Chapter 332: Shop around
Suddenly.
Huaxia Fang can only temporarily put aside the original intention to purchase the copyright of TV station variety shows, and instead pass Luo Yingxi's PD, who had copyright cooperation in "New Journey to the West" before, to test Shen Zhengyuan's views on the copyright of TV dramas.
After all, TV dramas are different from variety shows, variety shows pay attention to the long stream, as long as there are stable ratings as support, it is almost common to do it in the last year or two. TV series are different, except for a few long-form TV series, almost only a dozen or two months at most.
It is precisely because of this time limit that the website has to speed up the pace to discuss the copyright of the TV series.
Of course, there is another point that will not be said, and the personal quotation in the Huaxia video website without copyright is also a big problem. Although, for one reason or another, this aspect of the problem has become a gray area, but the website is also worried that if the copyright is not purchased in time, there will be a situation where videos are flying all over the sky.
As a result of the impact on the website's revenue, South Korean television often buys overseas rights in advance after only the first two episodes of the TV series are broadcast, or it is not broadcast at all.
As for why Shen Zhengyuan's "Producer" did not adopt such a copyright purchase method, or because the cable station had no experience in producing TV dramas before, Huaxia was not sure whether it would succeed or fail, or simply did not know the news that Al Jazeera was producing TV series.
As mentioned earlier, Huaxia's video media website is not dominated by NAVER like South Korea, on the contrary, since the birth of the video website, there has been a competitive situation of hundreds of schools of thought, however, after the fierce competition of online media in the first few years and the checks and balances of Huaxia officials, it has caused the current situation of several strong powers.
And this time, the person who contacted Shen Zhengyuan was Tencent Video, a video website owned by Huaxia's largest communication software.
Speaking of which, in terms of cooperation with the copyright of South Korean variety TV dramas, Tencent Video is actually not the most famous or representative one, but its own family has strong funds, so it has become the main force in the purchase of the copyright of South Korean TV drama variety shows on the Huaxia website in recent times.
Even SBS's "Running Man" has been bought from another company and distributed to it.
"The issue of copyright, because the TV station has no experience in this area before, so Luo Yingxi PD, you called me all of a sudden and asked, and I couldn't make a decision right away, but theoretically speaking, since the TV station produces TV dramas, any party is welcome to negotiate and discuss copyright issues......"
Tencent Video expressed its intention to buy the copyright of "The Producer", but Shen Zhengyuan would not be stupid enough to hand over the copyright directly to the other party.
Shen Zhengyuan still knows the strategy of shopping around.
"Intention is enough. Hearing the prevarication in Shen Zhengyuan's words, Luo Yingxi didn't say much, he made this call only out of the previous variety show copyright partnership, polite approach, in fact, no matter whether Shen Zhengyuan chose to cooperate with the website or refused in the end, it had little to do with Luo Yingxi.
He has done what should have been done.
However, since they have already talked to Shen Zhengyuan on the phone, Luo Yingxi can't help but talk about matters related to "New Journey to the West".
"The first season of "New Journey to the West" had a strong response on naver TV and Huaxia's Tencent Video, and the click-through rate exceeded one million, tvN has already expressed to me the idea of editing the first season of "New Journey to the West" and broadcasting it on the channel, but I didn't agree. ”
In fact, "New Journey to the West" is a program filmed by Luo Yingxi, even if he really broadcasts it on tvN, Shen Zhengyuan can't say anything, because the production team and filming process of the entire show are under Luo Yingxi's full control, Shen Zhengyuan has arranged a group of staff to learn, but the soul of a show is still PD, especially a variety show like "New Journey to the West", which is completely filmed by acquaintances, if a group of production teams are replaced, the original effect may not be filmed at all.
However, the reason why Luo Yingxi didn't do this is because he explained at the beginning that the show "New Journey to the West" is not only his, but also Shen Zhengyuan, the producer.
At the beginning, it was because he was worried about the problem of the program broadcast platform, so Luo Yingxi switched to broadcasting the program on a video website like naver TV at the suggestion of Shen Zhengyuan, and the facts have also proved that because of the liberalization of the Internet platform, the content of the first season of "New Journey to the West" is more free and casual and full of highlights.
From a certain point of view, Na Young-seok's position within tvN is quite transcendent, and this detachment is not in anything else, it is purely supported by popular variety shows one by one. Almost 90% of the variety shows that can be won now are from Luo Yingxi's hands.
It is precisely because of this reason that although Luo Yingxi and Shen Zhengyuan cooperated to produce the variety show "New Journey to the West", tvN was helpless. Because they are really worried that if Luo Yingxi is forced to be anxious, the other party will leave directly, and as soon as Luo Yingxi leaves, tvN's good situation that it has managed to hold up will completely collapse.
When the time comes, it will really be like crying without tears.
As for tvN, there is some competition between cable stations, but it is necessary to maintain peace on the surface. In particular, Shen Zhengyuan also hopes to use "New Journey to the West" to maintain Luo Yingxi's connections, and even poach this representative PD of South Korea to his own TV station one day in the future.
Therefore, before that, try to maintain Luo Yingxi's favorability, or not to hurt the relationship with tvN, so as not to force Luo Yingxi to choose a side.
"It's not completely impossible to cut out the first season of "New Journey to the West" and broadcast it on tvN. At present, Al Jazeera's variety shows are developing smoothly, and the latest "Brother I Know" is also methodically maintaining a high level of ratings, because Shen Zhengyuan has not shown much ambition for the TV version of "New Journey to the West".
Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the program has already been broadcast once through the platform of naver TV, and the income from the secondary TV broadcast rights is not large.
"However, I hope that Luo Yingxi PD you can continue to make content about the second season of "New Journey to the West" ......"