Chapter 14: Leigh's TV

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The news of Li Xiaohe's critical illness spread, TVB was calm on the surface, the supreme board of directors carried out a silent reshuffle of rights, and the three major factions of British, American, and Chinese-funded did not give in to each other, fighting openly and secretly, and finally Run Run Shaw made a move to get a trick, not only got the support of the Li family, but also flexibly used the internal contradictions of British and American capital to repurchase a large number of shares, and the equity in his hand soared from 11% to 30%, becoming the largest shareholder of TVB!

Wireless is brewing a reorganization of rights, and the TV station opposite Jiali is not idle, and the high-level leaders gathered together to discuss how to use this opportunity to block wireless. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In 1975, Huang Xizhao served as the general manager of "Li's TV", he was also the first Chinese general manager of Li, before that, the TV station was the world of ghosts, after Huang Xizhao took office, he boldly used Chinese and newcomers, and discovered a group of young and strong production talents, such as Mai Dangxiong, Li Zhaoxiong, Tu Yongxiong, nicknamed "The Holy Hand of Screenwriters", Xiao Ruoyuan, and Xu Xiaoming, a genius, etc.

Huang Xizhao's group of cutting-edge minds are flexible, capable of doing things, and each gathered a part of the people, like a snowball to expand the TV station, at that time, "Li" out of many talents, strong horses, Huang Xizhao took the opportunity to propose personnel restructuring to the parent company, by him as the executive director of the board of directors and the general manager of the TV station, after thoroughly grasping the real power, he began to brew a strategy to block wireless and Jiayi.

At that time, wireless was dominant, variety shows, unit dramas and other programs had the highest ratings, and the prime time was also specially used to broadcast "Happy Tonight", and Li's people invented the use of long-form dramas to play variety shows, and the 88 episodes of "Crocodile Tears" were broadcast at 9 o'clock-10 o'clock, and the famous variety show "Happy Tonight" specializing in wireless was defeated, and the wireless 8-9 o'clock unit programs collapsed, and all unit dramas were cut in half.

In a short period of time, all the big-name stars of wireless Zheng Shaoqiu, Zhao Yuzhi, Wang Mingquan, etc. were gathered to shoot "Chu Liuxiang" to fight, and gained the upper hand in a short time, Xu Xiaoming and others wrote and directed the "Earth Kindness" series, which was ranked at 7 o'clock-8 o'clock, and was used to play the "Jade Theater" of wireless, which made the "Jade Theater" go out of business, and there was no Jade Theater for wireless since then.

Even Zheng Shaoqiu and Zheng Yuling's long drama "Rotation" was cut in half without hesitation by Wireless, and Xie Xian filmed "The King of a Thousand Kings" to fight back.

Under Li's strong and powerful attack, Wireless's "Dragon and Tiger Double Dominance" was once again beaten in half, the difference is that under the attack of Li's overwhelming strength of the feature-length series, Wireless was finally beaten without the power to fight back.

It was in this context that "Shanghi Beach" was born, swept all the beautiful TV episodes, poured a basin of cold water on the heads of Huang Xizhao and others, and watched the ratings of "Shanghi Beach" break 40, 50, and 60, as if it was opened, and finally broke the ratings record since the opening of Hong Kong, and Li's proud long-form drama series was unexpectedly vulnerable.

Everyone thinks that Li's is waiting, waiting for the end of "Shanghi Beach" to fight back, only Wang Zifan knows that this situation will not last long, if Li's persistence for a few more years may be able to defeat wireless, at least the later ATV days will not be so difficult, but these are regrets after all, Li's defeat, not Huang Xizhao and others are responsible, but Li's parent company's investment failed, and it was sold to the Australian Gang, which made the company's rights change, after Li's TV was acquired by an Australian consortium, General Manager Huang Xizhao resigned, and his subordinates Mai Dangxiong, Xiao Ruoyuan and Huang Taise resigned and left together, Xu Xiaoming left first and then turned back and was taken over by Qiu Degen.

Of course, now it is still Huang Xi who is beautiful in the world, and I saw striding into the conference room, where all the elites of Li gathered, everyone talked and laughed, the atmosphere was harmonious, and he was not panicked or scared because of his arrival.

Huang Xizhao coughed twice, and said with a smile: "Everyone came early, it's not time to go to work yet!"

Mai Dangxiong stood up and laughed loudly: "I heard that the old ghost of wireless is hospitalized, who can stay still!"

Xiao Ruoyuan pulled him to sit down and persuaded: "I said Lao Mai, everyone is a Sven, pay attention to what you say!"

Huang Xizhao nodded and said: "That's right, although we are competitors, we are engaged in healthy competition, even if there are occasional conflicts, they are within the controllable range, the more at this time, the more you can't carry out personal attacks!"

The muscles on Mai Dangxiong's face trembled, and with a sneering expression, it was very terrifying.

Li Zhaoxiong said with a smile: "Lao Mai, the general manager is right, whether it is within us or with wireless, there is competition, and the competition is also benign, everyone is competing for the program, competing for creativity, and taking the best program for the audience to see, but this time I won, and he will win the next one." ”

Mai Dangxiong said unruly: "Okay, don't catch anyone and teach a few lessons, I don't understand what you said 'benign', I only know that I have to defeat wireless, so that I can be worthy of the general manager!"

Li Zhaoxiong is a literati temper, and said in his heart: "You are also a director, how can you not understand, let me give you an example, just like when you kick the gym, there is no reason for you to always win, you will eventually meet a master one day, but you have been mentally prepared, you must meet that master, if you are not defeated, you may not grow, you lose, you find out the true meaning, why you lose, you will improve, every time you win, once in a while you will meet a master you will be bad." ”

Xiao Ruoyuan said: "Everyone don't say a word, listen to the general manager's arrangement!"

Hearing his partner's persuasion, Mai Dangxiong pinched his nose and sighed, he has a community background, which is not a secret in the circle, compared to the previous muddy nightmare, the current life makes him cherish it more, so he wants to desperately repay Huang Xizhao's kindness.

"Okay, let's talk about wireless, "Shang Hi Tan" is about to finish, do you have any ideas?" Huang Xizhao also stopped his subordinates from arguing, Mai Dangxiong is his right-hand man, and sometimes even he has to admire his boldness and rampantness.

In 1974, he started filming "Ten Strange Cases" and successfully threatened wireless, and then started filming "Big Husband", "Jaws", "Crocodile Tears", "Silkworm Transformation" and other TV series, all of which have achieved good results, and are regarded as strong rivals by wireless.

Mai Dangxiong patted the table and said: "Just imitate "Shanghi Beach" to make a Republic of China drama!"

Huang Xizhao's eyes lit up and praised: "This idea is good, there are only more than 20 episodes of "Shanghi Beach", let's shoot a 70-episode episode!"

Li Zhaoxiong took the initiative to take over the task and said: "I'll write the script!"

Huang Xizhao personally ordered: "Xiaoming, you also go to help, this drama is supervised by you!"

Xu Xiaoming, who was sitting in the corner, heard this, nodded and said, "Okay!"

Huang Xizhao suddenly became distracted, thinking: Xu Xiaoming is modest and cautious, does not fight uncertain battles, Mai Dangxiong is arrogant and boundless, his eyes are empty, if the two of them neutralize their personalities, Na Li's will be like a tiger, he shook his head secretly, and continued: "According to reliable sources, the chairman of the wireless board of directors, Li Xiaohe, is critically ill, and Sir Run Run Shaw of the Brothers is most likely to take over the post of chairman, everyone must be mentally prepared, this Run Run Shaw is not easy to deal with!"

Mai Dangxiong said proudly: "What kind of jazz, it's not that it has been put on the table by Jiahe." ”

Huang Xizhao said: "If you don't get rid of this problem, sooner or later you will suffer!"

Mai Dangxiong showed a disapproving expression, he is now brewing an unprecedented big move, the wireless cutting-edge prince reminds him that he can shoot on Hi Beach, so why can't he shoot his previous gangster life, hundreds of thousands of old boys in Hong Kong, someone must watch it when it is filmed, who will look down on him at that time!

Huang Xi looked at Xiao Ruoyuan and played with the taste: "You have worked in wireless before, check the details of that prince fan, now Li Xiaohe is critically ill, he has no backer in wireless, can you pass our beauty!"

"No problem!" Xiao Ruoyuan nodded and agreed, he was very interested in Wang Zifan, he has written a lot of scripts since he entered the industry, and he has also won the nickname of 'Screenwriter Holy Hand', his reputation is big enough, but the manuscript fee does not add up to 100,000, and now a newcomer who has just debuted actually gets 200,000, how can he be embarrassed?

Huang Xizhao said with a smile: "Okay, the Monday meeting will be here, everyone should be busy." ”