Chapter XVII. Commercial Radio
With the progress of learning every day, Wang Zheng felt that it was time to start implementing his plan, and it was time to come in handy after planning for so long.
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At No. 30 Broadcasting Road, Kowloon City, in an office of the business department on the 5th floor of the Broadcasting Building, Wang Zheng sat on the sofa, and a teacup on the table was steaming lightly.
Across the table sat a middle-aged man, with no black-rimmed glasses on his face, holding a stack of papers in his hand and slowly flipping through them, looking carefully and slowly.
After half an hour, the middle-aged man raised his head, held the glasses on his nose and said, "Mr. Wang, the novel Ghost Blows the Lantern is very good and attractive, I can be the master to buy this novel, what are your requirements for the price?"
Wang Zheng picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, and said lightly: "The price is not in a hurry, I want to ask Manager Chen, when will your station broadcast this novel." There is also the fact that this novel is only sold to your voice copyright. ”
Manager Chen frowned slightly and said, "What time period to play needs to be discussed with the leaders of the station before it can be decided." ”
Manager Chen thought to himself that this kid was so young, and he wanted to buy out this novel directly at a high price, but now it seems that the other party is not just a fledgling.
He put away his contempt and said, "Then how does Mr. Wang want to cooperate?"
Wang Zheng noticed the change in his expression and said, "It's very simple, your station will set up a time slot for me to anchor this novel, and the time slot can be between ten and twelve o'clock in the evening, and I will broadcast it in Chinese." ”
Manager Chen didn't think about it and said: "This is unlikely, our time slots are arranged, and it takes time to coordinate the broadcast of other programs, and I can't be the master of broadcasting this in Chinese." ”
Wang Zheng smiled slightly and said: "I think you don't have to think about the problem of Chinese broadcasting, the Shaolin Temple released this year is a Chinese film made in the mainland, and the box office has reached 16 million, which has broken the box office record of Xiangjiang action movies." As for the time slot, we can communicate, just give me 40 minutes a day, don't worry about my anchor ability, this book was written by me, I know best how to change each tone word, you can listen to my recorded sound first. After speaking, Wang Zheng took out a recording player from his pocket, opened it and played it.
After listening to Wang Zheng's recording, Manager Chen straightened his tie and said, "I have to discuss it with the leaders of the station, Mr. Wang, you wait for a while." ”
After speaking, he walked out with the manuscript of the novel, Wang Zheng sat on the sofa and drank tea leisurely, the story was so popular in his previous life, he was not worried that the commercial radio station would not agree, before he came, he also did his homework and checked the historical programs of the Xiangjiang commercial radio, among which there were several programs based on anchor novels, which were very popular with the citizens of Xiangjiang.
didn't let Wang Zheng wait longer, more than 20 minutes later, Manager Chen walked in with a big fat man with a round face, Manager Chen introduced: "Mr. Wang, I've kept you waiting, this is Director Lu in our station." ”
Wang Zheng got up and shook hands with Director Lu, who said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, hello, we will talk about your request later, let's talk about the novel first." ”
The three of them sat down again, and Director Lu continued: "How many words are there in the later novels, and how many episodes are there if Mr. Wang says that an episode of 40 minutes is used?"
Wang Zheng replied: "The total novel is about 800,000 words, and the speed of speech is slow to broadcast this kind of suspense novel, which is expected to be about 100 episodes." ”
Director Lu thought for a while: "There is no problem with the others, how much is Mr. Wang going to sell for an episode?"
Wang Zheng thought about it for a while, and according to the price of Xiangjiang and the price of a song at this time, the copyright of audio novels would not be too high, so he said: "I don't have any concept of this, let's make a price for Director Lu." ”
“500。 "Director Lu made an offer.
“1000。 Wang Zheng raised the price.
Director Lu: "600." ”
Wang Zheng: "900." ”
Director Lu: "700." ”
Wang Zheng: "800." ”
Chief Lu: "750." ”
Wang Zheng: "Deal." ”
The two immediately shook hands, and Lu Taichang said: "Happy cooperation, we will divide 40 minutes in "Today's Story", and the time is set at 11:20 to 0:00 in the evening. What do you think. ”
Wang Zheng nodded: "No problem." ”
Director Lu twisted his fat ass and said: "Let's prepare the contract first, and hope that Mr. Wang can bring over the other manuscripts tomorrow and sign the contract, because it is a story that happened in the mainland, and some sensitive things need to be deleted, what does Mr. Wang think?"
Wang Zheng: "Yes, after 50 episodes are broadcast in Taiwan, I will publish the first volume of this novel." ”
Director Lu nodded in agreement: "No problem." ”
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The next day
Commercial Radio Building, the same office, Wang Zheng took the contract and looked at it carefully, looking at it very slowly and seriously. I saw that the payment method was 30% cash down payment after signing the contract, 30% cash payment after the program was broadcast to 70%, and the remaining 40% after the program was broadcast. Wang Zheng saw that there were no loopholes, so he signed his name.
Lu Tai's round face was full of smiles: "Where is Mr. Wang, is he interested in staying in our radio station as a broadcast host?" ”
Wang Zheng shook his head: "Thank you, Director Lu, for your kindness, but I am now studying in the wireless artist training class, and I have never thought about being a radio host." ”
"That's a pity, when Mr. Wang comes out of the artist training class, the future is immeasurable. Director Lu looked pity.
Wang Zheng really didn't want to be a long-term radio host, he practiced for more than a year for this novel to be broadcast by himself, and now he can memorize the novel, and I hope this novel that is a little different from the original book will not be affected.
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In HSBC, Wang Zheng was holding a cash check for 22,500 yuan, ready to save him and open an account by the way. This is the first pot of gold that he came to this world, and Wang Zheng has two purposes for publishing a novel on the radio, the first is to promote authentic Mandarin, rather than the Taiwanese accent, and the second is to build momentum for the later novels and movies.
Deposit money into a newly opened account, the beautiful salesman with a professional smile, not belittled or raised, the kind of person who despises saving a lot of money and kneels and licks it Wang Zheng has only seen it in novels.
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30 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Heaven and Earth Library.
The middle-aged literati sitting in front of Wang Zheng wore gold-rimmed glasses, named Li Shidao, deputy general manager of the Tiandi Library, and he was also looking through the manuscripts that Wang Zheng had specially copied.
This book company is good, and during such a sensitive period in 1978, it published a collection of essays by mainland writers, "Heaven and Earth Essays", and Wang Zheng also came to admire it.
Li Shidao put down the manuscript: "Mr. Wang, the book is good, what do you think about the publishing right?"
Wang Zheng said directly: "The profit is halved, and I will only hand it over to you for publication." ”
Li Shidao replied: "This is impossible. ”
Wang Zheng directly threw the contract of Xiangjiang Commercial Radio to him.
Li Shidao hesitated: "But we need to open sales channels and develop new channels with a lot of money." ”
Wang Zheng waved his hand: "I will make a movie with a ghost blowing the lamp within a year, which can be written into the contract." ”
Seeing that he was still hesitating, Wang Zheng had no choice but to take out his hole cards: "I can write an extra, this is considered to avoid giving away, if you hesitate, I will find other publishing houses to cooperate." ”
Now Li Shidao didn't pretend: "Deal." ”
After signing the contract, all the manuscripts had to be taken to the third review, and this was handed over to Li Shidao to handle, and he had to go to a commercial radio station from tomorrow to start a life as a radio host.