In 1975, Howard Bill was the ace anchor of"Wireless News" program. But with the death of his wife, his mental state and career are declining. As the ratings of the show continued to fall, the company decided to fire him two weeks later. The head of the news department, Michael Schumacher, is Howard's old friend for many years. He had to tell Howard the news personally, and then they went to the bar to soothe their worries. Howard was depressed suddenly said that he was going to commit suicide on TV. In the live TV broadcast the next day, Howard announced that he was going to commit suicide in the show a week later. This gaffe has caused an uproar in the media, and UBS TV network executives are very angry. Frank Hackett, the chairman of the American Communications Corporation, furious in front of the directors of the TV network, but the keen Michael noticed that the president's spearhead was not simply directed at Howard, but the entire news department under his charge. Due to the decline in the ratings of the news department's programs and serious losses, Frank Huck had long been interested in attacking it. Sure enough, at the board of directors the next morning, Frank Hackett announced the demotion of the press department without authorization. Michael became angry and found the former president of UBS Nelson. However, Nelson, who had no real power, was helpless.
The original plan for the night’s news broadcast was to allow Howard to give a reasonable explanation to the audience for his gaffe the day before. However, Howard, who was deeply hopeless about the future, once again uttered his dissatisfaction and anger with the American national mental state. Michael was at that time. At the scene, he didn't stop Howard when he was in a complicated mood. Instead, he let out Howard's indignation.
Diana Christson is an ambitious young female producer at UBS. She is a workaholic, sharp-minded, decisive in situations, and good at using men. She has planned a rather adventurous TV show——Using The action video taken by the terrorists themselves was made into a series of violence programs similar to "Real TV". She was very interested in the "Howard Incident" and found it could be used, so she sought the ratings survey results to persuade Frank Hackett, the chairman of UBS who had an ambiguous relationship with her. Howard's "freak" live broadcast accidentally caused a straight rise in ratings. Frank Hackett also felt profitable, so he decided to support it. After Howard Beal's show was broadcast, it evoked a strong response. Quite a few people feel that this program is nondescript. Not only can it not increase the ratings, but it may further reduce the ratings. Only Diana saw the business opportunity and the bright prospect of a surge in ratings. In her own words: let him go on nonsense. The Howard Bill's show continues to air, and the debate about whether the show should continue or not continues. Both Max and Frank expressed concern about continuing to air the show, and Diana insisted that the prospects of this show are promising. However, these controversies seem unimportant. Bill's "nonsense" reveals too many bigwigs' privacy. The bigwigs can't sit still. They decided to bow first and then let Arthur Jason come forward and give Bill some advice. ". Howard Bill received the admonishment and naturally did not dare to continue nonsense. The style has been changed to conformist, and even has a few flavors. The big guys will naturally have no objections. But viewers who live in extremely exaggerated depression and fear watch TV for venting, so there is no way to listen to the "sermon". The ratings of Bill's show are declining rapidly, and a new show that can replace Bill's show is really not found for a while. Finally, Diana, who supported the Bill's show, can't sit still, for the anger caused by Bill's disappointment, in order to save it. The ratings, Diana made up her mind: Bill must die. So, there was a gunshot in the studio, and Bill died. New hot spots appeared, and the ratings stopped falling and stabilized.
