Chapter 805 Non-Competition Clauses

Daddy, it's Daddy! "

Little Robb is getting bigger and bigger, and he can already recognize that the person singing on the screen is his own father, clapping his hands in front of the TV with a childish voice, very happy.

"Daddy is leaving."

Song Ya went downstairs wearing a coat and hugged him up, "Will you miss me? Huh?"

Little Robb stared at the real man for a few seconds, then turned his head away to ignore him.

"Haha, don't be shy..."

Song Ya put him down, walked to the door, and waved back to his son, "Say goodbye to Daddy?"

"goodbye."

Well, yes, she looks more and more like herself, Song Ya went out satisfied, raised her head to say hello to Xue Linfen at the window on the second floor, and hurried to the next announcement city.

In this era of influence, especially MTV, which has great influence on young people, after broadcasting the unplugged concert, the outside world recognized my singing skills, and the popularity of the six new songs plus old songs has increased a lot. By the way It also drove the sales of some debut albums and the original soundtrack of Dancing Out of My Life.

Brenda has finally been matched by the audience and the female singer who has danced many times in the soundtrack of my life, and her popularity has rebounded a lot.

The lovely Chicago Children's Choir, who played last, received the greatest praise, and the cross-border cooperation between the two parties for Be What You Wanna Be is perfect.

In terms of the second album, I Gotta Feeling quickly rose to the fourth place in the singles list, below Janet Jackson's Runaway, and will definitely surpass it next week. The top two are still Mariah Carey's Fantasy and Gangstas Paradise. The album list won the first place, and the sales data still maintained a very steady increase, and the stamina was bottomless. Mariah Carey's Daydream fell to the third place. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness of the Smashed Pumpkins took The capital of the dark horse parachuted into the second place.

Now the outside world calls him and Mariah Carey a money-grabbing couple, and the two can occupy a huge space in the music media.

'boom! '

In a football game in Chicago, he was in charge of the halftime performance and watched the field with a smile in the box. The kick-off guest was Underwood. The enthusiastic applause of the fans at the scene.

"The view here is good."

Claire did not appear on the sidelines to accompany her husband to make public appearances, but stayed in this ultra-luxury bag to entertain guests, "Please allow me to thank you, APLUS."

"No, no, don't thank me, thank Ms. Sloan."

Song Ya smiled and said to Sloan, who rarely wore a sexy dress beside her.

This box was set up by Sloan's former lobbyist company in a roundabout way. In the future, it is Claire who actually controls and uses it. In order to avoid the rule that the value of gifts to politicians should not exceed 50 dollars, this box is a so-called discount from a leather bag party company. commodity.

The ball game is on, but the box has not yet found customers, so it makes sense to sell it for $49.99, right? The fine wine, lobster, and caviar prepared in the private room are already full of cold dishes, and the cold dishes are also included. Anyway, if they can’t be sold, they will be thrown out after the expiration date. Then there will be another cleaning fee, so it’s better to give it away , a reasonable business choice, right?

Claire only spends 49.99 knives at a time, in exchange for a simple small ticket like a fast food restaurant discount coupon, and then can bring friends here on the days when there are games to spend the discounted box with difficulty, taste expired food and drinks Oh, what a thrifty politician's wife.

What? Wine also expires? Didn't save it well, poor management, business mistakes, mistakes.

Of course, there must always be someone who really pays, and that is the account issue between Song Ya's company and the lobbyist company.

"Peter Flock..."

"Peter Flock..."

"Alicia..."

Everyone in the box was talking about the Illinois gubernatorial election. Voting will begin in late November, and the ballots will be counted at the end of the month. There is not much time left. The gap between Peter and his opponents is very, very small, which makes the donkeys worried.

"Hey, thank you, thank you...haha, I've practiced before."

At the beginning of the game, Underwood finally appeared in the box. He smiled and greeted everyone one by one, "How is your TV station?"

"Not good, the ratings are not up to the standard, it's not that it's not up to the standard, it's just that we may not be able to get good channel resources from Comcast."

Song Ya told the truth.

"That's not good news, is it? Plus Comcast's recent announcement following a corporate strategy seminar."

Underwood was really paying attention to his TV station, "You heard about it too?" Song Ya asked.

"certainly."

With the successful listing of Internet companies one after another, the surrounding industries have also been driven up, and the situation is very good. Comcast decided to stop the expansion in the direction of the TV network and instead focus on network infrastructure, such as the old bank. Laying of dedicated network lines.

This is bad news for A+CN, because its potential subscribers follow the total number of access users of Comcast's TV network. If Comcast does not expand, the plate it can eat in the future will be smaller.

"What are you going to do?" Underwood asked.

"Well……"

Song Ya didn't know what to do, she shrugged her shoulders and replied with a bitter face: "When A+CN officially gets the channel resources, I plan to spend a year's money next year, publicity and promotion, subscriber gifts, in short, use all available tricks, Then leave it to fate."

"It seems to be the only way."

Underwood thought for a while, "Your guess is probably the best."

"The best is probably just a TV station between the second and third rates, unless the legal channel like NBC meets the big pie that fell from the sky like the Simpson case."

Song Ya said, "That's the only way."

"That's a pity." Underwood's words may be from the heart, "Okay, let's not talk about these unhappy things. When it comes to NBC, you must have heard the jokes in his family recently, right? ?”

"certainly."

NBC had previously driven away its senior manager with a lot of bad records, that is, Roger Ailes, a well-known conservative media personality who was the hero of the financial channel CNBC and built the predecessor of MSNBC News. They knew Roger Ailes well. He didn't know how to force him to sign a non-compete clause before leaving, which was tantamount to driving him out of the TV industry.

Unexpectedly, Roger Ailes turned around and got a job at FOX. NBC immediately launched a lawsuit, but the latest judgment came as a surprise. NBC lost the lawsuit because one of the competition clauses does not allow Roger Ailes to work in any company' Existing 'television stations re-employment.

And Roger Ailes took advantage of this clause to cooperate with Murdoch, the media tycoon behind FOX. Murdoch opened a new TV station for him, Fox News. The scope of any existing TV station noted.

NBC made a big joke. I heard that General Electric CEO Jack Welch behind it was extremely angry and bloodbathed NBC's legal department.

"Actually, your A+CN also belonged to any existing TV station at that time." Underwood joked.

"Ha ha."

Song Ya was also amused. Old conservatives like Roger Ailes would never find employment at a 24-hour black news station...

The current situation is that the passage of the telecommunications bill next year is a high probability event. The 24-hour news stations of FOX and the three major wireless stations have gradually emerged. NBC is the first to move, and MSNBC, which they cooperated with Microsoft, is already The state of the whole army is ready to go. ABC, which was acquired by Disney, is second. The name of their news station has taken away what I originally planned. FOX News is third, and CBS is at the bottom of the list.

Other small and medium-sized operators such as A+CN have also followed suit and created similar channels, but their influence is very low, and they do not constitute any threat to the first four stations plus the existing CUU.

"APLUS, it's time to prepare."

Linda came over to remind, "Time is tight."

"Okay, then I'll go backstage, Mr. Underwood." Song Ya hurriedly left the box.