America 1919-Chapter 682

Chapter 682: 235.

Personnel changes at ABC (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)_3 Chapter 682: 235.

Personnel changes at ABC (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)_3 Joseph Schenck, after some thought, stood up and extended his hand, saying, “I see no reason to decline your invitation, Mr.

Block!”

Donnie revealed a smile and also extended his hand, saying, “On behalf of ABC, I welcome your joining!”

After Joseph Schenck agreed to join ABC, Donnie also shared with him the current situation at ABC and sought his thoughts on the matter.

Of course, what Donnie was asking was how ABC should respond to KDKA’s radio dramas.

Joseph Schenck confidently smiled and said, “That’s simple, radio dramas aren’t patented works.

Since KDKA can do it, we naturally can too, and we have advantages they lack, which is Hollywood.

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We can totally recruit some professional Hollywood scriptwriters to write similar radio dramas for us and with our vast pool of actors in Hollywood, I believe they will create some surprises!”

Donnie understood what Joseph Schenck meant, which was essentially to copy!

However, Donnie didn’t think there was anything inappropriate about this, as they were copying the show format, not their content.

But Donnie had his own ideas too!

“Your idea is fine, but I hope our radio dramas will follow a serialized format…”

Essentially, what Donnie now proposed was to broadcast radio dramas in the style of television serials.

Having listened to a few of KDKA’s radio dramas over the past few days, Donnie noticed that although their radio dramas also revolved around a set of fixed characters, they leaned more towards situational comedies with the same few people, and each episode featured a different story, with the only connection being those few characters.

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Joseph Schenck quickly grasped Donnie’s concept.

Even though television serials hadn’t appeared in this world yet, there were novels, so as Joseph Schenck understood it, the task was to script a coherent radio drama story to be broadcast episode by episode.

Donnie nodded and said, “Exactly!”

Joseph Schenck looked at Donnie with admiration.

While everyone was still exploring ways to broadcast radio dramas, Donnie had already conceived a mature model.

Previously, like most people, Joseph Schenck believed that Donnie’s success in founding ABC was mostly because he was ahead of everyone else, reaping the pioneer’s benefits of the industry.

But at that moment, Joseph Schenck realized that Donnie had a deep understanding of the industry.

Joseph Schenck felt relieved for the other commercial radio stations, grateful that Donnie hadn’t put all his energy into ABC; otherwise, there would be no space for other American commercial radio stations to survive!

Then, Donnie shared with Joseph Schenck another astonishing idea.

“In addition, I want to create a special program on ABC to enrich our evening lineup!”

Donnie continued to explain his plan to Joseph Schenck!

Currently, ABC held three trump card shows in hand: UFC in spring, Miss America in summer, and the Gambling Techniques competition about to be held in winter.

Of course, whether the winter Gambling Techniques competition could become a trump card show would have to be verified after the competition started.

Yet regardless, the autumn time slot remained empty, and although there were various sports events providing some coverage, they belonged to partners, not Starry Media’s own programs.

With the emergence of radio dramas, there was an opportunity to fill this gap, but most programs taking shape would have to be year-round.

In Donnie’s view, it was possible to first broadcast the radio dramas in autumn as a trial.

Beyond these, what ABC truly lacked were evening programs.

It was precisely KDKA’s move that convinced Donnie to add a real trump to ABC’s evening lineup!

“What do you mean, boss?”

Joseph Schenck looked at Donnie with some confusion.

Donnie took out a proposal from his drawer and handed it to Joseph Schenck, saying, “This is a program I’ve been planning these last few days.

Take a look!”

Joseph Schenck took the proposal from Donnie’s hand.

On the cover were just four words, “Ten Millionaire.”

“Ten Millionaire”?

In reality, it was the future version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

But a million US dollars was just too extravagant at that time, so Donnie had modified it to “Ten Millionaire.”

“By inviting the national audience to New York to participate in a knowledge quiz through the ‘Atlantic City Post’…” Joseph Schenck read the content of the proposal, his expression first one of curiosity, but as he read further, he started to become visibly excited.

“To increase the show’s fairness, we will create a real live studio, not only for contestants but also for the audience.

And with external phone-a-friend options, we can fully enhance the participation of other audiences by then…”

As Joseph Schenck earnestly read through the proposal, Donnie explained to him the details within.

“Boss?”

After finishing the entire content of the proposal, Joseph Schenck looked at Donnie with eyes full of admiration and said, “You aim to keep all the American listeners glued to their radios!”

“So, you think the program is good too?”

Donnie asked with a confident smile.

“It’s more than good!” Joseph Schenck exclaimed, “To be honest, if I had seen this show, I might have signed up to participate myself!”