Chapter 813 NFL Broadcast Rights (1)

Crews Moore was recommended by Hansen to join Yang Cheng's personal bodyguard team, but because Yang Cheng seldom went to countries with severe turmoil, except in the New York headquarters, most of the time, Hansen + Andrew was used to match 2-4 Rotating members formed a team to protect safety, so even if Cruise was highly recommended by Hansen and his ability was far above others, he rarely appeared in front of Yang Cheng. Of course, even if he appeared by his side, Yang Cheng would not Will pay special attention to it.

If Andrew hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that there was such a number one 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 should not clash over small things. Things that can cause them to quarrel violently must be big things.

Thinking of the fact that I asked Hansen to investigate the inner ghost, there should be some clues after such a long time, right?

Yang Cheng rubbed his chin, his intuition told him that Hansen's inexplicable pleading for the murderer just now might be inextricably linked with Cruise.

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

"Andrew, try to figure out the reason for the quarrel between Hansen and Cruz Moore, don't say I want to know, do you understand what I mean?" Yang Cheng ordered.

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

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After Andrew left, Yang Cheng finally walked out of the study, strolled with his hands behind his back, came to the living room on the second floor, turned on the LCD TV hanging on the wall, and a fierce rugby match appeared in front of Yang Cheng with passionate commentary .

Yang Cheng took a closer look and found that this was the highlights of the new NFL season opener. He slapped his forehead suddenly. Because of this unexpected incident, he had completely forgotten about the acquisition of the Calero Panthers. , I don’t know if there is any good news from Ryze.

Turn down the volume, take out the phone and call Riz Khan.

On the TV, the voice of the commentary came, "The 2015-16 NFL season officially started, and the opening game started in the stormy Foxburg.

The defending champion New England Patriots played at home against the old rival Pittsburgh Steelers. The Patriots were plagued by "venting valves" during the offseason. Fortunately, after the tug-of-war, the federal court rejected the league's decision on the Patriots' core and star quarterbacks Tom Brady's four-game suspension penalty, the team's previous backlog of haze was swept away.

The Steelers did a good job during the offseason, basically maintaining the original main lineup, especially the offensive team, after several seasons of running-in, people have high hopes for the new season.

In the game, Tom Brady showed the strength of an elite quarterback and showed an excellent competitive state, which made the Steelers defense team exhausted throughout the game, and finally led the Patriots to a 27:21 home victory.

Although the Steelers coach claimed after the game that the Steelers' radio headsets were always subject to signal interference, resulting in poor tactical transmission, implying that the Patriots staff were playing tricks, but then the league refuted the rumors, and the fans on both sides also maintained great restraint. It's the first game of the season, and the excitement is yet to come. "

Yang Cheng's attention was focused on the TV, and he didn't even know that Ruiz's call was connected, or whether Ruiz called out a few times before recovering and asked, "Ryze, the acquisition of the Carolina Panthers?" How is the matter going? You know, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to deal with these small things recently."

Yes,

In Yang Cheng's eyes, the acquisition of more than a billion dollars was really nothing compared to his life.

"Boss, because you were taken away, Mr. Roger Goodell had doubts about our acquisition of the Panthers. He thought that our case might affect the reputation of the NFL." Be careful and tell Yang Cheng.

Hearing this, Yang Cheng frowned, "It's understandable, each of these people is better than the other. The former owner of the Black Panthers was just forced to sell the team because of racial discrimination. At this time, if there is another scandal about the new owner, not only the Black Panthers The Leopards will therefore fall into the center of public opinion, and the NFL management is also to blame.

So how did you deal with it afterwards? "

Ruiz quickly said, "I made my own claim and asked the league and Jerry Richardson to continue to complete the acquisition process, but we will not make an official announcement this season. After the season is over, we will announce the change of ownership of the team. Moved home to Los Angeles."

Not only did Yang Cheng not blame her, but she also praised Ruiz's adaptability, "That's right, in this way, Roger Goodell doesn't have to worry about reputation. With a whole season of buffering, my affairs will be played down a lot. .”

Ruiz 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 he can sign a contract 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 was prepared for the price, but it still hurts to let him out, "I see, you can directly send our own financial and external agency to deal with it together. I want to conduct a detailed investigation of the Black Panther's finances, and I don't want any loopholes to appear."

Ruiz responded, "Okay 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 still needs you, boss. to decide."

Yang Cheng rubbed his head with a headache, "I don't have anyone to choose, let's hire an external management company to help, and then make a decision after I completely regain my freedom."

He is now restricted within a 5km range and cannot go out. Of course he can call people over to meet. F~B~I will not make restrictions on this, but Yang Cheng wears electronic shackles on his feet. This thing is "not good-looking." "Of course it doesn't refer to the appearance, mainly because wearing this thing will usually be mistaken for a criminal. Yang Cheng doesn't want to be misunderstood, so it's better not to meet each other.

Ruiz added, "This is not a big problem, an external management company is hired to help supervise, and a contract is enough.

But there is one thing the boss needs to make an early decision about the NFL broadcast rights. "

Yang Cheng raised his eyebrows, "What's going on? Isn't the broadcasting rights of the NFL divided among several major TV stations? I remember that the new contract has not yet come to negotiation."

"That's true, but when I was communicating with Roger Goodell, he specifically mentioned the global webcast of the Thursday night game, as if he wanted to ask if we were interested in this cake."

Yang Cheng became contemplative upon hearing this. According to American time, NFL games can be roughly divided into two categories: afternoon games and night games.

Among them, the afternoon game occupies half of the day on Sunday, and is generally distributed in the two kick-off periods of 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm Eastern Time.

Night games are usually scheduled on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights, which are the "Thursday Night Games", "Sunday Night Games", and "Monday Night Games" that people have watched more in recent years. , the most expensive advertising time on American TV, NFL occupies at least half of the country, one can imagine how profitable NFL is.

Due to the existence of the NFL, the super giant, other sports leagues should try their best to stagger the live broadcast time slots, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation where two tigers fight and one will die, because usually the other sports leagues die.

For example, FOX's MLB live broadcast is mainly arranged on Saturdays, and its ace program is Fox Saturday Baseball (Fox Saturday Baseball);

And ESPN broadcasts the NBA, the core period is Wednesday and Friday nights, especially the two consecutive live broadcasts of the Eastern and Western games on Friday;

As for the NHL, which is exclusively broadcast live on NBC, the main push is Wednesday Night Hockey (Wednesday Night Hockey).

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

The major TV stations and their live broadcast networks and local TV stations cover games in almost every division. In order to make way for college football, the NFL has no Saturday games in the United States except for a few games in the last few weeks of the regular season. There is no way to make money from college football, but this is also conducive to the development of the game of football, which belongs to the field where the rich water does not flow to outsiders.

As the super giant in North American sports events, its broadcast rights cannot be swallowed by one company. Currently, NFL live broadcast rights in the United States are divided among five companies, NBC, FOX, CBS, ESPN and the official NFL Network (NFL Network). network).

This is also in line with the general trend of copyright sales of top sports events in the global market. Heavyweight events tend to be multiple rather than exclusive. For example, three companies in the UK have obtained the live broadcast rights of the Premier League. For example, the NBA also has multiple live broadcasts in the United States, including ESPN. /ABC/TNT/NBA TV is a national sports broadcasting platform.

The five NFL live broadcast giants in the United States divide their rights and interests according to different games and time periods. Among them, NBC has the Sunday night game, which is the game with the best time, and NBC also has the priority to choose each round of the game, as well as the temporary rounds after the regular season. The right to change the live broadcast session.

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

But NBC is not the TV station with the most live broadcasts. FOX Sports and NFL Network cooperated to squeeze out NBC and CBS, and won the rights to broadcast Thursday night games at a cost of 660 million U.S. dollars over four years, plus FOX's Sunday afternoon sessions. As well as the playoffs, they have already ranked first in terms of quantity, and CBS continues 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 television, ESPN not only holds the trump card of NBA games, but also devotes great efforts to the NFL. They have the rights to live broadcast the Monday night game, a playoff wild card game and the All-Star game, but due to The order of selection is late, resulting in relatively limited attractiveness for the number of matches in the Monday night game, 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 size issues, they have not been able to. can do it.

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