Meng Chao's two major companies, including Genesis Film Company and Century Note Records, have developed rapidly and have a strong ability to attract money.

For this reason, the scale is also increasing day by day, and soon the company's membership is also growing!

But from time to time, though, people will still come and people will leave.

Therefore, as the boss, Mr. Meng is not able to recognize all the employees, for example, on this day, Meng Chao happened to have a meeting at Century Note Records to plan the production of the second album of the BEYOND band "Sea and Sky", and found a very ordinary employee.

So Meng Chao leaned in and asked, "Young man, are you quite energetic?" What's the name? ”

Obviously, Meng Chao's eyes had a bit of ridicule and appreciation, which made the young man feel a little flattered: "Mr. Meng is good, my name is Wu Zongxian." ”

In Meng Chao's devoured memory, there is content about variety shows, if you want to talk about the most famous variety shows in the entire nineties, then Xiangjiang's "Super Invincible Award Doorman" and Wanwan's "Super Sunday" and "I Guess I Guess" can be regarded as among the best.

In the two programs in Wanwan, Wu Zongxian is one of the hosts, his hosting style is very interesting, he is smart and smooth-headed, and his mouth is cheap and flexible, and he has a bit of Zeng Zhiwei's feeling, so Meng Chao is very impressed.

Therefore, when he saw Wu Zongxian appear in his company, Meng Chao felt very interesting.

At this time, Wu Zongxian was still a poor boy, and he traveled through many first-tier cities such as Taipei, Xiangjiang, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and finally heard the myth of Meng Chao's overnight fame when he was in Yanjing, so he applied for Meng Chao's Century Note Record Company.

Obviously, the young Wu Zongxian still has a dream of being a star and wants to become famous once, so he nests in Meng Chao's company just to wait for the opportunity to become a singer, and Lao Wu, who doesn't know him so well at this time, didn't think of being the host of a variety show at all.

"Young man, can you sing?"

Hearing Mr. Meng's enthusiastic and approachable attitude, Wu Zongxian felt that the goddess of luck was taking care of him, so he hurriedly said: "I know a little, I like Mr. Meng's songs very much, I will sing Mr. Meng's song "Travel" on the Youth Innovation Competition, I will sing it to you?" ”

Meng Chao nodded and gave him a chance to express his expression: "Sing!" ”

As a result, Wu Zongxian took the opportunity to show his hand, I have to say that he can sing, but he is only okay, and he is not so qualified to become a professional singer.

However, Meng Chao was ready to give him a chance: "It's not bad, do you want to make a record?" ”

Wu Zongxian felt that he was so happy that he was about to go to heaven, and hurriedly nodded and said, "Of course I want to, thank you Mr. Meng for taking care of me!" ”

Meng Chao smiled: "I'll write you two songs after a while, and the company will help you release a record at that time." ”

……

Wu Zongxian's experience in the music world can be described in five words - celebrities are not popular.

In fact, he still has many masterpieces, such as "Rooftop", "Is It Only On Such a Night Will You Think of Me Like This", "Stupid Child", "You Are Happier Than Before".

It's just that he was so good as a host later that many people forgot that he also made his debut as a singer.

And Meng Chao naturally couldn't do his entire music EP, but he chose the two songs "Is It Only On Such a Night That You Think of Me Like This" and "You're Happier Than Before" for him as the title song, and the remaining five songs were handed over to the professional songwriters in Century Note to create.

Meng Chao's purpose is not to make Wu Zongxian popular and become a singer, but just to let him see his own skills first.

As for the reason for this, it is natural to sign Wu Zongxian, this very funny guy can meet the needs of many of his movies and variety shows, and even sometimes he can use it when doing publicity.

Soon Wu Zongxian signed an eight-year contract with Meng Chao for Century Note Records and Genesis Film Company, and officially became Meng Chao's artist.

And this artist has not finished his EP yet, but it was quickly put to use.

"Running Brothers", which cooperated with CCTV, has been broadcast since July 1st, and has now shown eight episodes, with less than five episodes left, and the overall average rating is as high as 18%, which also makes CCTV's leaders regard Meng Chao as a guest.

Soon CCTV hoped to start a second round of cooperation with Meng Chao, but "Run, Brother" did not plan to shoot the second season so soon, so Meng Chao's partner in CCTV, Hong Guang, hoped that Meng Chao could come up with a new variety show.

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September 12, 1986.

The crew of "Dao Ma Dan" ushered in the visiting staff, this time it was not a peer in the film industry, but Hong Guang, a famous program director from CCTV.

In addition to visiting the filming crew of the movie, Hong Guang's ultimate goal this time was naturally to talk to Meng Chao about the program system.

CCTV naturally has no shortage of program planning and production people, but in the past two years, because local satellite TV's variety shows have begun to develop, CCTV's variety show ratings share has begun to be divided, and this year, except for a youth innovation competition and "Run, Brother", they have not had an average rating of more than 10% of other variety shows.

The high ratings of the Youth Innovation Competition are also driven by Meng Chao, so CCTV naturally regards Meng Chao as a ratings elixir, and if you want to crush other local satellite TV in the production of variety shows, you need to rely on Meng Chao's strength, so Hong Guang is a three-way thatched house and came to Meng Chaoshan.

"Boss Meng is getting busier and busier."

When Meng Chao saw Hong Guang coming to visit the class, he couldn't help but stop filming temporarily, and everyone rested for a while.

"Director Hong laughed, and he was a little busier in the past two days."

After the two chatted for a while, Hong Guang quickly entered the topic: "Boss Meng, you also know that the average ratings of our cooperation "Running Brother" are not inferior to the Youth Innovation Competition, plus it has been broadcast almost now, but you don't seem to have the opportunity to make new variety shows, our CCTV leaders still hope that you can continue to produce variety shows, after all, you are a genius in this area, don't waste your talent......"

Hong Guang held Meng Chao very high, but this was said to the accompanying CCTV leaders, in private, he and Meng Chao were actually wearing a pair of pants, Meng Chao promised to give him a small part of the shares of Century Note Records, although it is not much, but Century Note is developing so fast now, and with CCTV's promotion of its singers, it is generally a number that makes Hong Guang very tempted!

"Has CCTV ever thought of doing a variety show that combines quizzes and interviews?"