Chapter 649 Spend 12 billion US dollars a year! (Daily update 12,000~)
Linda and Johnson breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Wu Jianye wanted a loan, so that they would not have to dilute their shares in Phantom Entertainment.
It's just that they didn't notice that Wu Jianye said that he wanted to get a loan from the bank first...
"Then which TV network are you optimistic about?" Linda asked. Since Phantom Entertainment is now asking for a loan, Wu Jianye must already have a TV network that he likes!
Wu Jianye said in an astonishing voice: "Contact ABC. If possible, I hope that Phantom Entertainment can become the owner of ABC in one year!"
abc, cbs, and nbc combine to form the three major commercial radio and television programs in north america.
In the spring of 1941, the Federal Communications Commission decided that NBC could not own both the red network and the blue network.
In October 1943, Edward Noble purchased the Blue Broadcasting Network (which owned 116 affiliated radio stations) for $8 million, and officially used the name of the American Broadcasting Corporation on June 15, 1945.
In February 1953, it was purchased by the United Paramount Theater Company for US$25 million to form the American Broadcasting Company-Paramount Theater Company. Leonard Gordonson, the former chairman of the United Paramount Theater Company, became the chairman of the new company.
In April 1965, it was renamed American Broadcasting Corporation.
In March 1985, Metropolitan Communications Corporation was acquired for US$3.5 billion, and the company was renamed Metropolitan ABC, but generally still uses its original name.
In the late 1970s, 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 television stations in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Fresno and San Francisco, and has 220 affiliated television stations.
The company also operates AM and FM radio stations and has several affiliated radio stations.
At the same time, ESPN, the famous North American sports channel, also belongs to the ABC television network.
If Wu Jianye hadn't appeared, it would have been acquired by Disney in 1995...
Linda looked at Wu Jianye in surprise. She didn't expect that Wu Jianye had such a big appetite and fell in love with abc as soon as he made a move.
"It is not a simple matter to get ABC. Now ABC's valuation has definitely exceeded tens of billions of dollars. Even if Phantom Entertainment and bank loans, it is impossible to get such a large loan!" Linda
He couldn't help but said.
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "If the bank can't take it out, it doesn't mean that I personally can't take it out. Moreover, we don't have to completely control abc right from the beginning. We can slowly penetrate it. If you don't want to lose your shares in Phantom Entertainment,
To dilute it, we need to put more effort into acquisitions!”
Can Wu Jianye come up with tens of billions of dollars in cash now?
In fact, if Wu Jianye gave up the plan for the reunification of East and West Germany and the oil crisis, he could really come up with it, but it is impossible for Wu Jianye to give up these two projects that can bring him huge profits.
However, the reunification of East and West Germany and the oil crisis both happened this year, and the acquisition of ABC is not a simple matter. It is impossible to negotiate everything 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 TV networks in North America, but also has four other acquisitions and two construction projects!
Linda and Johnson's faces became a little ugly. Just now they thought Wu Jianye would not continue to invest in Phantom Entertainment, but now they didn't expect that Wu Jianye still wanted to invest in Phantom Entertainment.
Wu Jianye glanced at them and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will not 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 time. Naturally, they also understood that the negotiation with abc was destined to be a long time, and among them, if Phantom Entertainment's
All good things to develop.
For example, if Phantom Entertainment's movies continue to sell well, Phantom's market valuation will rise again. When Phantom wants to borrow money, it will definitely be able to get more funds.
"According to the data, if you want to buy abc from Metropolitan Communications, the most critical person is that Metropolitan Communications' major shareholder is Buffett, who holds 25% of Metropolitan Communications' shares!" Linda
After sorting out his emotions, he said.
When Metropolitan Communications acquired ABC, its assets were only one-quarter of ABC's. The reason it was able to acquire ABC was because of Buffett's help.
So now Phantom Entertainment needs to negotiate with Buffett if it wants to win ABC!
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, he is known as the stock god.
However, there are actually some advantages to Phantom Entertainment, that is, Buffett's focus has never been on entertainment.
Otherwise, Buffett would not sell ABC to Disney. Later, he would slowly sell Disney shares and completely withdraw from the Disney company.
The second acquisition.......
In fact, it is not just the second acquisition, but the remaining four acquisitions. In fact, they are all about the acquisition of sports projects. Since Wu Jianye wants to build Phantom Entertainment into a large media group, how can he let go of sports projects?
What about acquisition?
This involves not only Phantom Entertainment, but also Hanshui Beverage and 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 Hanshui Beverage, Luck Sports and Phantom Entertainment.
As the world's largest sport, football, Wu Jianye definitely cannot give up.
Among the information Linda handed over, Wu Jianye selected Manchester United in the English League One!
At this time, England had not yet officially established the Premier League, so the top league in England today is the English League One!
In fact, Wu Jianye wants to buy Fiorentina in Serie A more than Manchester United!
After all, Florence once owned Zhang Jun (here I would like to pay a big tribute to Lin Haitingtao, it was the first football novel Huangshan read, and I cried when Zhang Jun retired!)!
But Wu Jianye is still a businessman after all, so he sets his sights on Manchester United. In another time and space, Manchester United's net worth has reached four 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 a profit without losing money. Even if you don't understand football, you still know the glory of Manchester United. Now Ferguson has joined Manchester United, but Manchester United's results this season are 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 valuable 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, the remaining three projects that are difficult to acquire are the football team, baseball team and basketball team that have huge influence in North America!
Especially the basketball club Wu Jianye designated to acquire is the Los Angeles Lakers!
After all, Buss views the Lakers as his own family business, and buying the Lakers from them would be as difficult as acquiring the ABC television network!
"It's not easy to acquire 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 Old Buss will not be tempted, even if he likes the Lakers!"
Although it is very difficult to acquire the Lakers, it does not mean that there is no room for maneuverability. The funds involved in acquiring abc and the Lakers are almost negligible.
Although some data show that Buss spent US$67.5 million to acquire the Lakers in 1979, in fact this was not simply the funds used to acquire the Lakers. There were three targets in this acquisition, namely Los Angeles
The Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings (hockey team), and the home of the Lakers at the time!
Of that, only $18 million was spent on the Lakers!
Although it has been nearly 11 years since 1979, and the Lakers' market value has certainly doubled several times, according to the latest NBA team market value rankings, the Lakers' market value is only around US$35 million.
Of course, if Wu Jianye really wants to buy the Lakers, this price is definitely impossible. If the Lakers' home court is included, the price will exceed 150 million US dollars!
Money is not a problem for Wu Jianye, the main thing is how to win over Lao Bas!
"Let's communicate with Old Buss first and ask him if he has any intention to sell the Lakers!" Wu Jianye said.
Wu Jianye's idea of acquiring the Lakers is to be courteous first and then to fight. If Buss can agree to sell the Lakers, then everything will be easy to talk about. If he doesn't agree, then he can only use means.
Bass's current net worth is only around US$1 billion. He is most famous in Los Angeles not for his sports career, but for his real estate career.
Buffett's Wu Jianye can't use capital means to suppress it, but that doesn't mean Bass can't!
Johnson nodded beside him and said, "Leave this matter to me. My father has some business cooperation with old Bass!"
Wu Jianye nodded and said: "Okay then, the negotiation team of Hanshui Beverage and Luck Sports will come over to join you!"
As for the acquisition of the football team and baseball team, Wu Jianye also handed it over to Johnson!
Finally, it’s about the two constructions of Phantom Entertainment!
"First of all, Phantom Entertainment, as one of the seven major studios in Hollywood, is imminent in constructing its own studio. This matter must be started in the second half of this year!" Wu Jianye ordered.
Although Phantom Entertainment has signed contracts with Universal and 20th Century Fox to use studios, it does not 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. Wu Jianye is not worried about leaving this lifeline in the hands of others!
What's more, with the development of film technology in the future, studio shooting will also become mainstream, especially since Phantom Entertainment has several major IP series, which requires huge studio support. It can be said that the construction of studios has become Phantom's
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 under preparation. 25 studios will be built in the early stage and are expected to be completed in two years. The overall plan is to have a total of 45 studios and the total investment will exceed US$500 million!" Linda replied
!
Linda then 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 Cinema!" 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 tourist attraction of Phantom Studios in the future.
"Actually, we don't need to be so anxious about the construction of Phantom City!" Linda suggested.
Although Wu Jianye repeatedly emphasized to her the importance of Phantom Studios, in Linda's view, if you want to build Phantom Studios, you need a theme park to accompany it, but the current shortcomings of Phantom Entertainment are
It turns out that there are still very few movie theme parks available for them to build.
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Don't be anxious now, but you should be anxious in the future. Let's encircle the land first, and then plan to build the "Jurassic Park" theme park and the "Terminator" theme park first!"
"As for the rest, we will just build it slowly as Phantom Entertainment develops!"
Of course, Wu Jianye also knew the shortcomings that Linda knew about, so he did not object to Linda's suggestions 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 movies in the future, then we will not only lose money on the investment in the two movies!"
Wu Jianye did not show any displeasure because of Linda's different opinions. He was even a little relieved because Linda was considering the issue from the position of the president of Phantom Entertainment.
However, what needs to be built still needs to be built.
"Don't worry about this. Have you forgotten that when "The Last Love" was released, everyone didn't like the movie?"
Linda said awkwardly: "Even so, I think what we are doing now is a bit too radical. You have to know that if we add in our acquisition of the ABC TV network, Phantom Entertainment's investment this year will exceed 12 billion US dollars."
, with such a huge income, we have to be more cautious!"
Wu Jianye thought for a while and knew that Linda would not let go easily if he did not come up with some fundamental solutions. Moreover, Wu Jianye did not want to often use his power to overpower others and make Linda do something unpleasant.
Very promising investment!
"Let's do this. Fengge Media in Xiangjiang will provide a guarantee for Phantom Entertainment to get a credit loan of 300 million US dollars from Standard Chartered Bank as the start-up capital of Phantom Cinema. At the same time, you and I will sign another agreement on the box office of "Jurassic Park"
The gambling agreement states that if "Jurassic Park" does not achieve a box office of more than 300 million U.S. dollars in North America by then, the investment in Phantom Studios will be borne by me alone and has nothing to do with Phantom Entertainment!"