Chapter 130: Star TV
Early the next morning, Wu Ming couldn't wait to go to Li's TV station under the leadership of his secretary Lu Junxiang.
After making a lot of money in oil futures, many of the development plans that Wu Ming had prepared before could be implemented.
Li's TV station is a very important part of it, and this TV station will be his most important public opinion in Xiangjiang in the future.
Now the Wu family's family property is already the top group in Xiangjiang, but it is still a little lacking in influence, and Li's TV station can just make up for this shortcoming.
And the voice of Leigh, the parent company of Leigh's TV station, happened to lose its investment in Canada some time ago, and it was the time when it was anxious.
In March 1981, in order to fill the financial hole, they transferred 61% of the shares of Leigh's TV station to an Australian consortium for 120 million Hong Kong dollars.
Therefore, Li's voice is still very interested in the acquisition request issued by Wu Ming, a newly promoted wealthy man in Xiangjiang, and they can take the opportunity to throw out Li's TV station, which is a money-losing product.
After a period of negotiations, in November last year, the two sides reached an agreement that Wu Ming would buy 61% of the shares held by Li's voice for HK$150 million.
The reason for the extra 30 million Hong Kong dollars is also that Wu Ming is afraid that he will have long nights and dreams, and he will be intervened by those people in Australia.
In the following period, Wu Ming spent another 100 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire the remaining 39% of the shares, and Li's TV station is now Wu Ming's private TV station.
In the conference room, Wu Ming sat on the main seat and glanced at the many high-level personnel below.
General Manager Huang Xizhao, Mai Danxiong, Li Zhaoxiong, Tu Yongxiong of the "Three Heroes of Li", Xiao Ruoyuan, Xu Xiaoming and other high-level executives all looked at Wu Ming with anxiety.
Wu Ming understood the worries in their hearts after a little thought, so he said with a smile: "You can rest assured, I bought Li's TV station to become bigger and stronger, and I will not remove any employee at will." ”
As soon as these words came out, the big stone in the hearts of Huang Xizhao and others suddenly fell.
Some time ago, because Wu Ming was in the United States, the affairs of Li's TV station were carried out as usual without change.
But they are all worried that after Wu Ming returns, he will go on a big blow to the employees of Li's TV station.
Although Wu Ming's previous cooperative relationship with Li has always been good, it does not mean that Wu Ming will not change after becoming Li's boss.
Now that they have Wu Ming's assurance, the worries in their hearts have finally been eliminated a lot.
Wu Ming then began to recount his plans for the development of Li's television station.
"The name of Li's TV station doesn't sound like the Chinese get the name, the newcomer has a new atmosphere, and in the future, our TV station will be renamed 'Star TV', and the TV station's logo will also be changed. ”
Huang Xizhao and the others all nodded, it was just a name, and they didn't care very much.
Then Wu Mingyou stretched out his hand and pointed to a lady in her thirties sitting next to him.
"This Ms. Zhou Liang Shuyi, I think everyone knows her, she was specially invited by me to serve as the deputy general manager of the TV station. With her, the strength of our Star TV will be even stronger. ”
To discuss the history of the development of the Hong Kong TV circle, Zhou Liang Shuyi is one of the characters that cannot be bypassed.
In the 70s, she worked as a TV producer on TVB.
In 1978, she moved from TVB to Jiashi and took with her a large number of important TVB staff, including Liu Tianci (assistant general manager and creative supervisor), Shi Shaoming (program director), Lu Guozhan (program promotion director), Ye Jiexin (production director), Lin Xuhua (data collection manager).
There are also many famous artists and choreographers who also jumped ship with her.
It's a pity that Jiashi's own defects are too big, even if Zhou Liang Shuyi tried her best, she once let Jiashi overwhelm Wireless and Li, forcing them to join forces to deal with Jiashi, but they still can't recover the situation of failure.
With the collapse of Jiashi, Jiashi's employees went their separate ways, and Zhou Liang Shuyi also temporarily withdrew from the TV circle.
In order to make Star TV the No. 1 TV station in Xiangjiang, Wu Ming has thought of many ways, including poaching people from wireless.
However, the military spirit of wireless is still very stable, and it is more difficult to poach people.
At this time, he thought of Zhou Liang Shuyi, so he sent someone to invite her out of the mountain.
Although Zhou Liang Shuyi temporarily withdrew from the TV circle, she has always been very concerned about this industry, and after getting some promises from Wu Ming, she gladly accepted the invitation.
For the joining of the elite of Zhou Liang Shuyi, everyone is still relatively welcome.
Huang Xizhao smiled: "Mrs. Zhou's name is well-known, with Mrs. Zhou's joining, presumably our Star TV will soon be able to surpass wireless." ”
Zhou Liang Shuyi said modestly when she heard this: "Where, Star TV has today's achievements, but thanks to Huang Sheng, I will have to ask Huang Sheng for more support in the future." ”
Seeing that everyone did not object, Wu Ming continued to explain his plan below.
"In addition, I will split the staff of Star TV. Among them, the artists were separated and a special brokerage company was established to manage them. The TV drama shooting department was also separated and merged into the DreamWorks Film and Television Entertainment Company, which I founded, to separate production and broadcasting.
The music department was also spun off and merged into Starlight Records, which I founded. Star TV only left two production departments, news and variety. After streamlining the organization, Star TV can devote all its energy to these two directions, keep improving, and don't have to worry about other things. ”
This time, Wu Ming returned to Xiangjiang and was ready to show his strength in the entertainment industry, so after acquiring Li, he successively established three companies: Galaxy Brokerage Company, DreamWorks Film and Television Entertainment Company, and Starlight Records.
In order to develop these companies, Wu Ming also deliberately brought a group of key personnel from the CAA agency in the United States and Luen Mei Pictures. I want to bring in the advanced system of the United States.
When Wu Ming finished his plan, except for Zhou Liang Shuyi, everyone else widened their eyes and looked at Wu Ming in great astonishment.
They thought about how Wu Ming would reform Star TV, but they never thought that Wu Ming would separate all other departments, leaving only news and variety shows.
TV stations in this era all produce their own TV dramas and have never purchased them externally.
It was not until 1982 that the separation of production and broadcasting was first implemented in the United Kingdom. It was only after the 90s that it slowly became popular in the world.
Wu Ming's plan was too shocking to them.
Zhou Liang Shuyi looked at everyone stunned, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
When she was on the phone, she was also taken aback by Wu Ming's idea. However, after Wu Ming's careful explanation, she agreed with Wu Ming's point of view.
The separation of production and broadcasting system can indeed make the division of labor clearer, and TV stations can better focus on the production of news programs and variety shows.