Chapter 22 Jiayi TV
As the time came to September, Jiayi TV came to an end in August after a grand offensive in July. On the morning of August 21, 1978, Jiashi announced that it would stop operating due to financial difficulties, and Jiashi would stop broadcasting from now on.
On September 7, Jiayi TV Station faced liquidation, and the bankruptcy administrator of Xiangjiang Huo Si was the liquidator and temporarily took over Jiashi. In the afternoon of the same day, more than 300 Jiashi employees and He Juhua petitioned the Hong Kong Governor's Office to investigate all the responsibilities related to Jiashi and protect the rights and interests of its employees.
The long-awaited opportunity finally came, and on the morning of September 8, he invited Hoth to have tea at the Peninsula Hotel.
After chatting with Hoss for a while, he said to Hoss: "Mr. Hoss, at present, you are the liquidator of Jiashi, and it is not easy for Jiashi to change hands at present, especially after the petition incident yesterday afternoon." ”
Hoss is now worried about the liquidation of Jiashi, and when he heard Li Guangyu ask him, he immediately knew that Li Guangyu had thoughts about Jiashi. So he said to Li Guangyu: "Li Sheng, don't you want to take over Jiayi TV Station?"
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. Hoss, I am also one of the shareholders of Jiayi TV, and I don't want Jiashi to withdraw from the stage of Xiangjiang like this." ”
Huo Si said enthusiastically: "Li Sheng, you are really willing to take over Jiashi, now you only need about 50 million to acquire." At present, the shares of all shareholders of Jiashi are held in escrow by us, including the shares of Li Shengyou. ”
Li Guangyu waited until this moment to make a move, but it was not because of money. said to Hoss: "Although I have the heart to take over Jiashi, but due to some special regulations, Jiashi can't compete with wireless and Li, I can't know that this is a pit and jump into it." ”
After hearing what Li Guangyu said, Hoss knew that he wanted to lift the rule that Jiayi TV must broadcast educational programs for a certain period of time.
Huo Si said to Li Guangyu: "Li Sheng, I can't help you lift some of Jiashi's regulations. However, after yesterday afternoon's petition, the pressure on the Hong Kong Governor's Office must be very great. Now you reach out to some of the people to help clear up the relationship, and you talk to Governor MacLehose. I'm working on it a little harder, and I believe it will relieve you of your troubles in this regard. ”
Li Guangyu knew that there was an opportunity when he heard Hoss say this, so he said to him: "Mr. Hoss, thank you so much, I will contact the Hong Kong Governor's Office as soon as possible, and strive to be able to deal with the trouble of Jiashi for you as soon as possible." ”
In the next few days, Li Guangyu visited He Zuozhi, Luo Cheng, and Li Ka-shing respectively, asking them to come forward to dredge up relations for the lifting of Jiashi's restrictions, and Li Guangyu personally visited the Governor of Xiangjiang, MacLehose.
After a week to negotiate the general conditions, Li Guangyu bid 60 million to buy Jiayi TV Station, and at the same time spent 150 million to acquire Jiayi Building. Educational programs must be broadcast between 10:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., and there are no longer mandatory rules for other time slots.
On September 15, Li Guangyu officially acquired Jiayi TV. At half past nine in the morning, the senior management of Jiashi was already waiting for Li Guangyu's arrival in the conference room. Zhou Liang Shuyi, Liu Tianci, Shi Shaoming, Lu Guozhen, Ye Jiexin, Lin Xuhua and other high-level executives were all excited or apprehensive.
Li Guangyu walked slowly into the conference room, looking at the TV talent elites in place, these will be the foundation of the Li family film and television group.
Li Guangyu said at the meeting: "From today onwards, my Li family will control Jiayi TV, and I will serve as the chairman of the board of directors, Ms. Zhou Liang Shuyi will serve as the general manager, and Bai Jiangting will serve as the company's financial director. Liu Tianci is the creative director, Shi Shaoming is the program director, and Ye Jiexin is the production director,......。 ”
After announcing the company's appointment, Li Guangyu said: "I will invest 200 million Hong Kong dollars in the company for the development of TV stations, and we have lifted the restriction that educational programs must be broadcast from 2 pm to 6 pm and from 9 pm to 10:30 pm. ”
"As a media company, I hope you can uphold the concept of my Xiangyu Group, and report the news with a fair, objective and realistic attitude. At the same time, regardless of whether we treat the mainland or the treasure island, we will report on it equally and impartially. ”
Li Guangyu continued slowly: "In the rest of this year, our Li Group will develop our film company and record company based on the TV station, as well as establish our own cinema chain to form our film and television group. ”
In a meeting of more than an hour, Li Guangyu expounded his plans for the film and television group and some arrangements for the future of the TV station.
After the meeting, Lee went to Chow's office. "I have two ideas for TV programs, the first is our educational program, we ask a history professor from Heung Kong Chinese University to open a hundred forum programs, and the second is a good voice program. ”
After Li Guangyu told Zhou Liang Shuyi about the way of these two programs in the future, Zhou Liang Shuyi told her from her years of experience in the TV station industry that these two programs will definitely have a high cleaning rate, especially the good voice project, which can not only bring ratings to the station, but also discover talents for future record companies.
Zhou Liang Shuyi immediately said to Li Guangyu: "These two ideas of the chairman are very suitable for our TV production, as our fist products after the resumption of Taiwan." I will negotiate with Taili to arrange personnel to start these two projects as soon as possible. ”
Li Guangyu saw that Zhou Liang Shuyi adopted his own opinion and said: "Our Taili Information Department can cooperate with Xiangyu Daily, a subsidiary of Xiangyu Group, to share news with each other. ”
Zhou Liang Shuyi was even happier when she heard Li Guangyu say this, and with the cooperation of Xiangyu Group, the quality of Jiayi TV can be greatly improved in terms of news programs.
After Li Guangyu talked to Zhou Liang Shuyi about the TV station, he came to the office of Bai Jiangting, the chief financial officer.
Bai Jiangting saw Li Guangyu coming to the office and immediately got up and said, "Hello chairman, do you have anything to do?"
Li Guangyu said: "Jiang Ting, the reason why I transferred you from Xiangyu Group is because Manager Zhou Liang Shuyi has a strong work ability and has an extremely keen intuition about the development of the TV industry, but she also has a strong ability to spend money, so I hope you can strictly review the finances of each project in the company." ”
"You can rest assured that I will strictly review the finances of each project and strictly supervise the financial expenses of each project in accordance with the company's requirements. Bai Jiangting said to Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu was much more relieved to see that Bai Jiangting attached great importance to this area.
In the afternoon, he came to Xiangyu Group to tell Li Xuemei about the cooperation between the two companies, and asked Li Xuemei to arrange the cooperation between the two companies in the future.