order to ensure that his TV station can always broadcast live games, he successively bought the Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Atlanta Hawks (basketball team), the Atlanta Flame team (hockey) and so on.

This trick was later learned by Li Zetian and carried forward.But these are things for later, let's not talk about it for now.

Currently, Li Zetian has registered a broadcasting company called Chronos Broadcasting Company (Chronos = Chronos) as the parent company of the TV industry.The parent company of Cronos Broadcasting is the umbrella company.

CNN has Ted Turner, so Li Zetian doesn't have to worry about it.

The immediate priority is to establish the MTV music television network, and then create the "Voice of America" ​​program!
Time is running out, and Li Zetian doesn't know when the MTV in his previous life was established, and it will probably be soon.In short, we must grab the lead and occupy the market.

Li Zetian learned the experience of the rapid development of television stations from Ted Turner. First, he bought a bankrupt television station, acquired television channels, and then provided round-the-clock music programs to cable television networks and satellite television users through satellites.

At this stage, Li Zetian is busy developing games in the morning, building the MTV television network in the afternoon, and paying attention to the development of various companies under his name in the evening. He is busy all day and sleeps only 6 hours a day.Even working while eating.

God rewards hard work!

Li Zetian acquired several bankrupt TV stations, and through integration, he quickly established the MTV television network, but the coverage area in the United States is very small.The program group began to select excellent songs, and then invited record companies and singers to cooperate to produce MVs.For record companies and singers, being able to appear on TV for publicity is also a very good thing, and few people refuse.It's just a bit depressing, the record company is not willing to spend a lot of money to make a good MV.Basically, the singer sings a song in front of the camera and that's it.Well, even so, it is also full of appeal to the audience. They can listen to songs and see their favorite singers.

The MTV television network took the form of music videos and began broadcasting them across the country, becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

However, Li Zetian was not very satisfied with this. He was used to watching the wonderful MVs in his previous life, and seeing the boring MVs now, he felt like chewing wax.

"It seems that we still have to wait for Jingqiu and Michael Jackson's MV to be produced, and it will explode the world!!!" Li Zetian murmured, then looked at Dongfang Yuqin, and asked, "Michael Jackson promised to come to Violet Records ?"

"Li Xueyu is communicating with him, I'll call now to inquire."

"Ah."

Dongfang Yuqin called Li Xueyu at this time. After a while, she hung up the phone and said to Li Zetian: "Michael Jackson learned that the Violet Records Company was founded by you, Mr. Li, so he was very interested. At two o'clock this afternoon Left and right are going to visit the record company."

"Well, then let's go there this afternoon."

"Ok."

……

Michael Jackson came to Violet Records. The company is small in scale, but the equipment inside is all top-notch, and the employees are all elites in the industry.Michael Jackson met with Li Xueyu, chatted for a while, and was a little shocked when he learned that the company had only signed one singer, and he was Li Zetian's wife.

"Chronos Li's wife is also in this record company, it's unbelievable!"

"So, you should know that Chronos Li will definitely spend huge sums of money to develop this record company. Besides Mrs Li, you will be the second signed singer of Violet Records. If you join..." Li Xueyu laughed He added, "You were personally invited by Chronos Li, which shows that he attaches great importance to you, and he also promised to write a few songs for you!"

"He can write songs?!" Michael Jackson was full of surprise.

Li Xueyu smiled and said: "Yes, he is very talented and a musical genius. In fact, I was the same as you at first, and I didn't believe it, but after I listened to the song he wrote for Mrs. Li, I was completely convinced! Frankly speaking, I've never seen a man as amazingly talented as he is, he's really different!"

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!
Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin came to Violet Records at this time, and when they learned that Michael Jackson was in Li Xueyu's office, they rushed over.

Boom boom boom!
Li Zetian knocked on the door a few times to show politeness, then pushed the door open and entered.

Michael Jackson's reputation is not small, but he is still far from a Uranus superstar.When he saw Li Zetian, he felt a little excited.

And the first impression he gave Li Zetian was, what the fuck, Michael Jackson, who is so dark and young, is younger than me. I am 56 years old, and he is 58 years old. You want to call me brother! ! !
Michael Jackson's current appearance is much better than the white-skinned terrifying face in his previous life...

Li Zetian looked at him and asked, "Jackson, would you like to come to Violet Records?"

Michael Jackson also had a business mind. He knew that if the world's top rich man established a record company, he would definitely develop it vigorously, and he would get more resources than other record companies.

"Mr. Li, I am very willing, this is my honor! It's just that I signed a contract with the previous record company..."

"The cost of breaking the contract is all paid by Violet Records, you don't have to worry!"

Li Zetian said with a smile in his heart, how much is the breaking of the contract, Michael Jackson is the cash cow, and his joining is bound to bring fame and fortune to Violet Records, because people will think that Violet Records made Michael Jackson, thus attracting countless singers to join Record company!
Michael Jackson was moved when he saw that Li Zetian agreed to pay the breach of contract fee without even thinking about it!
(End of this chapter)