After Chihara Rinto rushed back to Kanto United, he went directly to Murakami Iori's place. After entering the door, he asked: "Do you understand the specific situation clearly? Why did Fujisan TV suddenly announce its listing?"
Nishijima Rumi and others were discussing with Murakami Iori. When they saw the big boss coming back, they all stood up to say hello and retreated. Murakami Iori shook his head and said helplessly: "The information that can be obtained now cannot be guaranteed to be 100%.
It’s absolutely reliable, and it’s closer to rumors. It happened so suddenly, and there was no movement at all before.”
Qianhara Rinto sat down in front of her, reached out to take the tea, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. Regardless of whether the information is reliable or not, tell me in detail what you know."
Murakami Iori nodded and asked first, "You should know the history of Fujisan TV, right?"
The predecessor of Fujisan TV Station was a privately owned local radio station. There was nothing special about it. It was an ordinary station in the era when radio stations were the most popular. The listening rate was so-so. However, by chance, it hired a young man, Takao Shikada, and it has been around ever since.
It’s different.
Shikata did not have a high degree of education and an ordinary background, but he was well versed in the world and was very good at management. Starting from a low-level position, he actually reached the position of president in more than ten years. He managed the radio station in an orderly manner and became the leading large-scale radio station in the Kanto region at that time. Listen to
The rate is extremely high.
But times are always changing. Although the radio station is operating prosperously, Lutian is keenly aware of the footsteps of the new era, that is, he has discovered that television may completely replace radio and become a new direction for people's entertainment.
He proposed to transform, but other senior executives at the radio station could not understand his idea. They felt that expensive televisions were only playthings for the rich, and it was impossible to popularize them. If ordinary people wanted to be entertained, they still had to rely on radios and television stations.
That's enough. People only watch NHK and they really can't understand it. Just like people in the 1990s had a hard time understanding how Internet entertainment could kill TV entertainment. It's not the same thing at all!
It happened a long time ago, and no one can tell the details of that time clearly, but the result is that everyone knows that Shikada did not give up his idea. He was a very active person and secretly collected information from the station's company, "Fujisan Radio Broadcasting".
", and after a fierce personnel struggle, he finally succeeded in driving out all opponents, and one person swallowed the entire radio station.
Then, he established Mount Fuji Television Station based on the radio station, becoming the third television station in Japan and the second private commercial television station.
Then, with the increasing popularity of televisions, audio-visual entertainment defeated radio entertainment. In addition, Shikada himself joined forces with newspaper groups and large banks to continuously cross-exchange shares to form a reliable alliance. Fujiyama TV Station also
It gradually developed and expanded, and finally became one of the cores of the four major civil release networks in Japan.
The Shikada family also successfully transcended social strata and became a member of the conglomerate family. They have always firmly controlled radio broadcasting and the management rights of Mount Fuji TV. One of the nicknames of Mount Fuji TV is even "The Shikata Family's TV Station".
The true private sector within the private sector.
Shikada Takao is a legend in the industry and an inspirational idol for many young people. Chihara Rinto has heard people talk about him many times and directly smiled and said: "I probably know a little about it, you go on."
Iori Murakami took out several phone records and showed him, "Since you know it clearly, it's easy to explain. The person who controls the radio broadcasting and Mount Fuji TV now is Shikada Hiranobu, the grandson of Mr. Shikada Takao. There are rumors that yesterday, the radio broadcast
At the broadcasting board of directors, he was dismissed because of the Shikada family's long-term decision-making errors, and then there was a press conference this evening to announce that Fujisan TV was going public. We speculate that Fujisan TV suddenly announced that it would be listed for dilution.
shares of the Shikada family in order to achieve the goal of completely expelling them."
Chihara Rinto looked through the phone records, which recorded who disclosed what information, and asked thoughtfully: "Long-term decision-making mistakes? I don't know this. What did the Shikada family do?"
Murakami Iori handed him another piece of "unreliable information" and replied: "There are many things. In the late 1980s, almost ten years ago, the Shikada family's family fund jointly established a real estate company with Radio Broadcasting and hoarded
With a large amount of land and houses, Shikada Hisanobu's father also took the opportunity to build the current headquarters building of Fujisan TV, all of which suffered serious losses. I heard that he also took responsibility and resigned because of this, and then Shikada Hisanobu was replaced."
Chihara Rinto took the information and took a closer look, and couldn't help but secretly sigh that the Shikada family was really unlucky.
The real estate economy, to put it bluntly, is a large-scale game of drumming and passing on flowers. Land and houses change hands layer by layer, and the prices get higher and higher. When they reach a certain level, the last unlucky person will take over and pay the price, and the Shikada family is one of the unlucky people.
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A few years before the economic bubble burst, they acquired a large amount of land in urban Tokyo and built a large number of luxury apartment buildings and large office buildings. Then they couldn't sell it, and the new headquarters building they built was even more
It's miserable.
The original headquarters of Mount Fuji TV was in Shinjuku, where the original radio station was located. This was the best place to view Mount Fuji from a distance before there were so many high-rise buildings in Tokyo. This is also the reason why the station was named "Fujiyama Radio Broadcasting", because it was
The place facing Mount Fuji has been used for decades, and Mount Fuji TV station just moved. But there is no problem with the move, it's just that the time was not chosen right.
The Shikada family pushed Fujisan TV to buy a new piece of land created by filling up Tokyo Bay in Minato City, and then built a magnificent high-rise building. As a result, these two items alone cost nearly 140 billion yen. But now the bubble economy has burst.
In addition, it has been hit by the financial crisis, and the current valuation of the land and buildings is only about 40 billion yen, only a fraction of it left.
A rough calculation shows that 70% of the wealth of the Shikada family has turned into bad debts just because of two serious economic blows, and Mount Fuji TV has depreciated for no reason because of the wrong strategic decision-making of the Shikada family.
Hundreds of billions of yen.
Chihara Rinto finished reading briefly and said thoughtfully: "In other words, the expulsion of the Shikada family is because Fujisan Radio and Fujisan TV are settling old scores?"
Murakami Iori shook his head lightly, "Not entirely, the third generation of Shinpei Shikada also has problems. It is said that he seems to have misappropriated funds from Mount Fuji TV to make up for the shortfall of the Shikada family fund, but this rumor is not very credible; there are also people
He said that he wanted Fujisan TV to share the loss of radio broadcasting, because they have been pursuing the Shikada family's responsibility there, and he is under great pressure."
After a pause, she added, "In addition, the headquarters of Fujisan TV and the thirty-one franchise stations have generally been dissatisfied with him for a long time. Fujisan TV in the 1980s was somewhat similar to ours now, with endless good programs.
The program is known as "the most down-to-earth TV station for the common people". It is very strong. The only opponent is NHK. It can easily overwhelm Sakurajima, Tokyo Broadcasting Teb and Asagi. Now the competitiveness has declined.
It happened after Shikada Nobuhei took over."
Chihara Rinto was surprised. Since he came to this world, Fujisan TV has been mediocre. He really hasn't paid much attention to him. He is either targeting Tokyo Broadcasting Teb for revenge, or he is jealous of NHK's innate advantages, or he just wants to
He sniped Sakurajima, even Chaoyue was beaten by him, but he just didn't care that Fujisan TV looked like a soy sauce thing. Did it turn out that he was once the overlord back then?
He was quite interested in this and asked: "How did their ratings drop?"
After recalling it, Murakami Iori said: "The watershed was the relocation of the headquarters. When they were doing programs before, they paid great attention to the audience's experience. They were gorgeous and exaggerated, opposed to authority, and emphasized themselves, which was very popular with young audiences. At that time, the whole of Japan was in a state of dissatisfaction, especially
Young people feel like they are living in paradise, Tokyo is the center of the world, and the ratings of these programs are very high, allowing them to win the Triple Crown several times in a row."
"After the relocation, that is, after the economic bubble burst, they still did this program. It aroused resentment among some viewers and no one wanted to change it. Especially after Shikada Nobuhei came to power, he relied on nepotism and only cared about personal wealth. Slowly, Fujisan TV station lost its
Without a rigorous style of work, the programs produced cannot maintain high quality, and the ratings will become worse day by day."
In the end, she said regretfully, "I liked this TV station very much when I was in school, but it has declined like this. It's such a pity."
Qianhara Rinto understood. Although Murakami Iori only heard about the rumors, they felt very reasonable. At most, there might be other problems in it, such as newspapers and banks messing around, but the truth should be close to the ten rich.
The third generation still makes sense.
The grandfather, Takao Shikada, was born in poverty and was very ambitious. He also caught up with the trend of the times and created what can be called a brilliant career. However, Takao Shikata's son may want to continue the glory and continue some of the styles of Takao Shikada during his entrepreneurial period.
, can be regarded as a conservative leader, but he was not very lucky and happened to catch up with the turmoil of the times.
When it came to Shikada Takao's grandson Xinping, maybe his life had been too good since he was a child, and he didn't pay attention to some of the things his ancestors insisted on, let alone the ability to turn the tide. As a result, he went further and further on the road to ruining his family. If he hadn't been a
If the Overlord has a strong foundation, maybe it will not be mediocre, but even worse.
In the end, the Shikada family's perverse behavior made Fujisan Radio Broadcasting. The management and small shareholders of Fujisan Radio couldn't stand it anymore. They didn't care whether they were the founding family or not. They directly wanted to deprive the Shikada family of control. But even if the Shikada family continued to decline,
, after all, still held a large amount of equity in the mother and son companies, so in order to prevent the Shikada family from taking a breather to counterattack, the management and small and medium-sized shareholders simply decided to list Fujisan TV directly.
The Shikada family holds too much equity, and dilution requires a lot of funds. However, the current economic situation is bad, and the wave of bank failures has just passed. Companies that have money do not dare to spend it randomly. The only way to quickly gather enough funds is to go public and raise funds.
This is understandable, it is just normal internal turmoil within a company, but it is the first of its kind for a Japanese private commercial TV station to be listed on the market. If Mount Fuji TV can be successfully listed, it will be the first of the five major commercial stations to be listed on the market.
After Iori Murakami finished reporting the "rumor summary", after waiting for a while and seeing that Chihara Rinto remained silent, he asked again: "Qianhara, although this is big news in the industry and should be understood, why are you so concerned?"
Chihara Rinto said thoughtfully: "The follow-up development of this matter should be interesting."
Murakami Iori became even more confused, "What will happen next? It should be difficult for the Shikada family to reverse the situation now, right?"
Qianhara Rinto shook his head. In another world, something similar seemed to have happened, but it was an economic matter. He didn't pay much attention to it. He only had a rough impression. He could only be sure that if Mount Fuji TV really
Once it was successfully listed, the bad luck began.
In fact, there are evil wolves who have been watching the TV station for a long time, but they have never had the chance to take action. For example, Kanto United was almost cheated, but only God knows whether it will really happen.
While he was thinking about the impact this would have on him and the entire industry, he said: "It's hard to say yet. Anyway, it won't be listed in a day or two. Let's wait and see!"