Chapter 813： NFL Broadcasting Rights (1)

Cruise Moore was recommended by Hansen to join Yang Cheng's personal bodyguard team, but because Yang Cheng rarely went to countries with serious disturbances, except for the New York headquarters, other times, he used Hansen + Andrew with 2-4. Rotating members form a small team to protect safety, so even if Cruise is heavily recommended by Hansen and his ability is far above others, he rarely appears in front of Yang Cheng. Of course, even if he appears next to him, Yang Cheng does not Will pay special attention to it.

If it hadn't been for Andrew to mention it, he would have forgotten that there is still such a person in his team.

It stands to reason that the relationship between Hansen and Cruise should be quite good. They are not only comrades in arms, but also brothers. They shouldn't be in conflict over trivial matters. Things that can cause them to quarrel must be big things.

I think of asking Hansen to investigate Neigui again. Shouldn’t I be surprised after so long?

Yang Cheng rubbed his chin, his instinct told him that Hansen had just inexplicably interceded for the murderer and Cruise might be inextricably linked.

Of course, this matter needs to be verified carefully, otherwise it will easily cause unnecessary trouble, such as mutual suspicion between teams!

"Andrew, you find a way to figure out the reason for the quarrel between Hansen and Cruise Moore, let alone I want to know, do you understand what I mean?" Yang Cheng ordered.

Andrew came with an American military salute, "Yes, boss, you will get the answer you want."

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After Andrew left, Yang Cheng finally walked out of the study, walked for a while, came to the living room on the second floor, and turned on the LCD TV on the wall. A fierce football game appeared before Yang Cheng with passionate commentary. .

Yang Cheng took a closer look and found that this was a highlight of the new season's NFL opener, and he snapped his forehead. Because of this unexpected incident, he had forgotten the acquisition of Calero’s Panthers. , I don’t know if Ryze has any good news.

reduced the voice, took out his cell phone and called Ryze Khan.

On TV, the voice of the commentator came, "The 2015-16 NFL season officially kicked off, and the opening game started in the stormy Fox Fort.

The defending champion New England Patriots sit at home against their old rival Pittsburgh Steelers. The Patriots suffered from "deflation" during the offseason. Fortunately, after the tug-of-war, the Federal Court rejected the league’s quartile of the Patriots’ core and star quartiles. Tom Brady's four-game suspension penalty swept away the team's previous backlog.

The work of the Steelers during the offseason was carried out very well, basically maintaining the original main lineup, especially the offensive team, after several seasons of running-in, are expected to be high in the new season.

In the game, Tom Brady showed the strength of the elite four-pointers and showed excellent competitive form, which made the Steelers' defense team exhausted throughout the game and finally led the Patriots to a 27:21 home victory.

After the game, the Steelers coach claimed that the Steelers’ radio headsets were always affected by signal interference, resulting in poor tactical transmission, suggesting that the Patriot staff was tricking the game. However, the league then rejected the rumors and the fans on both sides also maintained great restraint. It is the first game of the season, and the excitement is yet to come. "

Yang Cheng’s attention was focused on the TV. It is not known even if Ryze’s phone was connected. It was after Ryze yelled a few times before he recovered and asked, “Ryze, the acquisition of the Carolina Panthers How is the matter going? As you know, I am afraid I have not had the energy to deal with these little things recently."

Yes, in the eyes of Yang Cheng, this acquisition of several billion dollars is really not a big deal compared to his life.

"Boss, because you were taken away, Mr. Roger Goodall had doubts about our acquisition of the Panthers. He thought that our case might affect the reputation of the NFL." Ryze did not hide it and directly took Roger Goodall’s Cautiously pierced and told Yang Cheng.

Hearing that, Yang Cheng frowned, “It is understandable that these people are better than the other. The former owner of the Panthers was forced to sell the team just because of racial discrimination. At this time, once the scandal of the new owner comes out, it will not only be black. The Leopards will fall into the center of public opinion controversy, and NFL management is equally to blame.

Then how did you deal with it? "

Ritz hurriedly said, "I make my own claim and ask the league and Jerry Richardson to continue the acquisition process, but this season we will not make official announcements for the time being. After the season is over, we will announce the team ownership change. Move home to Los Angeles."

Yang Cheng not only did not blame, but gave a great praise to Ryze’s adaptability, "Yes, in this way, Roger Goodall does not have to worry about reputation issues. There is a buffer for the whole season, and my affairs will also be watered down a lot. ."

Ritz breathed a sigh of relief, "The final purchase price was US$1.99 billion, which was higher than David Taber’s US$1.95 billion. Fortunately, it did not exceed the bottom line of 2 billion. Jerry Richardson also agreed to this price, and it can be signed at any time. Contract, of course, this season he is still the nominal team owner, but we can send someone to take over the team’s finances."

Yang Cheng took a deep breath. Although he had been prepared for the price, it was still painful to let him come out. "I see, you directly send our own financial joint external agency to deal with it. Black Panther’s finances do a detailed investigation, and I don’t want any loopholes to appear."

Ritz replied, "Good boss, in addition, according to the contract, we can now send a manager to the team to participate in the management of this season, and prepare for the official takeover next season. This candidate also needs the boss. To decide."

Yang Cheng rubbed his head with a headache, "I have no choice. Let's hire a management company to help me, and I can decide when I am completely free."

He is now restricted to a range of 5 kilometers and cannot go out. Of course, he can call people over to meet. F~B~I will not make restrictions in this regard, but Yang Cheng has electronic shackles on her feet. This thing is "not pretty." "Of course it does not mean the appearance, mainly because wearing this thing is usually mistaken for a crime. Yang Cheng doesn't want to be misunderstood, so it's better not to meet.

Ritz added, "This is not a big problem. An external management company is hired to help with supervision. Contractual constraints are enough.

But there is one thing the boss needs to make as soon as possible, about the NFL broadcasting rights. "

Yang Cheng raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter? Didn't the NFL broadcasting rights be divided among the major TV stations? I remember that the new contract is not yet negotiated."

"That's right, but in the process of communicating with Roger Goodall, he specifically mentioned the global webcast of the Thursday Night Game, as if he wanted to ask whether we were interested in this piece of cake."

Yang Cheng heard the words and thought about it. According to American time, the NFL game time can be roughly divided into two categories: afternoon games and night games.

Among them, the afternoon field occupies half of the day on Sunday, which is generally distributed during the two kickoff periods of 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm Eastern time.

Night games are usually arranged on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights, which are the "Thursday Night Games", "Sunday Night Games" and "Monday Night Games" that have been seen more in recent years. This also means , The most expensive advertising time on American TV, the NFL occupies at least half of the country, you can imagine how profitable the NFL.

Because of the existence of the super giant of the NFL, other sports leagues’ live broadcast schedules should be as staggered as possible to avoid the embarrassing situation where the two tigers will die, because usually other sports leagues die.

For example, FOX’s MLB live broadcast is mainly scheduled on Saturday, and its ace program is FoxSaturdayBaseball (Fox Saturday Baseball);

And ESPN live broadcasts NBA, the core time is Wednesday and Friday evening, especially on Friday two consecutive games live on the east and west;

As for the exclusive NHL live broadcast on NBC, Wednesday Night Hockey (Wednesday Night Hockey) is the main focus.

Of course, the NFL is not stupid and will not give up several prime time breaks for no reason. In order to promote rugby culture, they usually give up Saturday night prime time to college football games.

Major TV stations and their live broadcast networks and local TV stations cover almost every competition area. In order to make way for college football, the NFL, except for individual games in the last few weeks of the regular season, does not have Saturday games in the US, although the NFL does not Law makes money from college rugby games, but it is also conducive to the development of rugby.

As a super giant in North American sports events, its broadcast rights are by no means one that can swallow all of it. At present, the NFL live broadcast rights in the United States are divided among five companies, NBC, FOX, CBS, ESPN, and the only official NFLNetwork (NFL Network). ).

This is also in line with the general trend of top-level event copyright sales in the global market. Heavyweight events tend to be multiple rather than exclusive. For example, three in the UK have the rights to live broadcast of the Premier League, and the NBA is also live broadcast in the United States, including ESPN. /ABC/TNT/NBATV, a national sports broadcast platform The five major NFL live broadcasts in the United States are divided according to different games and time periods. Among them, NBC owns Sunday night games, which is the best time. The game, and NBC also has the priority of each round of competition, as well as the right to temporarily change the number of live broadcasts after the regular season.

At the same time, NBC will also broadcast the regular season opener and Thanksgiving game on Thursday night, US time, including of course two playoff games.

But NBC is not the TV station with the most live broadcasts. FOX Sports and NFLNetwork have cooperated to squeeze out NBC and CBS, and used four years of 660 million US dollars to win the broadcast rights of the Thursday night game, plus FOX Sunday afternoon and The playoffs have ranked first in terms of numbers, and CBS will continue to retain the rights to broadcast half of the games on Sunday afternoon. The American League finals in their hands and the National League finals held by FOX are their trump cards.

As a representative of cable TV, ESPN, in addition to holding the trump card of NBA games, has also devoted great effort to the NFL. They have the live broadcast rights of the Monday Night Game, a playoff wild card game and the All-Star Game, but because The late selection sequence has caused the relatively limited appeal of the Monday Night match, which has also become a major pain point for ESPN. In recent years, they have been trying to break the dominance of FOX and NBC, but due to the size problem, they have not been Can make a trip.

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