Creating Your Own Broadcaster

[Matt_Black]

I'm getting close to this point myself. My question- Prime Time slots for your shows, right?

[thadian]

I wanted to see if anyone has managed to build up enough resources (moolah) to start their own broadcaster. Did you give yourself a "loan" or earn it the hard way? What's the name of it? Did you make a PPV, Commercial, Free-To-Air, or Subscription network? What did you set your initial coverage size to be and in what areas? Have you seen any big gains using your own broadcaster? Did you give your developmental promotion a TV show if you have one?

 

I've been building my company up and we have $33 million. At the very least I want to start the network with Huge coverage in the USA and Medium in Canada. That'd be $44.5 million to create. I was thinking of going with a Subscription network. I believe I would still show my monthly events for each brand on PPV or switch off every month with one brand getting the PPV and the other being shown on the network.

 

I have two developmental promotions and I'm going to start a third brand (minor as opposed to the two major currently) when we're able to start our own network. I'd like to be able to give the developmental promotions a TV show, as well as promote our third brand as a step in between developmental and the main roster.

 

First of all, if you own a broadcaster, you cannot negotiate with other companies in the same region. So, if you make an America broadcaster, you cannot get deals with the big American companies! You lose your "huge" and "very big" coverage to gain "tiny". Neat, huh? I started by making my own network cover Mexico and Australia, a few cheap places that I almost never get coverage in anyway. I created a subscription network but I am having second thoughts about that.

[James Casey]

While I'm a long way off this in any of my current games, I am curious about the mechanics.

 

If you start with a Tiny network covering one game area, can you increase its size later? I know it's more expensive to expand into new areas post-founding; I'm assuming that the same penalty applies to increasing your size?

 

Also, does network size affect anything other than ratings (and, by extension, income)?

[shawn michaels]

I'm getting close to this point myself. My question- Prime Time slots for your shows, right?

 

Yes. It's your network, you can do whatever you want, so choosing the best slots would be the best, of course.

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>While I'm a long way off this in any of my current games, I am curious about the mechanics.<p> </p><p> If you start with a Tiny network covering one game area, can you increase its size later? I know it's more expensive to expand into new areas post-founding; I'm assuming that the same penalty applies to increasing your size?</p><p> </p><p> Also, does network size affect anything other than ratings (and, by extension, income)?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You can definitely expand. Both in size and coverage. So you could start a Tiny network with US coverage only. And as you have the money, grow the size of the network in the US and expand outside the US. But - and this is a big BUT - its more expensive. As massively expensive as opening a Very Big network would be, its more expensive to start smaller and upgrade. So you have to make a tactical decision whether its better to open it and then expand (more costly, but you have the network sooner) or save up and open it later. </p><p> </p><p> You cannot change the type of network, however. So if you pick one model because its best for your company at that time, it could be problematic down the road. I think you can sell the network and open a new one, but that would probably be a net loss, money-wise.</p>

[Irish Wolf]

I do it in the RtG challenge. Really you just buy it at the smallest as soon as possible and you can pay to increase its size and coverage in other areas. Its worth it every time.

[Matt_Black]

Here's another question- when you have that sweet, sweet TV set up, what do you do about picking the physical venue? Do you stay in your home region? I just started one, and it's going well, and I want to add a B show, but the pop in other areas is still fairly low still (I've a C+ in the Northwest, my home, and E- in the nearest spillover regions). If I do a second show, I want the gate to raise in enough money that I can start upgrading ASAP.

[Irish Wolf]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Matt_Black" data-cite="Matt_Black" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here's another question- when you have that sweet, sweet TV set up, what do you do about picking the physical venue? Do you stay in your home region? I just started one, and it's going well, and I want to add a B show, but the pop in other areas is still fairly low still (I've a C+ in the Northwest, my home, and E- in the nearest spillover regions). If I do a second show, I want the gate to raise in enough money that I can start upgrading ASAP.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I keep it in my home region until overness evens out. At least for my workers. If you've been running exclusively in the NW then your workers are only really going to be over there. When you run elsewhere the shows will be based say on their overness in the Tri-State, or Mid South. And so your shows will have sucky ratings which may boost your popularity in the other US regions but will lower your popularity in your home region. Until your workers can put on the same level of show away from home as they do at home don't run anywhere else.</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I keep it in my home region until overness evens out. At least for my workers. If you've been running exclusively in the NW then your workers are only really going to be over there. When you run elsewhere the shows will be based say on their overness in the Tri-State, or Mid South. And so your shows will have sucky ratings which may boost your popularity in the other US regions but will lower your popularity in your home region. Until your workers can put on the same level of show away from home as they do at home don't run anywhere else.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Actually this makes more sense than I realized. Bands don't usually do World Tours until they have fan bases in the places they are touring. The same goes for Wrestling companies. NXT never did tours until they have gotten their overness in the other regions as high as it was in Orlando.</p>

[dpoolez]

<p>In my recent created fed game, I just gave myself a "loan" to create a broadcaster.</p><p> </p><p>

It works out because in my head canon of the User Avatar for myself, the company has a group of rich investors and the User character has a fortune in Cryptocurrency due to getting in at the start.</p><p> </p><p>

I actually dont feel bad and this save has been the most fun I've had with my user fed in a long time. For me, the journey from Regional to Cult is too grind-ey and time consuming to keep me interested. Once I build my roster to where I'm pulling B- shows regularly, I feel ready to jump to Cult.</p>

[K-Nection]

<p>I'm sorry for resurrecting an old thread but how do you add your child company onto your broadcaster? (I'm just now playing around with the feature)</p><p> </p><p>

Edit: I answered my own question. Just select your child company and then select view own broadcaster. I feel like an idiot!</p>

[James Casey]

<p>As this has been bumped anyway...</p><p> </p><p>

What happens to existing TV deals if you start a broadcaster with coverage in an area you already have TV deals? I presume you can't just move existing shows onto your network, but have to wait for the end of the contract, so they continue airing as normal.</p><p> </p><p>

As WCW, I have the following setup:</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Saturday Night (A show)</strong></p><p>

USA - Very Big/Commercial</p><p>

Canada - Tiny/Commercial (only 4 regions)</p><p>

Japan - Medium/Commercial</p><p>

Europe - Small/Commercial</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Main Event (B show)</strong></p><p>

USA - Very Big/Commercial</p><p>

UK - Huge/Commercial </p><p>

Europe - Small/Commercial</p><p> </p><p>

So starting a Medium commercial broadcaster with coverage in Mexico, Canada and UK would let me build popularity in those areas. I could put my A show on them and cancel the existing Canada deal (13 episodes left, don't know if that would cause troubles but I can wait to put my A show on if so).</p><p> </p><p>

That would cost me $25 million as a startup fee, but it's far beyond any coverage I can manage without intensive touring in those regions.</p><p> </p><p>

My concern is that I've only gone up 2% in Japan in ~ 2 months under my existing deal, even putting out A-rated shows almost every week. It doesn't seem likely I'll make that money back quickly with a Commercial setup in countries where I'm even less popular.</p><p> </p><p>

Also, my Japanese contract expires in 17 episodes. I should probably add Japan to the network, but that's an extra $8 million <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I have $33.25 million in the bank, so may be best waiting for a month or two before committing $33 million on something like this <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p>

I'd have my A and B shows airing on any network, plus TV shows for each developmental territory. Is there any way to gauge how quickly I'd gain popularity running four A shows + a PPV in each month, in regions where I average F+/E-?</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As this has been bumped anyway...<p> </p><p> <strong>What happens to existing TV deals if you start a broadcaster with coverage in an area you already have TV deals?</strong> I presume you can't just move existing shows onto your network, but have to wait for the end of the contract, so they continue airing as normal.</p><p> </p><p> As WCW, I have the following setup:</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Saturday Night (A show)</strong></p><p> USA - Very Big/Commercial</p><p> Canada - Tiny/Commercial (only 4 regions)</p><p> Japan - Medium/Commercial</p><p> Europe - Small/Commercial</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Main Event (B show)</strong></p><p> USA - Very Big/Commercial</p><p> UK - Huge/Commercial </p><p> Europe - Small/Commercial</p><p> </p><p> So starting a Medium commercial broadcaster with coverage in Mexico, Canada and UK would let me build popularity in those areas. I could put my A show on them and cancel the existing Canada deal (13 episodes left, don't know if that would cause troubles but I can wait to put my A show on if so).</p><p> </p><p> That would cost me $25 million as a startup fee, but it's far beyond any coverage I can manage without intensive touring in those regions.</p><p> </p><p> My concern is that I've only gone up 2% in Japan in ~ 2 months under my existing deal, even putting out A-rated shows almost every week. It doesn't seem likely I'll make that money back quickly with a Commercial setup in countries where I'm even less popular.</p><p> </p><p> Also, my Japanese contract expires in 17 episodes. I should probably add Japan to the network, but that's an extra $8 million <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I have $33.25 million in the bank, so may be best waiting for a month or two before committing $33 million on something like this <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> I'd have my A and B shows airing on any network, plus TV shows for each developmental territory. Is there any way to gauge how quickly I'd gain popularity running four A shows + a PPV in each month, in regions where I average F+/E-?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Been playing around with broadcasters all day today so I can answer that first one for you.</p><p> </p><p> You have to wait until your current contracts expire.</p><p> </p><p> From what I observed is that subscription isn't profitable unless you can guarantee that all your shows will be above a 71 rating. Commercial seems to generate money for less popular companies but has a lower ceiling than subscription does.</p><p> </p><p> I'm giving broadcasters a test run by not actually running shows myself but instead creating child companies and letting them be guinea pigs for me. (I have to keep artificially inflating my own pop to keep me at cult) I'm actually making about a million dollars a month with just one regional fed airing an A and B show. What I plan on doing with this game is swoop in and buy any company that is about to go out of business and see if I can keep still making a profit doing what I am doing.</p>

[James Casey]

<p>So, is that a subscription broadcaster you have running? And are you just running your home country, or overseas as well?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

I appreciate the help!</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So, is that a subscription broadcaster you have running? And are you just running your home country, or overseas as well?<p> </p><p> </p><p> I appreciate the help!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Update on my game I'm now in July and have purchased Awesome Max Wrestling and saved them from going under. I fired Trent because he is garbage and now have added them to my commercial broadcaster. I also purchased European World Class Wrestling and am keeping them going as well. My plan now is to actively attempt to poach people who become available from the big 4 (SWF, HGC DAVE and BHOTWG) and distribute them to my regional feds so I can grow them faster. I've hit SWF hard and managed to poach Tommy Cornell, Mr. Supreme, Captain USA and Rory McCallum. From DAVE I have stolen Vengeance, Eric Tyler, J.D. Morgan, Johnny Martin, Michael Cook and Vin Tanner. From HGC I stole Java and Tribal Warrior. I picked on NOTBW as well and managed to acquire Duane Stone, Victoria Stone and Steve Flash who just started there as PPA guy.</p><p> </p><p> I have a commercial broadcaster because I knew regional companies couldn't pull off consistent 71 shows in the beginning. I'm running Huge coverage in the U.S. and very small for the rest of the world. I may in a few days test this out with a subscription based one and see how much money I bleed.</p>

[Bigpapa42]

<p>So I've been mulling this one quite a bit. I am running Burning Hammer of the Wrestling Gods on the default Cverse, but back on a touring schedule. Opened up a developmental company as well. We are on a Big commercial broadcaster for the weekly TV show as well as tour highlights, and on a Very Big PPV carrier for the monthly big events. Have over $25m in the bank and making a decent amount each month, but I hesitate to spend big because of the tsunami narrative that will kill the economy. </p><p> </p><p>

So I'm basically debating between what will be best for company growth, finances, and youth development. In the past, I think I've focused too much on trying to getting a deal that had domestic coverage. Putting the child promotion on TV can really spur the popularity of your prospects, and I mentioned this in the thread before, but I've seen really talented young workers hit like C+ popularity across the US working for a child company that had a TV deal, so they basically walk into the main event scene of a moderately-strong national-sized company. But that's not really necessary here. </p><p> </p><p>

So there are two blocks. One is that domestic coverage would need to be at least Big to make it worth replacing the existing deals. The second is that my TV network has coverage in Hawaii, meaning that it creates a block for getting on a network in the US. Or creating one. </p><p> </p><p>

I am leaning toward creating a Commercial network with coverage in Mexico, Australia, and Canada. No domestic coverage. No US coverage. Commercial makes more sense than subscription due to the low popularity in those regions. I can put both TV and PPV on with no coverage issues, growing the company in those areas. Somewhere down the road, I can move the TV show onto a domestic carrier without Hawaii coverage, so I can add the United States to the coverage. Then I can add Japan after that when I can afford to make it Big coverage or bigger, and transition both TV and event coverage onto the network. The downside to this approach is that expanding the coverage later is expensive. It just seems lite the best balance between working with existing coverage, expanding the company, and making money.</p><p> </p><p>

Anyone see any flaws in the logic? I am way overthinking this lol</p>