"This is … a symphony!!" Little Bill was watching the performance at the opening ceremony of the WCG yesterday. He never thought that Pokemon's music could be played by a symphony orchestra.
Little Bill was mesmerized by the music. Although the Pokemon music stopped and was replaced with music from other games, Little Bill was still mesmerized by it.
Therefore, Little Bill didn't change the channel and continued to watch the program curiously. Gradually, he found out that this was a competition in Hua Xia called WCG. This competition was actually a game competition. It was a competition that gathered all the game experts from all over the world, and Pokemon was one of the events.
Although the first event wasn't Pokemon, but Red Alert, this game attracted Little Bill's attention. He had never played Red Alert before.
After all, to a child, guns, tanks, airplanes, and war were all irresistible temptations. Especially the exciting competition that Li Xiaofeng brought to him at the end, it made little Bill have a strong urge to play Red Alert.
Unlike Pokemon, which didn't have a GB game console, Little Bill had a computer at home. His parents weren't home most of the time, so Little Bill could secretly play computer games.
Therefore, Little Bill immediately decided that he must secretly buy a copy of "Red Alert" home. After Little Bill made up his mind, the Pokemon competition finally began. Then, Little Bill was in a state of incomparable excitement the whole night, watching the Pokemon experts fight.
After the competition ended, Little Bill couldn't calm down for a long time, so he quickly called his friends and told them that they were watching the Pokemon competition on TV. It was an international competition, and there was a team representing the United States, representing the entire United States.
This quickly attracted the curiosity of his friends, so when the competition started the next day, these children turned on the TV under Little Bill's lead … Not only Little Bill, but the millions of viewers who watched the competition yesterday were basically calling their friends and frantically recommending it. Therefore, when the competition started the next day, the number of viewers increased crazily. This also shocked ABH Television.
ABH Television was a small TV station in the United States. How small was it? The highest number of viewers had never exceeded 10 million. It was ranked in the top 10 in the United States. It was basically a small TV station.
It was precisely because ABH Television was small that the live broadcast of WCG was located there, and not the other famous TV stations in the United States.
Yes, that's right. This time, the live broadcast of WCG was not on the TV station in the United States, but on a small TV station. Even Fox, which had a very good relationship with Boss Jia, was the same. Around the world, except for Fusang, which had developed the eSports craze, the live broadcast was basically on small TV stations.
The reason was very simple. According to the Daqian's request, the TV station that bought the live broadcast rights must broadcast the opening ceremony of WCG and all the official competitions without any discounts.
This request sounded normal, but it was simply impossible for a large TV station to do so. After all, the WCG competition started at 10 in the morning and ended at 8 in the evening. Although there were some gaps in between, it was impossible to insert other large-scale TV programs. This led to the TV station having to broadcast the entire WCG competition. There was no other choice.
Some people might say that this was normal. During the Olympic Games, all the sports channels did the same thing.
But the problem was that it was the Olympic Games, and WCG was nothing. A group of children playing video games?
Therefore, it was impossible for the large TV stations to interrupt their normal broadcast for five days just for WCG. Therefore, the plan to sell WCG's broadcast rights to Daxing TV Station was completely impossible. In the end, only a few small TV stations with few viewers were willing to take the risk to acquire WCG.
Anyway, CCTV did not charge them any broadcasting fees. As long as they got a share of the advertising revenue, they would not lose anything.
But now, ABH regretted it. After the live broadcast of WCG on the first day, ABH was pleasantly surprised to find that the number of viewers exceeded 6 million. This was the best result in three years.
Then, when ABH took out this number of viewers, they naturally started to advertise. Although the number was not much, only about 300,000 viewers, it was only four days of advertising revenue.
When ABH thought that they would have to give half of the advertising revenue to CCTV, they felt a little heartache.
However, ABH's heartache was just beginning. As WCG continued to be broadcasted, and Little Bill continued to call their friends, ABH found that the number of viewers had exceeded yesterday's viewership when the live broadcast of WCG was only halfway through yesterday's broadcast. Moreover, the viewership numbers were still advancing towards their usual unimaginable numbers.
That was because the next night was the most important game of WCG, which was also the time of the Pokemon finals. In the 20 minutes from the end of the "Sword and Saber Divine Realm" qualifiers to the start of the Pokemon finals, ABH's staff saw their viewership numbers soar like crazy. When the host announced the start of the finals, the viewership numbers exceeded 10 million viewers, breaking ABH's all-time record.
The global viewership numbers were even more terrifying. According to statistics, at least 35 million people were watching the live broadcast of the Pokemon finals. This was a number that shocked all the television stations.
Well, although this figure was far from the astonishing figure of 1.8 billion people who watched the live broadcast of Titanic, 35 million was definitely the highest figure for a sports competition.
After all, even the NBA finals were only watched by 40 million people around the world.
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"Director, the number of viewers exceeded 14 million!" In the office of ABH Television, the director was sweating profusely. His eyes were wide open as he listened to the report from his subordinate.
When he heard this number, the director was so happy that he almost laughed out loud. A small ABH station had reached 14 million viewers. In the future, no one would dare to say that ABH was a small TV station.
More importantly, this WCG competition was actually picked up by him without spending a single cent. The ups and downs of life were nothing more than this!
The reason why ABH Television was able to reach 14 million viewers was because the Pokemon finals were coming to an end. Six of the top eight contestants had been eliminated. The winner of the final 1v1 match would be the 1996 Pokemon World Champion.
Most importantly, one of the two contestants was from the United States, while the other was from the Ying State. These two countries were very important to the people of the United States. This was the ultimate showdown between the son and the father. How could the son not give the father a good beating?
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