Chapter 142: Asia Television (Part II)
"Li's TV changed its name to Asia TV, Xiao Li Sheng is ambitious and vows to be a media tycoon!", Shao Yifu was browsing today's "Sing Tao Evening News" in the car, and the news of Li's TV station changing hands was published in prominent positions on the front lines.
Mr. Li Xiaohe, the former chairman of TVB, died of a heart attack three months ago, and the Li family had no intention of continuing to take charge of the TV station, and the three major British shareholders had no intention of becoming the owner, so Shao Yifu took over as the new chairman of TVB.
In the past few years, Shaw Brothers Pictures has gradually been at a disadvantage in the battle with Golden Harvest, and Shaw Yifu has long been interested in shifting the focus of his career to the television industry. Since he became the chairman of the TV station, he immediately moved his office from the film company to the headquarters of TVB.
Recently, Li's TV station has been able to approach TVB step by step in ratings, in addition to the reason for the excellent TV series, it is also related to the fact that TVB TV has just changed its coach. After Shao Yifu took the position, he always had to make some personnel adjustments within TVB. And as soon as he started to do it, Leigh's TV station slapped him hard with "The Kindness of the Earth".
Shao Yifu had no choice but to ask Wang Tianling to take command urgently and rush to produce a "King of a Thousand Kings", so that Li's rising momentum could be suppressed again. He was just about to continue the internal rectification and completely control TVB. The news of the sudden change of ownership from the competitor may be felt by some people that the transfer of the opponent's equity will definitely cause some turmoil, which is just a chance for Shao Yifu to breathe.
But Shao Yifu didn't feel relaxed at all, Li's TV station looked aggressive before, but it didn't make him feel much pressure. Because the British parent company of Leigh's TV station could not concentrate its main energy on a Hong Kong TV station, the support it could give to Leigh's TV station was very limited.
But now the new boss has been in charge for less than half a day. It has been strongly announced that it will expand the capital of the new ATV, and the cash of 150 million Hong Kong dollars will soon reach the name of the ATV account. This has left ATV in debt. At least for a year, there is no need to worry about the problem of funds, and you can really travel lightly to start hand-to-hand combat with TVB.
Just when Shao Yifu got off work with a frown. Li Xuan, the new boss of ATV, is having a banquet for all the management at the Fu Lin Men Restaurant.
Li Xuan stood up, held his wine glass, looked around at the quiet crowd, and then laughed loudly: "For me, investing in TV stations is not a temporary decision on a whim, nor is it a short-term investment that can be made and left, but I really hope to run ATV into a century-old store."
As the owner of the company, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you for your hard work in the past. At the same time, we sincerely hope that under the chairmanship of Chairman Huang Xizhao and General Manager Zhou Liang Shuyi, and with the sincere cooperation of other colleagues, the new ATV will become an outstanding media that has won the praise of 5 million Hong Kong citizens!"
After Li Xuan finished speaking, everyone stood up at the same time very appropriately, and raised their glasses together. After that, the atmosphere gradually became warmer. At the main table, in addition to several directors of ATV, there are also chief screenwriter Liang Liren, deputy general manager Zhao Xing and others.
The atmosphere at the wine table was very relaxed. Zhou Liang Shuyi talked about various interesting stories about the competitor Boss Shao: "At that time, Shaw Brothers filmed "Feng Feifei", and there was a scene in the film where a martial artist ate fried steamed buns. The drama manager signed a purchase order and asked his subordinates to take it to Uncle Shao Liu for approval, which read, 'Buy 100 fried steamed buns, spend 20 yuan!'.
As a result, Uncle Shao Liu saw that it was wrong. The steamed buns in the Shaw Brothers studio canteen only sell for 1 milli (corner) each, how could it cost 20 yuan, so I wrote 'no approval' and called it back. As a result, all the actors painted their makeup. I can't wait for the props steamed buns, so I can only shoot them later. The crew was delayed for a day. More than 10,000 yuan was lost in vain. It was later found out that the cook in the canteen was temporarily on leave that day. Need to buy outside!"
Everyone laughed for a while, Shao Yifu and another real estate tycoon, Wang Dehui, are the two famous "saving kings" among Hong Kong's richest people. Wong is a member of the Jockey Club and the owner of several racing horses.
Once, Wang Dehui went to the Beas River Club to ride a horse accompanied by a jockey, and as a result, he asked his wife Gong Xinru to cut a pair of old jeans into breeches in advance, which became a big joke in Hong Kong and Kowloon for a while. Boss Wang is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy horses and raise horses, but he is reluctant to spend dozens of yuan to buy a pair of breeches!
"Uncle Shao Liu cherishes talents, but he cherishes wealth even more!Otherwise, he wouldn't have lost a lot of treasures again and again, first Li Long, then Xu Guanwen, and finally let Boss Zou laugh at him in turn, 'He can only catch deer, not take off his horns'!"
Zhao Xing is an old man in the film and television industry, and he is also very fond of these grievances and entanglements. The greatest value of a deer is naturally on the antlers of the head horns. And Shao Yifu's biggest weakness is that he is stingy and fastens the silver paper too tightly, so it is difficult to retain real talents. Zou Wenhuai, Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, these pillars of the Shaw Brothers back then, all left him as the boss one after another. This is good news for ATV, as long as it is willing to launch a silver bullet offensive, it can poach a group of people.
"But in recent years, Uncle Shao has begun to be generous, scattering money and doing good! Do you know what the reason is?" Zhou Liang Shuyi is very good at grasping people's hearts, and immediately attracted everyone's attention. She looked at everyone looking at her, and then smiled with satisfaction, "In the past few years, Mr. Shao's health has not been good, and he has not improved when he seeks medical advice, so he can only seek a teacher in the end.
A respected old immortal master, after seeing his face, gave a way to crack it, saying that Uncle Shao Liu's waist should not be too thrifty (stingy), otherwise it is easy to be burdened by huge wealth. Only by squandering money and doing good deeds, and adding righteousness to one's body, will the ghosts not dare to be haunted! Uncle Shao Liushu acted according to his instructions, and he was indeed cured from his illness, and he was convinced of it from now on!"
Li Xuan listened to these anecdotes with a smile on his face, no wonder there were Shao Yifu buildings all over the country in later generations, and it turned out that there was still such a thing. Li Xuan felt that if there was really merit, that old immortal master would definitely make no less money.
"Xiao Lisheng, I think that if ATV wants to compete with TVB, it is not enough to rely on TV dramas, and it must also innovate in other programs. No matter how high the ratings of a 30-episode TV series are, it can only be broadcast for a month, and TVB's "Happy Tonight" has been on the air for more than ten years!" Zhou Liang Shuyi seemed to be saying to Li Xuan, but she was actually expressing her own views to others.
She is like a strong dragon crossing the river, joining ATV alone, and she always has to show her talents when she first arrives to be able to control her group of people. In fact, after Li Xuan officially negotiated with her, he gave her several variety show ideas, such as "Who Can Become a Millionaire", which became popular all over the world in later generations, and the longevity variety show "Prize Gate Man" hosted by Zeng Zhiwei on TVB.
Li Xuan is not an expert in this area, but he just gave an outline idea based on the programs he watched in later generations, and the specific operation naturally needs to be handled by an elite talent like Zhou Liang Shuyi.
"There is a sentence that everyone may have heard, it is called knowledge creates wealth! Xiao Li Sheng told me before, a program idea that fits this slogan very well...... "Zhou Liang Shuyi pulled the tiger skin of Li Xuan, the big boss, and briefly introduced the program planning of "Who Can Become a Millionaire" that she filled out according to Li Xuan's ideas.
The people at the table here are all elites in this industry, so they can naturally judge the quality of a show immediately. "Who Can Be a Millionaire" is, to put it bluntly, a quiz contest that uses huge prize money as bait. But the subtlety of it lies in the fact that the all-encompassing topics contain knowledge and interest can attract the elite, and the lure of huge bonuses can attract the people in the market, which can be said to achieve full coverage of the ratings.
Zhou Liang Shuyi took advantage of Li Xuan's idea to immediately set up a strong woman posture for everyone who is not a strong dragon but not a river, so that the people of ATV put away their despisedness.
Li Xuan doesn't mind that ATV's high-level executives are fighting openly and secretly, and only with competition can there be progress, which is conducive to him, the boss, to control the overall situation. Of course, these struggles must not be premised on harming the overall interests of ATV, especially now that ATV still needs to overturn the mountain of TVB that is pressing on its head.
Li Xuan, the boss, was present, and the other tables couldn't let go, so Li Xuan went to each table to toast a glass of wine and then left in advance. ATV's affairs have come to an end for the time being, and the next business is all things that several senior executives of ATV need to contribute, and Li Xuan only looks at their results.
The car drove to the door of Shi Xundao's Li family, Li Xuan looked out the car window and found several bodyguards talking around a few strangers. After he got out of the car, he asked the housekeeper Uncle Liu what was going on.
"Little master, these people outside appeared sneakily on the side of the road in the evening, Zhou Yao took people up to ask, they said that they were relatives of the master, but they couldn't verify it! The master went to the bird house to play mahjong today, and he had a good luck and won a lot of money, so he invited other bird friends to eat, but he didn't pay attention to drinking high!" Uncle Liu explained to Li Xuan in detail.
"Oh, it's already night, even outsiders, there is no place to stay when they go up the mountain, ask someone to arrange for them to go to a hotel in the city to stay first, and then tell my father to deal with it tomorrow when he wakes up!" Li Xuan ordered.
As the saying goes, no one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains. Since the Li family has developed, relatives from all walks of life who can't beat them have come to the door to take refuge. If it is a good person who is really in difficulty, Li Xuan is also willing to help arrange a job, but those who come to the door to take advantage and ask for benefits at a glance, he doesn't mind letting the eldest brother use some thunderous means.
The relationship between Li Xuan's family is actually very simple, grandparents died early, and Li Xuan's father Li Haichuan is the only son in the family and has no brothers. Li Xuan's mother fled from the mainland to Hong Kong in 49, was separated from her family on the way, fainted from hunger and was rescued by her father who went to the city to sell fish on the side of the road. Therefore, the Li family does not have so many real relatives, most of them are distant relatives who have been separated by several generations in the previous fishing village. On the contrary, it was his mother's previously separated relatives, Li Xuan invited a detective agency to look for it, and if he could find it, it would be regarded as fulfilling his mother's wish. (To be continued......)