Chapter 18: New Challenges
"Is it? The third uncle is so powerful, why do you want to come and mix with these shabby hotels at home?" said a young man about the same age as Fan Cheng on the side.
In front of this person is Fan Cheng's second brother Fan Zhi and his wife, and this young man is of course Fan Zhi's son, Fan Mingming, the eldest grandson of the Fan family.
Fan Mingming and Fan Cheng's younger brother Fan Zheng were both born in nineties, but because of their seniority, he can only be called Uncle Fan Cheng Fan Zheng, but this kid has no respect for the two little uncles, and is usually lawless in the Fan family with the connivance of his parents.
Fan Cheng didn't bother to talk to him, but said hello to his younger brother Fan Zheng who was sitting on the edge of the living room, and came to his father's side.
"Dad. Fan Cheng half-knelt beside his father and shouted.
Fan Cheng ...... You've changed. Father sat there on crutches.
"People have to grow. Fan Cheng said.
"Yes, if you don't grow, you'll be bullied to death. Fan Zheng followed Fan Cheng and said.
"Hahaha, it seems that the third and fourth have a great opinion of us. Fange said with a smile.
"Fan Cheng, didn't you divide it before? You two are still young, and you haven't done any specific business work, not to mention that you still have studies, even if you take the hotel, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do well, right?" the old man asked.
Indeed, in the previous distribution of the family, age was the biggest weakness of the two.
"My hotels have recently turned around and we don't want all of them. Fan Cheng explained.
"It's true that you've turned a profit, but is that because of your ability to run a hotel? It's just because you can do it with your ability to produce a TV show?" Fan Mingming said.
Fan Cheng glanced at Fan Mingming and said, "As long as you can make money, wouldn't it be good?"
As far as I know, you've spent a lot of money on these three episodes, right? Counting this money, the hotel can't be considered profitable at all. Fan Mingming said.
"Since you want to calculate the revenue of the hotel and the TV station together, should some of the money I earn from the hotel in these episodes be counted as the income of the TV station?" asked Fan Cheng.
At this time, Fan Zhi continued: "It is true that thanks to Fan Cheng's program in the past few weeks, the occupancy rate of my hotel has become popular across the board, but if you want to make more money, Fan Cheng's hotels may have increased a lot of popularity, but the few hotels in our hands originally had an occupancy rate of more than 90%, from 90% to 100%, which is actually less than a 10% increase." β
"Less than 10%?" Fan Cheng had no smile on his face, whether he was in his previous life or Fan Cheng in this world, he was not the kind of person who would swallow his anger, be false and wrong, right is right, wrong is wrong, he doesn't want it if it's not his own, but it should be his own thing, he will never let it out.
"Is 90% occupancy rate the same concept as 100% occupancy rate? 90% because you can only achieve 90%, 100% because we only have so many rooms!
"Of course we don't just think about the present, but the increase in occupancy is mainly because of your show, and you have the audacity to add rooms, what if you don't produce a show in the future? and...... I'm also worried about whether your show production will be able to sustain this level forever. Fan Zheng explained.
At this time, Fan Lifu spoke: "Okay, don't argue, Fan Cheng, I know that you have done a few episodes of the show recently, but how much investment is there in these episodes?"
Fan Cheng has broadcast three episodes of the program so far, the first phase of the early morning whole person investment is very small, basically only the money to rent shooting equipment, the second phase of kiss patience has more investment in the set, but the key is that in the third phase, a variety of whole person arrangements are all money, and some money is even spent silently.
For example, Wang Xingxing opened the door and was doused with water, Fan Cheng took the film crew to fix hundreds of kilograms of water with plastic bags above the gate, because of lack of experience, they even failed twice in the installation process, wasting a lot of time and money in vain.
"The three episodes of the show together cost about 50,000 yuan. Fan Cheng said.
"Fifty thousand!?, just those three episodes!?" Fan Mingming shouted.
"50,000 is already very little, and in other TV stations, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of budgets for a variety show. Fan Cheng said.
The investment of hundreds of thousands of millions is just a regular variety show.
"You also said that it is another TV station, don't you know what our own TV station is like, Uncle San? Is it worth investing 50,000 yuan in three episodes of the Narauszi program? Oh, not only three episodes, but the fourth episode will be broadcast soon, right? The investment in this episode of the program will definitely not be less!" Fan Mingming said loudly.
Fan Boss Fan Ge said: "50,000 is indeed a bit much, although the profit of the hotel in the past three weeks is very good, but most of the investment of 50,000 yuan is the third episode of the program, if you can do more of the first two episodes of the program The small investment can also ensure the occupancy rate, I am still very only the third." β
This is really high-sounding, I don't want to spend a penny and I want a good show to increase the ratings, there are once and twice such good things in the world, and I want more times?
"Even if you have any plans for the future, it's a matter of the future, what are you going to do now? Can the investment in these episodes of the show be recovered from the money earned by the hotel?" asked the second brother, Fan Zhi.
Fan Mingming is still making up for it: "There is also an agreement on the occupancy rate, as far as I know, the occupancy rate of several hotels under your command has not reached 100%, right?"
"What??didn't reach it!?How could it be!?" Fan Xiaoqian shouted out in surprise, Fan's Hotel is supposed to have reached the full occupancy rate early, why did it come to the last day, but it was revealed that the occupancy rate did not meet the standard?
Fan Xiaoqian wanted to say that I didn't believe it, but looking at the silent Fan Cheng, she couldn't say that sentence.
"Third uncle, is this true?" asked Fan Xiaoqian.
Fan Cheng gave Fan Xiaoqian a reassuring look and looked at his watch and said, "It's almost time, the show will start soon, come and see my fourth episode." β
"When is it time to care about that show?" Fan Mingming scoffed.
"What's the hurry, watch the show first, after watching this episode, many answers will be announced. Fan Cheng said.
He said so, and the rest of the Fan family didn't say anything, and everyone sat in front of the TV, patiently waiting for the start of the new program.
Not only the Fan family, in fact, the entire Fan Family Hotel, and even all over the country, are looking forward to the official broadcast of the show.
During this week, although the broadcast contract was not negotiated with the provincial TV station, in the negotiation with the Northern Group, in order to better observe the effect of the program, the Northern Group gave Fan Cheng another broadcast resource.
Northern TV is the northern group's own channel,The main forces in the three northern provinces of the northern TV,Its own channel can be broadcast in the three northern provinces,Outside the three northern provinces,The northern group with cinemas,There are only a few small theaters in many cities outside the north,These theaters use their own big screens to broadcast Fan Chengxin's program that night,The price of the ticket is only five yuanγ
The live broadcast of the three northern provinces plus the live broadcast of the cinema is not very large, and the viewership is far less than the national broadcast, but compared with the previous episodes, only 20 hotels of the Fan family can see the program at the same time, and the number of people who see the program at the same time is very high.
"Dad, have you seen the show I produced before?" asked Fan Cheng as he knelt down beside his father.
"Well, I've seen some. Fan Lifu said.
"Your dad hasn't watched some of it, especially last week's show, and he couldn't sleep until the wee hours of the morning laughing that night. Rao Yingtong said on the side.
Fan Ge glanced at his mother dissatisfied, Rao Yingtong's words were a little towards Fan Cheng.
"It's not good to affect your sleep, but don't worry, today's show is not funny, you will have a good night's sleep. Fan Cheng said.
Soon, the show began.
As in the previous show, Fan Cheng's body part below the neck appeared in the camera.
"Didn't you appear in the third episode, why did you return to this form of not appearing on the camera again?" Fan Lifu asked Fan Cheng beside him.
"I'm just the producer of the show, and the key to a show is the performers in front of the camera, not the producers like me. Fan Cheng explained.
"You've really grown up, I thought you couldn't look down on the level of the TV station at home. Fan Lifu said with emotion.
Indeed, Fan Cheng couldn't say such mature words in the past, he was very ignorant and self-centered in the past, and he didn't think about such complicated issues at all.
"No matter how small a show is, it's still a show, I may have been a little unlearned in the past, but now I don't think like that, no matter how small the show is, I will do my best to produce it. Fan Cheng said.
Fan Lifu nodded with satisfaction, the third son's performance today was simply too surprising to him.
At this time, Fan Cheng also began to introduce the fourth episode of the program on TV.
"Welcome to the new week, this time, I tried to make a completely different episode, I hope you enjoy it. β
With his voice, the camera changed, and Wang Xingxing and Wan Hong appeared in the camera again.
"What's the matter? We've reconciled, and we still have to do a show?" Wan Hong asked with surprise and suspicion as she looked at the camera lens.
"Yes, I have no problem with Sister Hong, and I won't be provoked by you to do a whole person show anymore!" Wang Xingxing also said.
Fan Cheng, who was carrying the camera, didn't seem to be ready to let the two go, he said to the two: "You are reconciled, but I haven't avenged the revenge you took for pushing me off the inkwell before! This time, I have prepared a new challenge for you!"
"A new challenge, what if we don't agree?" Wang Xingxing asked.
"This is not a choice for you!" Fan Cheng had just finished speaking, and several extras of five big and three rough ran out and surrounded the two.
"What are you going to do!?" Wan Hong asked in disbelief.
"Send them into the room!" At Fan Cheng's command, Wang Xingxing and Wan Hong were forced into a room.