Chapter 582： Comcast to make peace

The Grammys are the world's highest-profile music halls.

What the Oscars are for movies.

But for Dunn, the Grammys are just a show, or rather, a grand concert!

He has been at the Grammys for the second year in a row, mainly because little Taylor likes to join in the fun, she has a great passion for music.

This time to participate, Dunn's identity is not the same as the last time.

Last time, he was just a passing visitor.

This time, he's a Grammy nominee for Song of the Year!

This year's most popular, most-demanded, and best-selling single album "Marvel's Song", also known as "", was not unexpectedly nominated for this Grammy.

Dunn did not expect to win.

This is his first public release, and the only one.

If this easily won the Grammy's most important single of the year award, the Grammy's style would be too low, too shameless.

In fact, it does.

The 23-year-old female singer Nora Jones has become the biggest winner of this year's Grammys, including eight awards including the best record of the year, the best album of the year, the best single of the year, and the best newcomer of the year!

In addition, another major highlight of this year's Grammys is the debut performance of Best Female Rock Vocalist winner Shirley Crow, who publicly expressed a strong anti-war voice.

Now, the situation in the United States is tense again.

Just like the period after the "9/11 terrorist attack" broke out.

The federal government is sparing no effort to criticize the Iraqi government, accusing the other side of weapons of mass destruction, trying to bypass the United Nations, and continue to fight unilaterally under the guise of self-defense and counterattack.

The smoke of war seems to have spread across the country.

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Little Taylor was unhappy about Dunn's failure to win the award and was unhappy for several days.

Dunn doesn't care.

And she's in a good mood because Comcast is here to make peace!

At the beginning, the sta TV network and Comcast signed a three-year exclusive operation right, and the contract is about to expire in two months.

With the development of the past few years, the sta TV network has firmly locked the throne of the largest professional cable TV network in North America, and the number of subscribers has reached 14.08 million!

Last year, subscription fees alone were as high as $1.35 billion.

Comcast earned $110 million through an 8 percent exclusive operating cut.

In any case, no one can live with money!

Recently, New Universal and Viacom fought in the fields of film and television. Comcast did not participate in it, just didn't want to offend Dunn at this time.

In the field of TV operation now, it is not like the previous two years, where the Comcast family dominates.

With the economic difficulties of Time Warner, Warner Cable began to seek greater profit output when operating TV, instead of excluding competitors as before - suppressing Disney and blocking sta.

Not only that, News Corp. has also begun to lay out the TV operation business. Murdoch is currently negotiating with Hughes Electronics, intending to buy the control of directv.

The traditional operators Verizon, at&t and sprint have also increased their investment in cable TV operations.

Competition will bring about changes in the industry.

With the rise of Comcast, the US has seen the huge profits of cable TV operations, and major manufacturers have stepped in and competed.

There is no doubt that the cable television operation industry will face a new round of reshuffle.

Even in order to compete for users, it will promote the further development of technology! (The process of changing narrowband to broadband is also indirectly affected by this. In order to seek higher-definition broadcast channels, cable TV has learned from the technology of optical fiber signal transmission, and has laid more optical fiber pipes, which has promoted the improvement of network speed.)

Two years ago, due to the competition from HBO, a subsidiary of Time Warner, STA had to rely on the power of Comcast if it wanted to survive and develop.

Now, the general environment of the market has changed.

The sta TV network has successfully become the industry leader, full of confidence and high income, and operators in the United States will definitely compete for this big customer.

It is also impossible for Warner Cable to boycott the operation of the sta for the sake of hbo, and may also participate in it and compete for the operation right of the sta.

Two years ago, Sta left Comcast and couldn't live at all.

Now, even if the sta blocks Comcast, under the promotion of many cable operators, it can still survive and enjoy!

espn is Disney's ace, mtv is Viacom's ace.

sta has high hopes by Dunn, to become the trump card of New Universal!

In terms of volume, there is still a big gap between the number of sta users and espn and mtv, but the role has gradually been revealed.

Just over 14 million users is enough to make Comcast bow its head!

If the number of users waiting for sta exceeds 20 million, 30 million, and 40 million, what level will it be?

At that time, even if New Universal fails to take over the nbc group, it will be enough to occupy a place in the TV field!

Time Warner also does not have a large public TV network, and does not rely on the three pillars of tbs, cnn, and hbo to make a sound in the TV field?

"Dawn, this weekend, the Roberts family dinner, are you going?"

Barry Diller is solely responsible for this negotiation with Comcast.

He has this qualification.

The sta TV network was founded by Barry Diller.

"Family dinner? Not interested!"

Tang En waved his hand and didn't care.

A few years ago, Brian Roberts relied on sta to be inseparable from Comcast, and he set up a lot in front of Dunn.

That shelf is almost as good as Lei Shidong.

This time it was Tang En's turn to turn against the guest, so he wouldn't give him face.

Barry Diller said: "In any case, Comcast still has unshakable strength in cable TV operations. If it is not necessary, there is no need to offend too much."

Dunn nodded and said: "I know, that's why I will accept the negotiation with Comcast. Otherwise, I will directly block it! I have blocked Disney, and Viacom has also blocked, and I am not afraid of one more. Comcast!"

"That's angry talk!" Barry Diller shook his head, shaking his head in tears and laughing, "In this matter, we still have to give Comcast a little sweetness. Let them compete with Viacom in New Universal. , remain neutral."

Dunn pondered a little and said: "Unless Comcast can provide us with great benefits, otherwise, we will cancel the exclusive operation rights and let more operators participate. With competition, users' services will be better. Better, we have less constraints."

For the sta TV network, the exclusive operator's commission rate is relatively low, between 7% and 8%.

If multiple operators operate jointly, the proportion of the commission will be relatively high. It is a bit like a movie distributor, who needs to extract about 10% of the operating expenses from the total revenue.

From the point of view of saving expenses, it is more in line with the interests of New Universal to authorize exclusive operations.

However, this difference in operating expenses has little impact on New Global.

Without the exclusive constraints of Comcast, sta may have more room for improvement!

Since the broadcast of "Band of Brothers", sta has successfully become the No. 1 professional cable network in the United States, Comcast's work has been somewhat slack.

That is asking Dunn for chips!

This kind of thing can't happen again.

Barry Diller agreed with Dunn's statement, nodded, and then looked at him hesitantly, "You really don't want to go to the weekend family dinner? Old Roberts also sent an invitation letter!"

"Don't go!" Tang En waved his hand, very determined, "I have more important things!"

"What's more important?"

"I'm going to experience life."

"Experience life?"

"That's right."

"How did you experience it?"

"I want to be a policeman!"

Barry Diller nearly fainted with a slap on the forehead.

This big boss is really not doing his job properly...

Uh, leisurely and elegant!

(Sanqi Chinese)