Chapter 70 ATV Elite
Hong Kong Asian TV.
Listening to the busy sound from the receiver of the phone, Li Zhaohua was stunned and couldn't speak for a long time.
"Ahua, what did Mr. Zhang Shaoping say?"
"Ahua?"
Everyone who was waiting for the good news was looking forward to Li Zhaohua, but suddenly saw him in a daze and screamed twice without any response. Everyone's heart suddenly became cold.
The financial director Tu Yongxiong stepped forward and snatched the receiver, hung it on the landline with a clang, and blamed him, "Ahua, what are you doing? A Lie didn't respond when he called you."
Li Zhaohua finally came back to his senses. He smiled bitterly and said, "I haven't encountered this situation for a long time. I can't adapt for a while, so I was distracted just now."
Deputy General Manager and Director-General Li Zhuang-chan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What did Zhang Shaoping say? Refusing to accept your apology?"
"He accepted the apology, but he refused the release of the series."
Li Zhaohua explained, repeating Zhang Shaoping's words in a few words.
Li Zhaoxiong said angrily: "This guy is too arrogant, right? We all apologize, what else does he want?"
"It's unreasonable. Although this person is successful in his youth, he is said to be very good at being a human being and has no bad reputation." Zhang Shaoping's attitude made Tu Yongxiong puzzled.
"A good reputation does not mean that he has no temper. I think he thinks that ATV's apology is not sincere enough, so he is now venting his anger on us." Xu Xiaoming said thoughtfully.
"Sincerity? We even fired people, isn't it sincerity enough? Does he want us to come and beg him in a low voice?" Li Zhaoxiong said in displeasure.
Xu Xiaoming said helplessly: "This is not a bad idea. Who told us that the current situation is worse than before?"
Xu Xiaoming revealed the current dilemma of ATV in one sentence. The few people here were silent when they heard this and had nothing to say.
The predecessor of ATV was Lite TV. Lite TV was not only the first TV station in Hong Kong, but also the first TV station in the Chinese region. It dominated the entire Hong Kong before the 1970s. It was not until 1967 that the emergence of the TVB TV station began to break its monopoly and used free viewing and color broadcasting to surpass Lite TV's ratings, forcing Lite to change to free broadcasting in 1973.
In addition to the once flashy Jiayi TV station, Hong Kong TV has always been the competition between the two strong players of ATV. The tug-of-war for more than ten years has brought the audience a series of exciting TV programs, which will make everyone feast for the eyes.
But all this finally changed completely last year. Lidean TV's parent company failed to invest in a laundry factory, thus shrinking its business in East Asia and selling its equity to three Australian consortiums. As the saying goes, once the emperor is the emperor and the ministers are. Since the person is changed, the change of interests and rights will naturally become more and more serious, resulting in administrative chaos, internal conflicts, and a large number of film and television talents.
At that time, Li's TV station was able to shoot TV series that compete with wireless, relying on a large number of front and behind-the-scenes staff such as General Manager Huang Yizhao who were familiar with the Hong Kong TV market. When all these elite characters were forced to be exposed, Li's TV station was damaged and almost emptied. Under the pressure of low ratings, low advertising and financial problems, the already in a hurry finally couldn't stand it and resold Li's TV station to Qiu Degen of Far East Group.
After Qiu Degen took over, the first step was to rename Li's TV station to Asian TV station, hoping to revive Li's previous strength and dominate the Asian TV industry. The second step was to hire elite talents in the television field.
The first thing that Qiu Degen thought of was of course to invite the talented people who left Qianli, but now it is different from the past. After leaving Lili, Xiao Sheng turned to join the wireless and quickly gained a foothold in the wireless. He has become a "fat and thin TV strongman" with Wang Tianlin, and is Shao Yifu's right-hand man; and the two golden combinations of McDonald and Xiao Ruoyuan have become the upstarts in the film industry, and the box office reputation of "The Beautiful Girl" is both good; as for Shi Nansheng, he and his husband Xu Ke, entered the New Art City and became one of the seven monsters in the New Art City.
In this situation, Qiu Degen had to settle for the second best, and did not hesitate to recruit Li Zhuanglie from the film industry as deputy general manager and director producer, and promoted Xu Xiaoming to program manager, Li Zhaohua as director of marketing and development, Tu Yongxiong as financial director, Li Zhaoxiong as director of publicity, and another artist department manager, He Minyi, to form a six-person group.
Unfortunately, although Qiu Degen is ambitious and his six-member team is working together, things have changed. Taking advantage of the civil strife of Li, the TVB, which snatched away a large number of talents, and with a raging momentum, beat ATV to retreat step by step and be defeated. Half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and ATV still has no improvement. Not only has its advertising revenue sharply decreased, but even the release of dramas has been repeatedly blocked.
Under such circumstances, these ATV elites are really not upright and will not be able to stand up to publishers like Zhang Shaoping. If it were any TV series produced by Li Di two years ago, no matter which one was a big sale, there would be no worries about not having a publisher come to the door.
"Amin is right. Since he has something to ask for, he must do enough etiquette! Don't he want sincerity? Ah Hua and I will come to the door later, leaving him with nothing to say."
Li Zhuanglie is a very real person. For the sake of his inner self, he can definitely give up his face.
"I'm afraid it's not a matter of sincerity, but that they don't want to deal with us at all." He Minyi expressed her worries.
However, when Li Zhuanglie heard this, he stood up and smiled distractedly: "Then we should explore his words even more! I don't believe it anymore. A businessman will turn away business."
It was already eight o'clock in the evening, but the six people seemed to be exhausted and were still busy.
Li Zhuanglie and Li Zhaohua had just entered the elevator when they suddenly heard footsteps sounded. Xu Xiaoming trotted and chased after him, shouting anxiously: "Wait for me! I'll go too!"
Looking at Xu Xiaoming who was rushing to chase after him, Li Zhuanglie felt strange and asked: "The two dramas "A River of Spring Water Flowing East" and "My Sister's Female Flying Hair Shop" will be broadcast the day after tomorrow. Don't you need to coordinate with the various departments?"
"Just leave it to Zhaoxiong and others for publicity. I want to accompany you. Maybe I can help you later." Xu Xiaoming replied.
The three of them came to the parking lot. Before getting on the car, Li Zhuanglie asked: "Aming, can that Zhang Shaoping really release the drama to the mainland?"
Xu Xiaoming could hear the strong suspicion in Li Zhuanglie's tone. He couldn't help but look at Li Zhuanglie in confusion and asked: "Didn't we analyze it? Zhang Shaoping made a fortune in the mainland and must have a close relationship with the political and business in the north. Otherwise, the magazine he made would not have been so well-founded about the film and television market in the north."
Xu Xiaoming is also a thoughtful person. He can see many tricks and business opportunities from a few short messages in the magazine.
"Analysis is analysis after all, and most of the time it cannot be done accurately."
"Alie, you're too worried! If Zhang Shaoping has no way in the mainland, what's the use of releasing dramas? Will it be released to Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia?" Li Zhaohua said in.
Li Zhuanglie smiled and said, "I am too nervous, but I am worried about gains and losses."
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In the apartment, Zhang Shaoping hung up Li Zhaohua's phone number and turned around and forgot about it.
"Brother, do you look at the Superman I painted? "The little girl held the painting she had just finished, raised her little face, and looked at Zhang Shaoping proudly.
"Well, it's very similar, but it's not as good as your sister Min. You have to draw better, you know." Zhang Shaoping praised and sent the little girl away. When he heard the word "Superman", he thought of animation. This is also a very profitable and enduring industry.
At this time, the animation industry had begun to flourish. For example, "Old Master" had been put on the screen, theatrical version, live-action version, and animation version, and was very popular with everyone. For example, "Superman", "Iron Arm Astro Boy" and "Tinker Bell" are also children's favorites, and they often don't even eat supper.
Thinking of this, Zhang Shaoping couldn't sit still, walked back to the study, spread out the paper, and wrote a plan. He thought of games from cartoons and comics. This was an era of poor entertainment. Many classic games have never even been heard of. For example, the very popular Tetris, which was still lying in the head of a Russian, has not yet been born. If he developed it first, this would not be Tetris, this is Tetris.
Chapter completed!