Chapter 69: Angel Beats, TV Asahi
Katherine handed over the appointment letters of two CEOs from Intel and Apple to Sanders, the president of AMD in the future.
Every time Catherine thinks about AMD's former CEO becoming Intel's CEO, she finds it very interesting.
Sometimes Catherine is a bit wicked and very interesting.
After Sanders took office, he began a sweeping reform.
Firstly, personal computers were drastically reduced in price by $300 across the board, while also launching "zero profit" advertisements.
As soon as this news was released into the market, it caused a huge stir.
IBM held an emergency meeting and Hewlett-Packard appeared to be preparing to make contact with them.
At this time, Sanders did not stop but announced the second generation of Microsoft computers, which would open up the hardware platform and also open up part of the software source code to facilitate other companies developing software and games on the DOS platform.
And Intel and Apple will be more than happy to inform interested hardware manufacturers about the development issues of next-generation application platforms in advance.
At the same time, Sanders also hopes that Blizzard Entertainment can speed up the development of computer games. In terms of game entertainment, it can be said that one of the important reasons for people to buy computers is here.
In terms of corporate structure, due to his difficult childhood and respect for the underclass, he greatly simplified the company's structure, with not many intermediate links between the top layer and ordinary employees.
In history, Sanders was a very loyal person to Fairchild Semiconductor, he can be said to be inseparable, but in the end he was ostracized and left in anger, and founded AMD.
Catherine knew Sanders after all she used to be in software herself and had some understanding of this aspect.
Catherine herself would absolutely never do something as self-destructive as what Xinteng Company did.
Catherine focused her attention on television and film, leaving electronics in the capable hands of Sanders.
AB TV station will adopt those classic angel wings as its logo.
Catherine positioned this TV station as film and entertainment.
Of course, a TV station can't just have one program.
Of course, Catherine could not be responsible for developing all of the programs.
She is preparing for a show - American Idol.
Most of what Catherine makes is based on precedent, otherwise Catherine wouldn't be doing it.
Just like GameTV, in Catherine's time, there were indeed some foreign otakus who could start from scratch, make their own integrated circuits, write their own programs, and produce a Tetris game console with output display. Unlike Catherine, they used LED lights, while Catherine used a TV screen.
American Idol is Catherine's main product.
The original American Idol was a Fox reality show that premiered in 2002, based on the British series Pop Idol. The goal was to find the next big pop star in America. Contestants first auditioned in specific cities, and those selected by judges and guests (who were big names in the music industry at the time) went on to compete in Hollywood.
The domestic "Super Girl", can be said to be a copy of "American Idol" and "Pop Idol".
Catherine expanded the scope of popular songs, basically covering more mainstream music programs, she wanted to produce a big program.
With the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965, Katherine believed her show would sail through.
Things need to be prepared step by step, and Catherine also needs heavyweight figures to join.
She set her sights on the King of Cats - Elvis Presley.
However, after she sent the letter to Cat King, his agent opened his mouth and asked for a million-dollar signing fee.
The Cat King's agent, named Park, or nicknamed "Major Park".
"Major" Parker, though the outside world generally regarded him as a golden agent. But in Catherine's eyes, this guy was an unadulterated vampire, an unadulterated cold-blooded monster.
On May 21, 1977, just before Elvis' death, Elvis was incredibly weak, while Parker was frantic.
"He even bellowed: 'Listen up, the only thing that matters is his performance tonight!'"
It can be said that the death of the Cat King was directed by each other's hands.
And even more ruthless was that after the death of the King, Elvis' faithful fans began to flock from all over the world to Memphis. Parker booked a ticket not to Tennessee but to New York where he met with RCA Records because this company had sold more tapes and records for Elvis than any other artist in history. He accurately predicted that every store across the nation would sell out of Elvis' music recordings within 24 hours. Parker put pressure on RCA Records, raising prices and placing large orders with major record pressing companies to push secondary orders aside and keep the flow of Elvis records going. Then Parker met with a merchant to lower the price of some Elvis merchandise. It wasn't until August 18th, the day of Elvis' funeral, that he finally arrived in Memphis.
Elvis' personal physician, Dr. Nick, prescribed approximately 12,000 pills for Elvis in the last 20 months of his life, which was also requested by Parker and is one of the causes of death of the King of Rock, and the most important one.
Moreover, Parker coldly wanted to snatch Elvis' song copyrights from the King's 11-year-old daughter.
The talent of the cat king was ruined by him, and his health was also ruined by him.
Since 1961, although the King of Cats has been popular all along, his status has been declining, and he has tried to get rid of him many times, but there is no chance.
In a 1977 concert tour, Elvis grossed $35 million, but he ended up so poor that he couldn't afford to go for medical check-ups and had to rely on doctors arranged by Parker, who siphoned off all the funds.
At this moment, Catherine's eyes lit up.
Maybe... I can dig up Cat King myself?
At this time, many singers actually have an attitude towards Park.
"Despise Park but worship him like a savior because singers can't even manage their own lives."
Catherine sent a letter directly to Cat King, bypassing Parker neatly.
She believes that if she does this, the success rate will be higher, even if it's a million dollars, it's worth bringing Elvis Presley over...
Although a lot has been done, on the other hand, the popularity of "Fallout" was overshadowed.
The "Cleopatra" with an investment of $40 million has emerged, and the huge funds have already attracted most people's attention.
This June, "Cleopatra" will be released. The other side is obviously hyping it up!
But Catherine just smiled and said nothing.
The higher it goes, the more you lose!
"Cleopatra" is the biggest investment and also the most disastrous ancient costume epic in Hollywood movie history.
Catherine's film has fully absorbed the lessons of Cleopatra and will absolutely not repeat the same mistakes.
The preparations for the TV station will take until next year, and Catherine is also unlikely to complete everything on her own, so she delegates power and rushes back to the set.
Eastwood is waiting for her there...
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Chapter 16 has been revised.
